About This Site

Why this site?

I started this site in 2006, when Portland City Council considered and passed a resolution to bring US occupying forces out of Iraq and redirect resources back towards urgent local needs.

They held the hearing on November 30, and since November 30 is my birthday, I set a personal goal of mobilizing 1,000 people in support of the resolution (with a lot of help from my friends). I collected about 200 signatures, got ten people to the hearing. Hmnnn… what then? I kept doing little peace things here and there. I started using this site to share information about different things folks can do. I committed to keep on taking action until I’ve reached way more than 1,000 Portlanders with information about how they can stop the occupation of Iraq and hopefully the invasion of other countries. I think the more of us speaking up for peace, the better.

Over time and as things have happened in my life, I’ve stopped and started blogging a few times. But whenever I can find something to share, I will. I take action on all sorts of issues that I see as connected: changes in our criminal justice system, better treatment of our natural environment, human rights, queer liberation. I post links here so that other folks I know can take action, and find information about peace and justice events going on in the Portland area.

There’s so much to do for a more peaceful and just world! Luckily, there are plenty of folks in Portland committed to doing it.

Kathleen