Protests

Women have taken to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence.

Journalists and legal observers claimed they endured police uses of force multiple times during the 2020 protests despite their rights to be present and document events.

Oregonians are protesting the Trump administration and filling town halls with members of Congress on a regular basis. And the frustration with both parties is clear.

A deputy U.S. Marshal shot Donavan LaBella in the head with a less-than-lethal munition outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland on July 11, 2020. The incident has left LaBella, who at the time was 26, with a condition known as frontal lobe syndrome, which affects brain functioning processes like social behavior and language

The war in Gaza sparked protests at universities across the U.S. last school year, including at Portland State. Reports of both antisemitism and Islamophobia were rampant.

The city of Portland has now paid out more than $3 million in settlement dollars related to police activity during the 2020 protests.

They’re working to get the deal approved before high-level officials at the U.S. Department of Justice leave office at the end of President Biden’s term.

Parents are demanding school board resignations in a district that agreed last spring to a $3.5 million sex abuse settlement.

The report gives some insight into how Portland police have, and haven’t, changed after the protests of 2020.

Administrators at the private, liberal arts university are reviewing public comment on new free speech policy proposals. The school recently unveiled the guidelines on how to hold demonstrations and on how to post banners and flyers.