Join the Portland Animal Defense League for the National Weekend of Mourning for Animals in Labs, which continues this morning. Meet at 11am at Sweetpea Bakery to carpool to the Rally. Groups in ten states in California, Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Nevada, and Kansasare coming together to remember the deaths of millions of animals in U.S. Laboratories. Causes of death at U.S. labs have included starvation, being boiled alive, hypothermia, hanging, inadequate post-surgical monitoring, drug overdose, hyperthermia, asphyxiation, poisoning, botched surgeries, severe untreated bacterial infections, exposure to bleach solutions, lung hyperinflation, suffocation, hit by car, placing living animals in carcass freezers, failed euthanasia, and gunshot wounds.
Oregon Health Science University has been cited for numerous USDA violations at its Oregon National Primate Research Center, where 4200 animals are kept. In November of last year an inspection noted 7 violations of the Animal Welfare Act including unqualified personnel, inadequate veterinary care, and improper housing. Again, meet at 11am today at Sweetpea Bakery, located at 1205 SE Stark.
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**Portland Animal Defense League** Keeping the Pressure on Since World Week For Animals In Labs
PO box 82733, Portland, OR 97282
http://courtneyscott.org/beyond_productions/default.htm
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If you missed Saturday's VoiceCatcher4 Anthology poetry and prose reading, there's still time to submit your work to the VoiceCatcher5 annual anthology featuring new and established women writers of diverse perspectives, voices, ages, orientations, and experiences. The submission window is open until today. For guidelines, check out the website voicecatcher [DOT] org
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Every Monday night from 7 to 8.30pm, Portland's Q center hosts a support group for survivors of intimate partner violence. This all-genders group is appropriate for any LGBTQ person who has left a violent or abusive situation, is thinking about leaving, or would simply like support and resources for understanding the dynamics of their relationship. Participants can expect a confidential, safe space in which to share and learn from each other and the facilitator. Q Center is located at 4115 N Mississippi Ave.
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every Monday night from 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Q center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave
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Tonight is Foreign Language Night at the Blackrose Collective, 4038 N Mississippi, at 6pm
Come practice your language skills with others and bring your own materials to share. This lessons are informally organized, coffee and tea are available. Possible languages include: German, Spanish, French, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, and Latin. Bring a friend!
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Voices And Extreme States Support Group, led by Will Hall, meets every first and third Tuesday from 6 to 7.30pm at the Downtown Chapel at 601 W Burnside. Open to people who hear voices, see visions, and have unusual beliefs, including mental health diagnosis of bipolar, schizophrenia, and psychosis. How can we learn to accept and live with who we are? What are ways to cope with fear, trauma, isolation, and overwhelming responses? Are there positive, creative, and spiritual sides to extreme states? What is mental diversity all about? This group is inclusive, non-judgmental, pro-treatment choice and pro-diversity. Donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
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portlandhearingvoices@gmail.com
413.210.2803
www.portlandhearingvoices.net/files/VoicesVisionsDifferentRealitiesGroup...
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Two weeks ago the so-called expert review panel appointed by the Washington and Oregon governors to review the Columbia River Crossing held a "public hearing" with only 48 hours notice. As would be expected, only 25 people were in attendance. This rubber stamp panel is holding another public hearing tomorrow. This time with a week's notice. It is important that as many opponents of the bridge as possible are present so that this panel of out-of-state "experts" to hear our communities' views on the project. Please help us spread the word and join us to demonstrate that we need to go back to the drawing board!
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Hilton - 301 West 6th Street, Vancouver, WA.
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