Last week, prior to police killing Daunte Wright, I gave an interview on behalf of @thestreettrust to @KOINNews about the defunding of Portland's traffic enforcement division.

When they asked why I didn't think more policing was the answer to traffic violence, I said this: Racial bias in traffic enforcement is a well-documented reality. One life lost to police violence at a traffic stop is too many. Kendra James needlessly lost her life during a traffic stop. Sandra Bland. Philando Castille. Walter Scott. Jordan Edwards. #SayHerName #SayHisName

Lots of talk about portraits of communists on a skirt I wore to a spectacle in 2016, but nobody wants to take on the Ninja, Space Force or James Dean images on there, too?

Cowards.

For the record, art as social commentary is not the same as endorsement. bbc.co.uk/programmes/art… Spectacle as social commentary is something for which Portland is well known. From Naked Bike Ride to Pop Mob, the Raging Grannies to Banana Bloc, it's one of my favorite forms of protest.

The Reverend Billy Talen is a master of the form. businessinsider.com/profile-of-wil…

Heartening to see y'all questioning the merits of a write-in campaign yesterday but it's not particularly relevant electorally. Wheeler's incumbency is the real threat to the future of Portland this November.

You can help me unseat Wheeler 3 ways this week. 📝 ⬇️ 1️⃣ DONATE

The 6-to-1 pubLic match resets for the general. Buying advertising, sending mail, paying campaign staff, phones & internet, distributing (and redistributing lol) lawn signs all cost a lot of money.

(Wheeler campaigns from the mayor's office.)
Sarah2020.com/donate

@LauralPorter Pulling this quote out of context misrepresents what I was trying to say her. I guess I got a little flustered with being repeatedly interrupted while trying to give a thoughtful response. So I want to correct the record, because I'm getting repeated death threats over this. 1/ @LauralPorter Peaceful protests are advancing the movement, and as noted in the article, I of course oppose crime and arson. 2/

Portland police have escalated to attacking cyclists on main thoroughfares in daylight. I have a hard time imagining any context in which this is acceptable use of force.

(FYI this is a primary route SB off the Hawthorne, a busy bike bridge)

https://twitter.com/ElkBaba/status/1283788635578359809

Hey transportation community, want to step into the fray on this one? Random right of way closures day after day? Attacking cyclists? None of this is OK.
@BikePortland @Why_Not_Bikes @PBOTinfo @ChloeEudalyPDX @thestreettrust @go_by_bike @bikeloudpdx @andrewtheen @BlairStenvick

The field for this hire was thin from the get go. Shoureshi was never the right choice. Wim gave plenty of notice before leaving, so trustees could have called a failed search and started over.

No PhD needed to know that a stitch in time saves nine. 1/x

https://twitter.com/JeffmanningOre/status/1126999414768160768

Haven't talked much about my exit from PSU but caveat: I'm bitter. PSU trustees waste hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars on greasy private consultants like Margolis Healy and shitty hires like Shoureshi while students face an 11% tuition hike and programs are cut 🤬 2/x

OMG you just described Oregon.

https://twitter.com/julieoriglio/status/1113589153583771648

No, seriously, there's research supporting it. muse.jhu.edu/book/11742

Full house for @UrbanLeaguePDX conference commemorating 30-year anniversary of Mulugeta Seraw's murder by white supremacists on the streets of Portland. @rblazak gives attendees a brief history of Oregon's roots as a white supremacist Utopia. Oregon's small Black population is not coincidental; it was by design-- the design of the KKK. The Klan elected Portland mayors and they marched in the Rose Parade. There were Klan rallies where the Timbers now play.

This anti-Black racism extended to Jews and Catholics as well.

Attended a thought provoking lecture today, “The Miracle of Density”: The Politics of Urban Design and Densification in downtown Bogotá" by Federico Pérez, a prof in @Portland_State Honors College

There were some HEAVY lessons therein for the #YIMBY movement, gonna try relay 1/x First off, we gotta rethink how we talk about density because TBH, it's not density NIMBYs fear, it's overcrowding and all the threats that an urban mob presents 2/x

There's a graphic video circulating of Portland Police rushing into a homeless shelter and killing a suspected car-jacking suspect. It stirs emotions, so I'll post at the end of the thread.

First, as a community, I want to think rationally about what's happening in our city: What we're witnessing in Portland today is WARFARE within our own boundaries between the dominant class (white, housed, affluent) and those who are not.

Our militarized police an occupying force less interested in "public safety" than in maintaining order and control.