Former North Portland Candidate Joe Rowe

08/10/2024

Renters and politics save lives. - You're invited to two events - (First ) Saturday August 10th in NW and also Saturday August 17th in North Portland. - The first event at "Good Coffee" at 10am 2175 NW Raleigh St Who: The People Behind the RENTER BILL OF RIGHTS! and at 11am people will put down the coffee and start walking on canvas work door to door for Mitch Green ( City Council ) who signed the Bill of Rights pledge. - There will be more events in SE ( District 1 and 3) and if you live in NE/N ( District 4) you can check the comments for an event with Jonathan Tasini who also signed the pledge. If you are a renter you should sign the pledge and get all candidates in your district to sign ( not many support renters ) - the candidate contacts will be in comments as well.

Sign the Renters Bill of Rights

01/27/2021

RSVP for Town hall by Oregon House Speaker Kotek. We Your concerns. Mine are Police Abolition and freeway opposition- Thursday 6pm, Jan 28. We need to tax the rich as Oregon ranks horribly on this. RSVP >> https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvd-6oqjsqHdeYAoT06Qc4JnO8Kkri8zp4?fbclid=IwAR3pJIM1c9BIVA-aWUE55l12Ktls9ri8vwEOkdi6wKEadOSqwdrX1LHGZ6M

With Senator Lew Frederick, Speaker Tina Kotek, and Representative Tawna Sanchez

09/27/2020

Vote Nov 3 - ✔️✔️ Vote your choices but reach out to friends for endorsements. I suggest Chloe and Sarah for Portland. Vote no on the planet killing pork Metro Transportation Bond - Vote Yes for Mary Nolan for Metro council. Mary's opponent proudly lists a developer endorsement. The YIMBY developer evicted Black Renters on Albina Ave and opposes rent control. My full facts, links, endorsements are here ⤵️⤵️

Joe Rowe's election slate card: Oppose Metro Transportation Bond (link explains it does not help climate change ) Mary Nolan for Metro Commissioner Dist 5 Mary's opponent (Chris Smith) proudly lists a YIMBY developer endorsement. They evicted black renters on Albina Ave, and then black live...

08/26/2020

Salem Democrats just backed out of an agreement to fund high school graduates from June 2020 to start Community College in Sept 2020. The grant is called.... "Promise Grants"... OMG... Meanwhile.... Salem is funding 12 billion in freeways, and they refuse to tax the richest 100 in Oregon. (Trump's COVID scheme was detached by NY and other states, but not Oregon!!)

We can fix this...Put your Salem Rep/Senator on speed dial before the 3rd special session. In special session v2 they cut 5 million from human services and only 100k from ODOT(Roads) ..

Salem can tax with a super majority. The rich are scooping up housing and bonds before the market crashes... PS, you can't by safe municipal bonds with a retirement fund.

PENDLETON — Connor Cary clicked on the email with a sense of trepidation.

08/17/2020

Help pick endorsements for city council and Metro. Invite a friend. The online event is public, but only greens can interact in the GoogleMeet video chat. Some candidates may come.

08/16/2020

You are invited! - 7pm Tues AUGUST 18th - Invite other greens. Straw poll vote on local candidates for Nov 2020.

- RSVP if you are a Metro Green. Vote on endorsements and join the interactive GoogleMeet video chat- The RSVP Link is in the google doc.

- Non voting public can observe:: Anyone can watch, link is in the google doc.

Goals:
-1 Flush out the key values greens use when voting
-2 Build connections between local greens, pre and post meeting mingle time
-3 Quick vote on endorsements

6:30 gather and mingle time
7pm Portland Mayor - Ted Wheeler v Sarah Iannarone
7:20 Portland City Council - Chloe Eudaly v Mingus Maps
7:40 Metro Council -
Mary Nolan v Chris Smith
Gerritt Rosenthal v Tom Anderson

8pm Any ballot initiatives such as the City Police Reform ballot initiative

PS: On Tuesday Aug 18th we we will be 2 months from October 18th. On Oct 18th everyone in Oregon Should have their ballots and voter pamphlet. This is perhaps the most historic vote in my lifetime on a local and national level. We don't use zoom

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVEZl4K_3oP-vWgWWTNOaGabOeyAzmFD1YYc19wk_eI/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVEZl4K_3oP-vWgWWTNOaGabOeyAzmFD1YYc19wk_eI/edit?usp=sharing

Portland Greens Straw Poll Endorsements Answers from Candidates on green issues, click here When: August 18th, 7pm Who: Anyone can watch, only Metro Greens and candidates interact via the google meet event. The public stream is here RSVP mandatory for greens and candidates: here Your invite...

06/30/2020

Please sign this petition. It's hosted by BAMN - They are BIPOC activists in Oakland CA. - BIPOC are hardest hit by school closures, but a rush to open schools will eclipse that and cause yet more disproportionate death and inequity... Even if online school is a wasted year, that's better than wasted lives. - and lastly.... The media are misinterpreting science as a means to say schools can be safe. There's no data and no consensus of scientists or doctors.

No School Re-Opening, Protect Our Children

05/12/2020

Do you live in North Portland?
Do you use NextDoor? The bias against houseless has infected the boards of our Neighborhood associations. -- The link below only works if you use NextDoor. Please logon to next door and speak up against sweeps, and against caging people in the old jail. And please direct message me so we can exchange emails and phone numbers. [email protected] ( FYI I an not running for office any longer, but my page has a lot of kind people who connected to each other )

And tell a friend. It's sick we have to organize against our white moderate neighborhood boards.

Stay in the know with Nextdoor, the neighborhood hub.

04/28/2020

Portland Greens Straw Poll Endorsements
When: April 30th, 7:30PM
Where: Online video chat, See RSVP
RSVP mandatory:
Audience RSVP here
https://tinyurl.com/pgpapril30
same URL
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe_M1dTSiSIrhzXT3UcaM7d2OglfQUQqaMYgcontk0jdWXag/viewform

Current Meetings: Portland - April 30th 7:30PM - Video Meeting Link will arrive by email, do not share it

03/23/2020

We had a Portland toxic air weekend. Picture below.
The source is "clean" wood stoves.

Roads were clear, no vehicle pollution.......Over the weekend no industry. But huge pollution spikes due to wood burning. No such thing as a clean wood stove. This photo from 7am March 22nd. You can see the east side homes in red, and it smelled like smoke all over Portland. An inversion layer caused stagnation , which is common. What is rare is the change to see wood smoke isolated from vehicle and industry ( which did not exist this weekend in any significant form)

End of story, if you burn wood all winter in a city you can save lives and save lungs, today and even after the virus risks are lower. The answer is don't use wood heat in an urban area. The data is there.

It is now 8pm the same day and the air is Yellow, but it will be red in a few hours and stay that way for days or a day. The URL to live data is below.. You can buy one of these PurpleAir sensors at PurpleAir (dot) com About $200

https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0 #11.52/45.5513/-122.6663

https://twitter.com/PDX_CSL/status/1241727591364456449

https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0 #11.52/45.5513/-122.6663

URLs above.

“You may have seen how air pollution has plummeted across the world as people stay home due to the coronavirus. Not in Portland. We're waking up to some of the worst air we've had in awhile. Pollution was even worse last evening. Let's take it easy on the wood burning Portland.”