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So You Got Teargassed? Herbal Self-Care After Exposure to Chemical Weapons

by Missy Rohs

If 2020 brought anything to my hometown of Portland, Oregon, it was the opportunity to be exposed to chemical weapons. Protesters, residents both housed and unhoused, bystanders, and workers throughout the city have been caught off guard by law enforcement’s prolific deployment of tear gas, … Read more

Categories 2020 Uprising, Perspectives, Perspectives' Power

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Dispatch from Portland’s Protests

by Sarah Mirk

 

Sarah Mirk is a comics journalist, author, and teacher. She works as an editor at The Nib and as a digital producer for Reveal. Her most recent book is Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison, available here. This is her documentation of the … Read more

Categories 2020 Uprising, Perspectives, Perspectives' Power
A women overcome with emotion raises a clenched fist in solidarity with protestors while a women next to her applauds.

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Sustain the Riot: From “Defund the Police” to Revolutionary Abolitionism after the George Floyd Uprisings

By Justin A. Lang

 

“Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.” — George Jackson, Blood in My Eye   “A politics of abolition could never finally be … Read more

Categories 2020 Uprising, Perspectives

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This is How We Heal

by Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn

This essay was written collaboratively by two Portland protest community members, Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexy Kahn, and is the result of conversations after participating in protests, both as frontline protestors and as writers and journalists. Throughout the article, we switch italicized and non-italicized fonts (Lexy in … Read more

Categories 2020 Uprising, Perspectives 1 Comment

New Year’s Eve // Portland, Oregon

Photos by Maranie Rae

All photos and words by Maranie Rae [she/her] New Year’s Eve 2021 in Portland, Oregon was a night that saw Federal officers respond to protesters with teargas and less-lethal weapons and one that led Mayor Ted Wheeler to promise to “push the limits of law … Read more

Categories 2020 Uprising

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