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The marketers hired to greenwash @oregondot's effort to widen the I-5 freeway thru central Portland are rebranding it with with Black themes. This is 3 days after community groups sued, and 1 day before a protest rally at Harriet Tubman school. bikeportland.org/2021/04/08/odo… 2/6
They/we bulldozed Portland's Black community to build this freeway, declaring that “urban renewal, largely clearance, appears to be the only solution to not only blight [...] but also to avoid the spread of that blight to other surrounding areas.” blackpast.org/african-americ…