Take action this Saturday, January 10th, to protest Trump's illegal war and stand in solidarity with the sovereign people of Venezuela! Join us at the Battleship Memorial in Waterfront Park at 11am!

City Council is electing a president today and based on this article, it seems unlikely that the position will be Elana Pirtle-Guiney’s again. Councilor Kanal says he is ready to step up if nominated by his colleagues. I’ll be at council this morning to let y’all know what goes down.

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Rally against War on Venezuela in downtown Portland today!

Rally against the war in Venezuela in McMinnville tomorrow (Sunday) with our Yamhill County Branch! 11am - 1pm outside the McMinnville Public Library, 2nd and Adams

Portland City Council member (& veteran) @councilorgreen.bsky.social gives a 🔥 talk connecting the dots between spending on war abroad & the lack of proper funds at home. Shouts out @portlanddsa.bsky.social as well as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as sources of inspiration in this perilous moment #PDX

No War for Oil! US out of Venezuela! Rally today SW 10th and Burnside 3:30 pm

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers. www.reddit.com/r/confession...

Waking up to the news that the US has bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and will now seek to decide its fate (i.e. “liberate” its natural resources). We don’t have money for basic infrastructure in our local communities, but we can always start new wars? Absolutely sickening.

Tonight! Join our Labor Working Group from 7-9pm at Thunderbird bar to socialize with socialists! actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-l...

The corporate lobbyist guy who makes like $400,000 per year (subsidized by the public) to do the bidding of corporations and downtown property owners has an opinion so it’s the duty of Willamette Week to print it. Spoiler: leftists are destroying the city by not giving his clients what they want.

We've got merch! Fly your socialist colors with shirts, tanks and hoodies from portlanddsa.org/shop/

As American capitalism continues to collapse into straightforward gambling and corruption, class war is heating up in Portland because political movements (& half our city council) won’t just give ourselves over to full exploitation by corporations and speculators.

Join us on Monday at 7 to Make Power Public! Our new Public Power committee will be exploring how we can take private utilities into public ownership. RSVP and details: actionnetwork.org/events/publi...

What is the City trying to hide when it fires the Social Housing advisor for pointing out a big pile of unspent money? Your DSA Councilors are on the case!

If she became a champion for it we could get out there & knock doors for her instead of writing mean responses to her fundraising emails & standing in the rain to yell at her & thwarting her & the ignorant ass Senate Finance Committee in Salem. Tim Boyle is never gonna knock doors for you Tina!!!!!

Pioneer Square Starbucks is being SCABBED! 🤬🤬🤬 Call them and ask them why they're open during the strike. Support striking baristas!

Now we're talking! With the county on track to nearly double the number of children enrolled Preschool for All program, we should look forward to the next horizon of socialist imagination. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/12...

DSA's councilors are developing practical initiatives for public safety!

Scenes from the DSA Holiday Party - a fundraiser for the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice!

Tonight!!

Former Housing Director Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Millions in Unspent Funds. A memo Helmi Hisserich sent to city councilors says city administration viewed unspent funds as "a big PR problem." ✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social

The mayor and his administrators appear to have thrown the former housing bureau director under the bus to kill social housing at the city. This is a huge scandal.

Homelessness and Housing are top issues in Portland. It would be unacceptable for the Mayor and staff to not show up to address the missing $21 MILLION dollars that Council was not informed about. Council has subpoena powers and if the executive wants to force our hand, so be it. We will use it.

Portland City Council passed a new land use fee targeting the impacts of detention facilities after months of munitions use at the South Portland ICE building. ✍️ @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social

Really happy with the Portland city councilors who voted to ban AI price fixing, pass the detention fee ordinance, and start the pricess for a human rights screen on city investments. There’s a lot of noise and bullshit out there, but these folks are governing with their values.

Join us this Friday Dec 5th! A family friendly party and benefit fundraiser for the IMIrJ Sanctuary Fund www.imirj.org/sanctuary-fund There will be a cash bar, meat and veggie tamales and Bloco Alegria is going to be playing music! Please RSVP and consider making a donation to IMIrJ, links 👇

I'm so excited that my samba band, Bloco Alegria, will be playing with the BrazilTones at the Holocene in PDX on Dec 5th! It's a fundraiser for IMIrJ, sponsored by @portlanddsa.bsky.social I hope you can join us. Put on your dancing shoes! 🥁🪘🇧🇷

Here is a FAQ sheet that will clarify what Portland City Council does and doesn't have power to do in relation to revoking the Macadam ICE permit. TL;DR: (1) CC cannot unilaterally revoke the ICE permit; (2) CC cannot lean on PP&D to do it; (3) the CC is exercising its authority in other ways.

Are you looking for somewhere to put your political energy that can make a real difference? DSA is the largest socialist organization in the country, now at 90,000 members nationwide, and we have big plans for the years ahead. Join this mass movement! go.dsausa.org/portland

@portlanddsa.bsky.social has an electoral working group and democracy commission dedicated to exactly this! This is being put together as we tweet, join DSA and help bring it together! act.dsausa.org/s/2814.hazd5y

VOZ worker's center is offering another Adopt a Corner day laborer support training on December 2! This is a great way to get out there and support migrants in the face of ICE attacks. Join your DSA comrades and tell your friends! Sign up: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

200 recruits from the @demsocialists.bsky.social fall recruitment drive for @portlanddsa.bsky.social topping the leaderboard!!!! Make the number go up here 👇👇👇 act.dsausa.org/s/3546.hO3eBk

They are getting nervous, and they should be. Democratic socialists are being elected all over this country because the ruling class is hoarding wealth, destroying the planet, and ruining basically everything around us while covering for a child sex trafficking ring many of them are implicated in.

Welp, it looks like the Portland Metro Chamber’s solidarity with the community against ICE and a federal invasion ends at charging an impact fee to property owners who would rent their properties to detention facilities that harm neighbors & drain public resources. Can’t say that we’re surprised!

Celebrating this victory today! Just after the state AG settled with a big landlord Corp for using robot ripoff software, Portland has banned its use! Thanks to @councilormorillo.bsky.social for leading on this.

Welp, it looks like the Portland Metro Chamber’s solidarity with the community against ICE and a federal invasion ends at charging an impact fee to property owners who would rent their properties to detention facilities that harm neighbors & drain public resources. Can’t say that we’re surprised!

@councilormorillo.bsky.social reiterated comments that she, too, does not think the fee ordinance is anywhere enough! She reminds the public that some of her colleagues (ahem) have already said the city has done 'too much' in response to federal issues and want to stop entirely.

Algorithmic Price Fixing Ban — sponsored by @councilormorillo.bsky.social & @councilorgreen.bsky.social — passes with 8 yes votes, 2 no votes, and 2 absences.

That's the DSA drip

We’ll be there to support the Algorithmic Price Fixing Ban and the Detention Fee Ordinance!

Today Portland City Council will have a final hearing and vote on my Algorithmic Price Fixing Ban! So grateful for leaders like @agdanrayfield.bsky.social for leading the charge in the courts. Corporations should not be taking advantage of regular people for profit. Affordable rent NOW!

A tale of two Dans

Disagreement on policy is welcome and reasonable, but calling me a Nazi for cosponsoring an ordinance to ban price-fixing is completely unacceptable. Councilor Ryan edited his post, but did not disclose the edit and explain the nature of the substantive change, so it’s here for posterity.

Come out tomorrow to rally against the robotic rent-price rip-off software that landlords want to use against tenants! 5 pm Nov 19 at City Hall

We're supportive of the ban on AI software to inflate rental prices! Check out the rally organized by @portlanddsa.bsky.social this Wednesday.

“Far from being "performative" as the Metro Chamber suggested, this pledge from the Peacock councilors is a bright light from their north star. It shows their dedication to universal justice and human rights, not to slicing and dicing morality in the name of political expediency.“

Save the date for our Holiday party! Rumba Socialista is a benefit for the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice and features live music from Bloco Alegría! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/rumba...

🚨Breaking News🚨 @portlanddsa.bsky.social is officially #1 on the @demsocialists.bsky.social fall drive leaderboard for recruitment, edging out @dsa.la Red Northwest on the come up! Help us boost the numbers even more here👇👇👇 act.dsausa.org/s/3546.hO3eBk

This week, City Council will vote to pass a ban on algorithmic (AI) software that landlords use to inflate rent prices. @portlanddsa.bsky.social along with renters and allies will hold a rally at Portland City Hall in support of the ban. RSVP for more details. actionnetwork.org/events/ai-re...