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Causa, Oregon’s immigrant rights
organization
We will march one week before Trump’s
presidential inauguration as part of a
national day of action to build community,
celebrate our immigrant heritage and
defiantly pledge to protect immigrants from
hateful attacks and policies. We are
marching to stand united for immigrant
rights in Oregon by bringing together
leaders from the faith, labor, business, and
immigrant and refugee communities. We
call on our local elected officials and
leaders to do everything in their power to
ensure Oregon is a welcoming state for all
communities.
National Association of Letter
Carriers Branch 82
I am marching with fellow postal workers-
because: As a letter carrier and lover of
America’s treasure, the U.S. Postal
Service, I am fearful that the Trump
agenda will severely damage mail service
and hundreds of thousands of living wage,
union jobs. One of The Donald’s first
agenda items is to freeze federal hiring. My
labor union estimates that 15,000 letter
carrier jobs would be lost each year. The
only way mail could continue to be
delivered is with a reduction in service - to
tive? four or three days a week. Or by
eliminating at-the-door delivery and forcing
residents to trek to “cluster boxes” blocks
away from their home. Or by closing or
reducing hours at post offices.
- Jamie Partridge, retired letter carrier
Basic Rights Oregon, LGBTO equality
We are marching because: One of our
co-executive directors is a queer Muslim
woman from an immigrant family. A quarter
of our staff are transgender; half of our
staff are people of color. We reflect the
communities we work in: immigrant and
communities of color, transgender
communities and communities outside the
Portland metro. And the Trump
administration threatens all of them. Now
more than ever, our community needs us
to be the first line of defense for LGBTQ
justice in Oregon.
Eric Hunsaker, 45, a Street Roots vendor who sells papers at Northwest
23rd and Johnson, will attend Portland's Inauguration Day Protest.
Kelly Strider, 38, a therapist from North Portland, will
participate in the Women's March in Washington, D.C.
NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon
Oregon educators, a message from
participating educators
350PDX, local chapter of global climate
movement
We are marching because: Students are
We are joining inauguration weekend
new administration to send a very strong
like our own children. We, as public school
educators, feel a need to educate, inform
and protect those students. We prepare to
mobilizations to protest Trump’s hateful
agenda and replace it with one that seeks
transformative systemic change, one that is
statement: This isn’t just about
reproductive rights. We acknowledge the
do whatever it takes to make sure they are
safe in all conditions. As a new
full of compassion and strengthens our
community’s resilience, especially for those
administration moves into office, we are
obligated to defend those children, their
families, the institution of fairness and equal
protection, and the safety nets established
for the betterment of those we care about -
including the most vulnerable. We march to
be their voices and our voice of equality in >
who are being oppressed. Deeply
connected to this is our mission to ensure a
rapid transition from fossil fuels. During the
marches, we’ll join a “Climate Block” to
raise awareness of fossil fuel threats here
locally. Change always comes from people
taking to the streets and then becoming
active to create the change we want and
need. Join us!
our schools and all of America.
- Deborah Barnes,
Oregon Education Association member
We are marching on the first day of this
need for inclusivity in our movement and
are marching to unify against the hateful
racist, xenophobic, homophobic, bigoted
and sexist reality of the new
administration. We march for reproductive
self-determination for al, people, including
meaningful access to affordable, high-
quality health care services. We march as
a step toward unifying our communities to
create change by centering the
experiences and voices of those most
affected.
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Planned Parenthood Advocates
of Oregon
We are marching because: Extreme
politicians want to shut down Planned
Parenthood health centers, which would
deny millions of people access to the
cancer screenings, birth control, STD and
HIV testing and treatment and other care
they rely on. If these politicians succeed, it
would be a national health disaster and
throw our country into chaos. Planned
Parenthood Advocates of Oregon will
march to make sure every single politician
knows that we won’t back down, we won’t
be silenced, and we will not let these
politicians attack our health and rights!
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