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| === Sunday | February 27, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Lighting on the Columbia River.jpg|thumb|Lighting on the Columbia River.]]
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| '''Management of Columbia River Basin More Cooperative than Most'''<br />
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| Want a little light reading for tonight's bedtime story? Well, how about this electrifying article: Alex Stark claims that, "water is affected by everything, and water affects everything and everyone." Because citizens of the US and Canada are constantly using up the world's most precious non-renewable resource, obtaining water is becoming a greater issue every day. However, Stark says that the Columbia River is a source of water that promotes kindness. Why? The 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty does not allow the resource to be taken over by anyone who's feeling greedy. So when you're drinking water from the Columbia River, remember: when you're drinking this water, the glass is always half full.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.e-ir.info/?p=7062 Water wars? The Role of Hegemony in the Jordan River, Nile River and Columbia River Basins]
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| === Saturday | February 26, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Solidarity With Wisconsin Rally Director Park 25-February-2011.jpg|thumb|Solidarity with Wisconsin Rally at [[Director Park]], Friday, February 25, 2011.]]
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| '''Portland's Workers Rally In Solidarity With Wisconsinite Workers'''<br />
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| More than a thousand Pacific Northwest workers gathered in Portland's [[Director Park]] Friday afternoon to rally in support of beleaguered public employees in Wisconsin. Pro-labor and pro-union demonstrators showed their support for Wisconsin state workers and their right to negotiate wages and benefits they receive through collective bargaining. Additional rallies across the United States are scheduled for Saturday.<ref>[http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?rc=rsad_seiu&action_id=238&search_distance=40 Rally to Save the American Dream]</ref><ref>[http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=112831 Rally to Save the American Dream]</ref><ref>[http://rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com/2011/02/support-wisconsin.html Rantings Of People Who Use Public Transit In Portland Oregon: Support Wisconsin]</ref>
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| :''Go to story'': [http://portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=129861584203903600 Local unions gather to support Wisconsin brethren]
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.katu.com/news/politics/116960688.html Portland demonstrators rally in support for Wis. workers]
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| :''Go to Portland Jobs With Justice'': [http://www.jwjpdx.org/ Portland Jobs with Justice]
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| === Friday | February 25, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Sun day.jpg|thumb|Sunny, Flowery & Beautiful]]
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| '''Sunny & Clear!'''<br />
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| And nice 'n' sparkly. It's the kind of beautiful Portland day that proves whoever invented desk jobs, windowless rooms and stuffy cubicles toiled at the behest of Satan.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGWvZAd228 Office space fax machine]
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| === Thursday | February 24, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Snow day.jpg|thumb|Snow Day]]
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| '''Snow Day!'''<br />
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| No school! Woo hoo!
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| :''Go to story'': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society Deschooling Society]
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| === Wednesday | February 23, 2011 ===
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| [[File:14th Annual Homelessness Marathon.jpg|thumb|14th Annual Homelessness Marathon]]
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| '''Listen To Stories Told By Homeless People From Around The United States'''<br />
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| This afternoon, Portland's [[KBOO]] Community Radio (90.7 fm) will begin a live fourteen hour radio broadcast of "The 14th Annual Homelessness Marathon" at 4:00 p.m. Pacific. Kansas City is the host for this year's special public affairs program, which, in addition to [[KBOO]], also broadcasts simultaneously on numerous other community radio stations throughout the United States. This is your opportunity to get beyond the ugly statistics, and the sad commentary on our culture's blatant immorality in denying shelter to so many among us, and just listen to what homeless folks have to say about the experiences they endure daily.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://kboo.fm/node/26724 Special Programming: Public Affairs on 02/23/11 - The 14th Annual Homelessness Marathon]
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| === Tuesday | February 22, 2011 ===
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| [[File:MetroFi abandoned WiFi antenna - Portland, Oregon.JPG|thumb|An abandoned MetroFi antenna. Photo by [[wikipedia:User:Aboutmovies|M.O. Stevens]].]]
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| '''[[Personal Telco]] repurposing old [[MetroFi]] wireless devices throughout Portland... as soon as someone donates the bandwidth'''<br />
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| After MetroFi, the company Portland hired in 2006 to create a wifi network covering the city, tanked two years later, leaving hundreds of dead wireless devices throughout Portland, the city was forced to take them down and put them in storage. Now, the city has donated over a hundred of them to Personal Telco, the free wifi nonprofit serving Portland. Now all Personal Telco needs to get them transmitting free wifi is donated bandwidth.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2011/02/personal_telco_deploys_metrofi.html Personal Telco deploys MetroFi's old Wi-Fi gear in North Portland]
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| === Monday | February 21, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Indweller.jpg|thumb|''Anna Lavatelli, "The Pink Room"'']]
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| '''Levitation Is For Indwellers'''<br />
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| The [[Archer Gallery]] at [[Clark College]] presents ''Indweller'', video works by Victoria Fu, Anna Lavatelli, Noelle Mason, and Lilly McElroy. "In each of these works, the bodies are used in a predetermined way within the space of the setting and the frame. The female figures are choreographed or set to a limited structure of movement, rather than used as character explorations. Through controlled gestures, constructed cinematic structures, and suspended moments in time and space, the figures become inseparable from the setting within the video, existing to complete the imagined world of the artist."<br />
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| Exhibition • February 22 - March 18, 2011<br />
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| Reception • 6-8pm • March 12<br />
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| [[Archer Gallery]] • [[Clark College]]<br />
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| 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, FAC 101, Vancouver, Washington
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/02/indweller.html Indweller]
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