WLA Sponsored Event

The West Linn Alliance, in partnership with the West Linn Public Library, is pleased to host a discussion on Resolving Hate in America. Location: Online Event Registration: https://calendly.com/wlpl-programs/resolving?month=2022-06 Date: June 23, 7:00-8:30 pm Week after week we witness more massacres of Americans in shopping malls, grocery stores, places of worship, streets, and schools. Last June,… Read More »Resolving Hate in America: A Group Discussion

The West Linn Alliance and West Linn Public Library are pleased to host a free online presentation and facilitated discussion on Thursday, September 22. The topic is: What It Takes to Migrate Registration Link: https://calendly.com/wlpl-programs/wla-sep-2022 Not every refugee fleeing violence in Central America gains asylum in the U.S. The work of several U.S. attorneys involved… Read More »What It Takes to Migrate

The online discussion has been cancelled, but we encourage you to read the book on your own. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna… Read More »Book Discussion Group – Ceremony

March 13, 2023 Meeting Agenda 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (zoom link to be sent separately) Tentative Agenda Approve Minutes of February 13, 2023 meeting Candidate pages on our webpage for March election. Update on the BIPOC Women Speaker Series Earth Day April 22 seed packet update Update on March 11 School District diversity conference… Read More »Outreach Planning Committee Meeting

Thursday March 23, 7pm Please join us for the fifth and final event in our BIPOC Speaker Series. Tracey Lam, APR, is an award-winning public relations professional who uses communications as a catalyst for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is the director of programs and communications at Partners in Diversity, a nonproft organization that works… Read More »Women BIPOC Speaker Series: Tracey Lam

Freedom came to Texas on June 19, 1865, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. On that day, Union Soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order 3, declaring formerly enslaved people as free men and women. This day has come to be known as… Read More »Juneteenth: Celebrating Our Stories

Our monthly planning meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Monday January 8. The meeting will be online and will include a representative from the city coming to talk about housing, what the city is planning, and how we can be involved. The agenda and meeting link will be posted when available. Outreach Meeting… Read More »West Linn Alliance Monthly Meeting

West Linn Alliance presents a staged reading of Sube y Baja (The Teeter-Totter) by Francisco García Mon., October 14th, 7:00 West Linn Lutheran Church 20390 Willamette Dr Free Admission (recommended for age 12 and up) Two children come together at the border to ride a teeter-totter and share a brief moment of joy and heartbreak.… Read More »Sube y Baja (The Teeter-Totter) by Francisco García

Join us on on Sunday November 3 at the West Linn Library for a children's book reading by Waka T. Brown. She will read from her recent publication: The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura. This event is sponsored by the West Linn Alliance and the West Linn Public Library. Waka T. Brown is an award… Read More »The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura