Environmental Justice advocates are up early this morning working together to make sure climate justice receives and retains the funding it needs in Portland's city budget. The gist is that amendment proposals were published yesterday & public testimony starts in 48 hours on Monday. ☕

The places we know as the CEI Hub and Guild's Lake "Industrial Sanctuary" in NW Portland are new, manmade disasters. Before the marshes and lakes were paved over with concrete, the area was busy and thriving economically. #Portland #WillametteRiver #District4 #North Reach

We’re proud to be an Event Partner for the #ToxicRoots of the #SiliconForest Conference at PSU. Join us as we examine the #semiconductor industry’s legacy, its impacts on our own backyard, and how we can build a more equitable and sustainable future. 🎟️ Register today: bit.ly/toxicroots

We dream of daylighting Guild's Lake, a 400 acre lake, that was filled to create our city's Industrial sanctuary. It is located on the banks of the North Reach of the Willamette River in NW Portland. It is also the home of some of the CEI Hub tank farms.

Good morning Portland!

Should our organization stop using Meta, Facebook, and Instagram? Although we may lose some sort of social media reach, it seems like an obvious way for us to walk our talk.

When you pay your water bill, 0.5% of your money goes to the Portland Harbor Superfund. Mayor Wilson @mayorkwilson.bsky.social proposed to use $7 million for discretionary purposes in his proposed budget. That's not ok with us plus we have more questions than answers. 🧵 1 of 4

Swan Island (no longer an island) is a 430 acre industrial area managed by the Port of Portland. It used to be a real island near a natural wetland area called Mock's Bottom. It used to be a place for recreation and swimming. The wetland was filled in the 60s. #NorthReach #WillametteRiver #Portland

Drinking enough coffee now to share our questions and concerns about City of Portland's Environmental Remediation Fund and the Portland Harbor Superfund site with all of you.

We just told Mayor Wilson and Portland City Councilors to fund the St. Johns Fire Station & CEI Hub. Write your email here: actionnetwork.org/letters/fund... @braidedriverpdx.bsky.social

We have an extra seat on our tour of heavy industrial properties on the Willamette River in N and NW Portland tomorrow. DM us if you are interested. The tour is 9 am to noon.

From OPB: We’ll be fighting this forever. Our final story looks at the ways Oregon’s unique land-use system has worked – we’ve saved open space, we’ve built walkable communities, we’ve made sure even suburbs feel like true neighborhoods. www.opb.org/article/2022...

We just told Mayor Wilson and Portland City Councilors to fund the St. Johns Fire Station & CEI Hub. Write your email here: actionnetwork.org/letters/fund... @braidedriverpdx.bsky.social

On the CEI Hub, the mayor said, “We need to recognize both the energy needs and the risks (of massive earthquake etc damage). We need to start removing tanks and we have to start now.”

Trump actions threaten Willamette River salmon runs northpeninsulareview.com/trump-action... #Oregon #salmon #PDX #Portland #steelhead #salmonfishing #WillametteRiver #ColumbiaRiver

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From OPB: The stiffest fight against OR's unique land use system came in the 00s – as property owners won the right to get money back if new land-use rules prevented them from building. We tell the story of Dorothy English who became the public face of that fight. www.opb.org/article/2022...

Join us at the Toxic Roots of the #SiliconForest: People, Power, and Pollution in the Semiconductor Industry Conference co-hosted by @jwjpdx.bsky.social & @chipscommunities.bsky.social on June 3-4. Get your tickets today: bit.ly/toxicroots

From OPB: Oregon’s land use laws govern where developers can build – and, in the process, how we live, work and commute. This episode chronicles the decades-long battle over the proposed Westside Bypass, and Oregon’s complicated relationship with highways. www.opb.org/article/2022...

The “Right to Know Who’s Policing You” has its first reading in front of the full City Council on Thursday, Apr. 30 at 2pm. Come out and testify in support! Sign up at the link below. www.portland.gov/council-cler... #NoSecretPolice 1/2

There are less than 10 tickets left. Buy yours tonight! - Marnie

We invite you to our monthly bag lunch on Thursday 4/30 at the Braided River Gallery from noon to 1:30pm. We will be chatting about the CEI Hub, EOA, and the advocacy projects you’ve been working on. Children are welcome as always!

Happy Earth Day from Portland's dangerous CEI Hub.

On our reading list: Call me Darcelle by Walter Cole. Before he was Darcelle XV, Portland, Oregon's most celebrated drag queen, he was Walter Cole, a boy from Linnton in the North Reach of the Willamette River. www.powells.com/book/just-ca...

From OPB: Chronicling the story of two surprising advocates who took OR’s new land use system and fought to make sure local governments actually stuck to it. This installment tells the story of a Eugene homemaker and a Connecticut reporter. www.opb.org/article/2022...

@trryjhrrs.bsky.social Are you listening to the Mayor's speech?

Is there a watch party or bingo card for the Mayor's speech tonight? #Portland

TAKE ACTION: The Mayor should not raid voter-passed climate funds to renovate the MODA Center for the billionaire owner of the Trailblazers.

From Sarah, Braided River Campaign's co-founder: The story of the North Reach can not be told or planned for without reaching our thoughts out into the many worlds it impacts. The Willamette River is a tidal river that that is one part of the great Columbian flood plain. It is part of Forest Park.

On our reading list: Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley by Oregon historian David S. Lewis. www.powells.com/book/tribal-...

From our co-founder, Sarah: I am a bit of a North Reach feet-to-the-ground story collector. An approach I came to understand in Haiti when public health challenges were best understood by going up in the mountains and listening to the people. 🧵 1 of 3

Today, the City of Portland published "an internal administrative rule that guides how artificial intelligence solutions are acquired, developed, and deployed in City bureaus and service areas." Take a look. Let us know what you think about it. www.portland.gov/policies/tec...

This thread is for the super city nerds. Braided River Campaign is watching a live stream of the City of Portland's Community Involvement Committee. The meeting started 20 minutes ago and the committee members haven't acknowledged the presence of the two community members who are present!

We're changing our cover photo today to honor the Willamette River and the people who defend the it from corporate polluters like Zenith Energy. Water is life. (Lakota: Mní wičhóni)

I'm putting on my friend's red sweater before I head downtown to deliver our letter to Portland Mayor Keith Wilson @mayorkwilson.bsky.social at City Hall.

We are having trouble logging into our Instagram account. Pondering the dream of giving up on Meta forever.

24 new species found in Pacific Ocean area eyed for battery metals mining news.mongabay.com/2026/04/24-n...

Meet Siltronic. Siltronic was OR's #1 polluter in 2012 because they released 350,562 pounds of toxic wastes into the North Reach of the Willamette River that year. The company, based in Germany, is also a potentially responsible party for the Portland Harbor Superfund site. #makepolluterspay

Visit us at our gallery in Lloyd Center Mall on Thursdays! Then take a few loops around the ice skating rink!

IFYKYK Green Anchors is one of the best spots in North Portland. "It is a 7 acre eco-industrial park with green and creative tendencies, situated on the north shore of the Willamette River, just downstream of the St Johns Bridge."

From OPB: In the early 1970s, a bipartisan coalition of Oregon politicians fought to create the nation’s toughest land-use law over steep objections from builders and property owners. This is the story of how they won Senate Bill 100. www.opb.org/article/2022...

Unplug! Join us for an Earth Day Sing-a-long at Lloyd Center Mall. 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲 🌍️ 🎵 🌲

Watch the trailer for Once A Braided River, the film you can see with us at Portland Art Museum's Tomorrow Theater on SE Division on Sunday April 26th. Buy your tix soon. We expect to sell out. youtu.be/RWmYxddqtNo?...

Meet Ash Grove Cement Co, a cement manufacturer owned by CRH, a global business headquartered in Ireland. It is located on the North Reach of the Willamette River. Ash Grove Cement is a potentially responsible party for the Portland Harbor Surperfund site. They also have a history of pollution.

On our reading list >> Ross Island: An Urgent Call to Action Toward Public Stewardship and Long-Term Responsibility pdxcityclub.org/wp-content/u...

Join @braidedriverpdx for MOVIE NIGHT! tomorrowtheater.org/movies/once-... For thousands of years the north reach of the Willamette River, near its confluence with the Columbia, was a braided river of shallow channels and islands rich in biodiversity. 🧵 1 of 3

This is one of the dirtiest, most toxic sites along the North Reach of the Willamette River. Arkema was a producer of DDT and rocket fuel from 1941 to 2001. Arkema (surprise, surprise) is a potentially responsible party in the Portland Harbor Superfund site. #Portland #MakePollutersPay

Communities across the country are facing new data centers and power plants in their backyards — all to power the AI boom. The unchecked buildout of data centers threatens to raise electricity rates, increases pollution, and undermine clean energy goals.

Good job @councilorgreen.bsky.social.