May 4th, 2017

Our three year anniversary show, featuring:

5Q's on-the-ground report from Portland May Day 2017.  What originally began as a labor holiday - International Worker's Day - commemorating strikers in Chicago IL, has expanded in recent years to encompass a wide variety of social justice movements, in particular immigrant rights.  This year's May Day started with a large, peaceful rally in downtown Portland's Shemanski Park that highlighted anti-oppression struggles in Portland and across the world.  While the subsequent march was permitted, property destruction and thrown projectiles by some demonstrators saw police cancel the permit mid-march, declare the demonstration a riot, deploy flash grenades and pepper balls, and make over two dozen arrests.

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Students of David Douglas School District are protesting and speaking out for better support of students of color at school.  At a March 9th school board meeting debate on a "inclusion resolution" ensuring protection for undocumented immigrant students (which passed), board member Bryce Anderson made a comment criticizing sanctuary cities that some parents and students have called anti-immigrant.  A student-led campaign is now calling for his resignation - but Anderson says his words were twisted and that he won't resign.