Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
PCASC and our friends at PCHRP (Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines) On Saturday, January 3, PCASC joined with the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign and other organizations to urge Sen. Ron Wyden to abandon his support for fast tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Fast tracking could further limit debate and hasten the passage …
PCASC is proud to release our Spring 2013 issue of La Lucha Solidaria!
This green-washing of capitalism is not going to solve the global climate crisis, protect our communities from harm, or manage our common resources. Most importantly though, Rio+20 has made it clear that a Green Economy is not a transitional demand toward systemic environmental change.
Civil disobedience has halted production at Mexico’s “top grade producer of silver.”
“…well outside of the headlines, another industry, one that purports to link Indigenous people internationally in order to benefit from resource extraction, has slowly taken off.”
Tuesday, August 28th, 7-9pm
Friends’ Meeting House – 4312 SE Stark St, Portland, OR
A group of judges from Brazil’s Regional Federal Tribunal (TRF1) upheld an earlier decision that declared the Brazilian Congress’s authorization of the project in 2005 to be illegal.
Mother Nature cares little whether you believe in climate change. The real issue is the fact that climate change is posed as a question in the first place, and its continued questioning comprises a tremendous ongoing victory for the titans of the oil economy. After all, when was the last time someone asked if you believed in gravity?
Jobs * Immigration * Environmental Justice * Energy * Ecosystems * Equity * Solidarity
Mobilizing around Wells Fargo during the main march, the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee targeted Wells Fargo for investing in GEO Group, a private prison corporation.