Tri Met is proposing changes that will positively impact some people in WEST LINN by connecting WEST LINN with Lake Oswego. A new Line 153 would replace Line 154 service in Downtown West Linn on Willamette Falls Dr, Ostman Rd and Blankenship Rd, then continue… Read More »Tri Met Improvements in WEST LINN
Clackamas County recently announced the closure of our Equity and Inclusion office as of February 5. The two remaining staff positions in that office will move to other departments. In response to this change, County Clerk Catherine McMullen has written: “Like many of you, I… Read More »Clackamas County Eliminates Equity and Inclusion Office
Portland Community College, in celebration of Black History Month, presents “Africa through African lenses,” a hybrid virtual/in-person festival. The festival runs February 2-March 2, is free and open to the public. The Cascade Festival of African Films shows us Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather… Read More »Africa Through African Lenses
Published by Tori Blackwell in the January 2024 Unite Oregon City Newsletter In January we will celebrate Martin Luther King Day, followed by Black History Month in February. During that period, it is very likely that two terms that come up regularly throughout the year… Read More »Equality Vs Equity
Across our land, regressive individuals and coalitions are actively seeking to deny historical facts and push our country backward in time to an era when discrimination was the widely accepted norm. Part of their focus is on eliminating public and private efforts to promote diversity,… Read More »Clackamas County Equity and Inclusion Office is Under Threat
Rural Organizing Project is a state-wide organization that supports a multi-issue, rural-centered, grassroots base in Oregon. They work to build and support a shared standard of human dignity: the belief in the equal worth of all communities, the need for equal access to justice and… Read More »What is the Rural Organizing Project?
Celebrating Our Stories was a Juneteenth event capturing West Linn oral histories to save for posterity. West Linn Alliance for Inclusive Community extends a sincere thank you to all our partners for their help on Juneteenth weekend. This was our first year holding this event and… Read More »Thank you for a successful Juneteenth
The Oregon School Boards Association (OSBA) has recently reviewed a policy on: Accommodation for Religious Instruction and Cultural Observance. The suggested policy is not mandated and will be considered for adoption by individual school boards. The original policy was prepared by the Jewish Federation of… Read More »Religious and Cultural Holidays
West Linn Alliance for Inclusive Community is forming a new study group to delve deeply into the issues raised in Resmaa Menakem’s book My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Key to this book is the perspective that… Read More »My Grandmother’s Hands
Something’s Happening Here Nine o’clock at night is not when I would hope to be online waiting to deliver a message to our local School Board. Yet there I was, sitting at my desk, waiting for my allotted three minutes to address the Board. It… Read More »An Orwellian Dilemma