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Decision Day Action in Portland: We Won’t Go Back

Colonel Summers Park SE 17th Avenue and Taylor Street, Portland

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade thus putting a final nail in the coffin of legal abortion rights on the national level. The only reason abortion rights were achieved was because of the struggle of tens of millions of women demanding justice in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The people’s struggle will be the path to win and secure abortion rights and all other rights once again. Now more than ever we cannot sit back and despair. We must take to the streets across the country and make it clear that we will not accept this. We won’t go back. We WILL fight back!

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EAST SIDE MAKERS SHOWCASE

Martha's Curiosity Shop 110 East Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale

June 25, 2022, Martha's Curiosity Shop and RACC present: Free workshops taught by local artisans in skateboard art and design, fiber arts, zines, collaborative painting, and printmaking Portland, Ore. — June 2, 2022 — Martha's Curiosity Shop and the Regional Arts and Culture Council present an all-ages (13-150) free event for the east Portland and Troutdale communities. June 25, 2022 from 12:30 to 5:30 PM local artisans in fiber arts, printmaking, skateboard art and design, collaborative painting, and zine making will present free workshops on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive by 12:30 to sign up. Workshops are capped at twenty participants each. The East Side Makers Showcase is the first event of its kind presented by Martha Grover and Martha's Curiosity Shop and aims at…

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Mark Schorr Book Signing!

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Mark Schorr Book Signing Saturday, June 25, 1 to 2 pm Please drop by on Saturday, June 25, between 1 and 2 pm to meet Portland author Mark Schorr and get a signed copy of his latest book--his 12th!-- The Master Mind. When geeky Tom Lord tries to stop an attempted assault, he is in over his head. He's getting beatdown until he is saved with ease by the near victim's sister, Diana Wynne. Impressed by each other's bravery and different skill sets, the two become an awkward couple.Wynne is intrigued but nervous about her new friend's paranoid claims that he has ESP and a monomaniacal researcher has been pursuing him for decades. But after a brutal attempted kidnapping, she realizes that Lord's life is…

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Zine-Making Workshop with Skate Like a Girl

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland

MAKE A ZINE AT THE IPRC: In this two hour workshop, participants will learn about zines, and make a collaborative zine from start to finish: from content creation, to printing, assembling, and binding. This workshop provides a space for our women, trans, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming community to express themselves through the art of zine-making! Ages 16+ Register now: https://www.skatelikeagirl.com

$30

Lynn Xu, Joshua Edwards, and Stacey Tran

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Poetry reading featuring Lynn Xu, Joshua Edwards, and Stacey Tran. Born in Shanghai, China, Lynn Xu is the author of the full-length collection Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks June (Corollary Press, 2006) and Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and Marfa, Texas. Joshua Edwards is the author of Castles and Islands, Architecture for Travelers, Imperial Nostalgias, Campeche (with photographs by his father, Van Edwards), and Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa; and he translated María Baranda's book-length…

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