PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Contact: Dan Shea Thursday, May 16, 2013 503-750-7649 Guantanamo Hunger Strike/Vigil Begins Today at 3:00 PM in front of Portland City Hall (Look for a large colorful banner and people wearing prison-style orange jumpsuits.) Seventy-one-year-old S. Brian Willson, a Viet Nam veteran member of Veterans For Peace, Portland Chapter [...]
The U.S. decision to artificially divide an ancient homogenous Korea upon the surrender of the Japanese, August 15, 1945, and the subsequent U.S.-directed reign of terror, 1945-1948, that led directly to the war of national independence against western imperialist intervention, 1948-1950, and then, consequently, the hot war, 1950-1953, to be followed by extensive periods of [...]
February 13, 2013 – 3:17 pm
By S. Brian Willson, June 2002, Revised October 2006 [First published in Global Outlook, Issue # 2, Summer 2002, later modified & published on global research website: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WIL20061012&articleId=3464] USAF Strategic Air Command head General Curtis LeMay remarked, “Over a period of three years or so we killed off – what – twenty percent of the [...]
January 12, 2013 – 1:55 pm
The horror created by the chronic pattern of US domestic and international violence is beyond the scope of any solution that can be alleviated through legislation. The psychological roots of our national obsession with violence reside in our origins as a culture derived from the rationalized forceful dispossession of hundreds of Indigenous nations whose people [...]
December 9, 2012 – 9:53 pm
PORTLAND, OR December 7, 2012–Members of Right 2 Dream Too and supporters will hold a press conference and rally at Portland City Hall at 10am on Monday, December 10, United Nations Human Rights Day. Right 2 Dream Too has maintained a self-sustaining rest area for people who are houseless at NW 4th and Burnside since [...]
