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| === Tuesday | March 29, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Illustration Cannabis sativa0 clean.jpg|thumb]]
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| '''Oregon push to legalize selling marijuana to adults over 21 begins'''<br />
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| Yesterday, state approval was given to begin collecting signatures to put "[[OCTA 2012]]" ("Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012") on the ballot, which would regulate the legal sale of marijuana to adults through state-licensed stores, allow adults to grow their own, license Oregon farmers to grow marijuana for state-licensed stores, and allow unlicensed Oregon farmers to grow cannabis hemp for fuel, fiber and food." Organizers of the campaign started work immediately, canvassing for the 90,000 signatures they will need to put OCTA 2012 on the ballot. According to the organizers, OCTA 2012 would raise $140 million for Oregon a year in taxes from commercial cannabis sales, and save an estimated $61.5 million from law enforcement, corrections, and the justice system. Campaigners hope that Oregon's looming massive budget cuts and economic woes will provide the impetus for Oregon to become the first state to legalize cannabis outside of a medical marijuana context.
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| * ''Go to story'': [http://www.katu.com/news/local/118824839.html Push to sell marijuana in Oregon kicks off]
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| * ''Go to story'': [http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march292011/octa-approval.php Could Oregon be First to End Cannabis Prohibition? 'OCTA 2012' is Approved for Signatures]
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| * ''Go to website'': [http://www.cannabistaxact.org/ Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012]
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| === Monday | March 28, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Monday Meet May 3 2010.JPG|thumb|[[PortlandWiki]] [[Monday Meets]]<br />Tonight at [[Powell's Technical Books|Powell's Books: Building 2]]]]
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| '''Come Hang With Local Civic Wiki Geeks'''<br />
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| Tonight's Discussion: User Interface!
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| :How can PortlandWiki present a more inviting user interface?<br />
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| '''And''': Wiki blogs!
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| * '''What''': [[PortlandWiki]] [[Monday Meets]]
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| * '''Where''': [[Powell's Technical Books]]
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| * '''Address''': 40 [[NW 10th Avenue]], [[Portland]], [[Oregon|OR]] [[97209]]
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| : Corner of [[NW 10th Avenue]] & [[NW Couch Street]]. (This is Powell's Tech's new location.)
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| : ([http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-122.681114196777&minlat=45.5232315063477&maxlon=-122.680702209473&maxlat=45.5237083435059 OpenStreetMap], [http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=Powell%27s+2+Technical+Bookstore&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Powell%27s+2+Technical+Bookstore&hnear=Portland,+OR&cid=16191433936247649415&z=14 Google Map])
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| * '''Day''': This evening! Monday, March 28th, 2011
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| * '''Time''': 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
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| :''Go to meetup page'': [[Monday Meets]]
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| :''Go to event calendar'': [http://calagator.org/events/1250460404 PortlandWiki Monday Meets -- Come Hang With Local CivicWiki Geeks]
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| === Sunday | March 27, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Stand with people japan vigil banner.jpg|thumb|Stand with the people of Japan on Monday, March 28th.]]
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| '''Stand with Japan Vigil'''<br />
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| Nuclear power has not treated the Japanese people kindly. First, the power of exploding nuclear bombs, dropped from U.S. warplanes, killed hundreds of thousands of Japan's people towards the end of World War Two. Then, earlier this month, Japanese people got another bitter taste of nuclear catastrophe as an ongoing series of massive reactor failures began plaguing the Fukushima nuclear power plants in the wake of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. On Monday, March 28th, you have an opportunity to Stand with Japan and show your empathy for and solidarity with the people there.
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| * '''What''': Stand with Japan Vigil
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| * '''Where''': [[Terry Schrunk Plaza]]
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| * '''Address''': [[Downtown]] [[Portland]]: Between SW 3rd & 4th Avenues and SW Madison & Jefferson Streets | Portland, OR 97204
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| * '''Day''': Monday, March 28th, 2011
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| * '''Time''': 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
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| :''Go to event RSVP page'': [http://us.greenpeace.org/site/GetTogether?cal_event_id=100643&gettogether=event_main&page=event_main&cal_invitee_id=&cal_activity_id=1021 Vigil for the people of Japan]
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| === Saturday | March 26, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Lost cat.jpg|thumb|Izzy iz mizzin'!]]
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| '''Lost Izzy Puts Pet Owners in a Tizzy'''<br />
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| Izzy's been mizzin' since March 15! If you happen to spot a black and white tuxedo boy cat, the owner would love to hear back from you. Please find Izzy. It's been 11 days... :'-(
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| :''Go to story'': [[Lost_Pets#LOST%20CAT|Find Izzy]]
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| === Friday | March 25, 2011 ===
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| [[File:SweetSixteen.jpg|thumb|World Wide Wiki Turns Sweet Sixteen!]]
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| '''You're Sixteen. You're Beautiful. And You're Ours.'''<ref>[[wikipedia:You're_Sixteen|You're Sixteen]]</ref><br />
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| When the World Wide Web's creator unveiled the world's first Web site on Hiroshima Day (August 6th) 1991, the browser for this marvelous "[[wikipedia:Johannes Gutenberg|new Gutenberg]]" also functioned as a Web editor. Tim Berners-Lee intended that people ''contribute'' content to the Web, not merely consume it.<ref>[http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991017&slug=2989454 Why You Don't Surf The 'Mesh' -- Web's Inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, Is Spilling The Details Of Its Creation]</ref> But "free market" forces--with its legions of dull, consumption-addled consumer militias functioning as its loyal enforcers--had other plans. They quickly kicked aside the "write" portion of the read-write Web. In the blink of a million glazed-over eyeballs Berners-Lee's invention, running atop the Internet's narrowband pipes, began choking on a wretched bile of pernicious porn, fly-by-night shopping malls, malicious malware, spying webbots, deranged script kiddies and oily cyberhucksters selling Internet bubbles. By March 25, 1995 [[Portlandia]]n codegeek [[User:WardCunningham|Ward Cunningham]] had ''had enough'', and came to the rescue by putting the "write" back into the read-write Web. Cunningham unveiled the world's first wiki.<ref>[[wikipedia:History_of_wikis#WikiWikiWeb.2C_the_first_wiki|WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki]]</ref><ref>[[wiki:WikiHistory|Wiki History]]</ref> Today that wiki turns sweet sixteen.<ref>[[wiki:WikiBirthday|Wiki Birthday]]</ref> In these bleak times--as multinational media conglomerates and their corrupt political operatives work feverishly to stuff the Internet and its World Wide Web into a pay-to-surf cesspool<ref>[http://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-101 Net Neutrality 101]</ref>--Wiki's sweet sixteen birthday gives the read-write world something to genuinely celebrate.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/03/happy-birthday---the-wiki-cele.php Happy Birthday - the Wiki Celebrates its Sweet 16]
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| :''Go to rockstar'': [http://blog.aboutus.org/2011/03/25/wiki-the-continuing-and-original-rockstar-of-the-web/ Wiki, the Continuing & Original Web Rockstar]
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| :''Go to history'': [[wiki:WikiHistory|Wiki History]]
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| :''Go to birthday'': [[wiki:WikiBirthday|Wiki Birthday]]
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| === Thursday | March 24, 2011 ===
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| '''Palomar natural gas pipeline proposal withdrawn'''<br />
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| Citing recession-caused lack of demand, [[NW Natural]] has withdrawn its controversial proposal for the Palomar pipeline, a natural gas pipeline that would have cut through federally protected and environmentally sensitive [[Mt. Hood]] lands and destroyed the livelihoods of farmers and other landowners. However, NW Natural says they plan on resuming their lobbying, with perhaps a different route through the Confederated Tribes of the [[Warm Springs Reservation]], when demand increases. Local environmentalist organization [[Bark]] has promised to "not stand by... even if they reroute their pipe through the Warm Springs Reservation."
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| * '''Go to story''': [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/03/palomar_gas_partners_pull_the.html Palomar gas partners pull the plug on controversial pipeline proposal]
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| * '''Go to story''': [http://www.bark-out.org/article.php?id=715 Sustainable Business Oregon: Palomar natural gas pipeline shelved]
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| === Wednesday | March 23, 2011 ===
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| [[File:The-mezz-logo.png|thumb|Portland WikiWednesday happens this evening at [http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/pearl/the-mezz/ The MEZZ] inside [http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/pearl/ Whole Foods Market] in Portland's [[Pearl District]]]]
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| '''Come Hang With Portland's Wiki Geeks'''<br />
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| ''Local MediaWiki & Wikipedia Discussion Groups, Anyone?''<br />
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| Portland is the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History birthplace of wiki]"...<br />
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| ...and boasts quite a few wiki enthusiasts, many of whom are regular Wikipedia contributors and/or admins.<br />
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| Despite such heritage, Portland has yet to establish a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup|local Wikipedia meetup]]<br />
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| About time we do? Hope to see you this evening!<br />
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| * '''What''': [[pdxww:Welcome_to_Portland_WikiWednesday!|Portland WikiWednesday]]
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| * '''Where''': [[The MEZZ|The MEZZ Espresso Bar]]
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| * '''Address''': [[Portland]]'s [[Pearl District]]: [[NW 12th Avenue]] & [[West Burnside Street]]
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| * '''Day''': Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
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| * '''Time''': 6:30-9:00 p.m.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://calagator.org/events/1250460390 Portland WikiWednesday -- Come hang with Portland's wiki geeks.]
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| :''Go to [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland|Wikipedia meetup]] page'': [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland|Wikipedia Meetup, Portland]]
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