@portlanddsa.bsky.social
Democratic Socialists of America of Portland, OR. We reject all forms of exploitation & oppression and organize with the goal of ending capitalism. linktr.ee/portlanddsa
Tonight!!
05.12.2025 00:33 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
Information about the music here: www.blocoalegria.org/events/2025/...
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RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/rumba...
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Donate to the fundraiser our Immigrant Justice working group has put together for the InterfaithMovement for Immigrant Justice (IMIrJ) Sanctuary Fund. portlanddsa.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/im...
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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/...
22.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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
Democratic socialism provides an actual path to human rights, economic justice, access to high-quality public services + amenities, and a clean environment.
All these people will give us is exploitation and violence as their order continues to slowly collapse.
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.
November 18, 2025 Honorable Portland Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Councilors, We write to express our opposition to the Detention Facility Impact Fee. While we understand your motivation for proposing such an ordinance, we write to ask you to consider the long-tterm implications and unintended consequences of this proposal. The Portland Metro Chamber (The Chamber) is greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce and represents the largest, most diverse network of businesses in the region. The Alliance advocates for business at all levels of government to support commerce, community health and the region's overall prosperity. We represent more than 2,100 members, from 27 counties, 13 states and virtually every industry sector. More than 80% of our members are small businesses We share your concerns with the current federal administration's antagonistic approach to our community, and we were grateful that half the members of this council joined over 175 elected officials and organizations signing on to our call to action for a unified voice of opposition to an unjustified federal troop deployment. For more than a century and a half-since before Oregon achieved statehood-Portland has been a city where civic expression, including protest, has played a defining role in our public life. Throughout this long history, the City has never required the subject of a protest to bear the financial burden associated with public safety, cleanup, or street closures. The proposal now under consideration would dramatically depart from that long-standing principle and create an avenue for targeted financial liability based solely on the political aims of others. This change would introduce significant long-term risks. Portland's political landscape has evolved over time and will continue to do so. A policy that allows elected officials to levy costs on entities that are the focus of protests-regardless of whether those entities organized,
1. Lack of Environmental Impact Evaluation To our knowledge, the City has never undertaken an environmental impact assessment of protest activity. If the environmental effects of demonstrations are a basis for new fees or restrictions, such analysis should be conducted before establishing a policy framework that selectively assigns financial responsibility. 2. Departure From Established Practice for Civic Events While the City routinely requires event organizers to cover public safety and right-of-way impacts for parades, marathons, and other permitted activities, this proposal would mark the first time a tax-paying business would be charged for costs associated with an event it did not host, sanction, or participate in. This is a significant shift in policy with far-reaching implications. 3. Risk of Creating a New Revenue Mechanism Targeting Businesses If adopted, this measure could establish a precedent enabling the City to levy impact fees whenever a business becomes the focus of a protest. Such a mechanism would send a chilling signal to the commercial real estate and broader business community. Portland competes with other cities and surrounding jurisdictions for investment; proposals that create unpredictable or punitive cost exposure threaten our competitiveness. 4. Absence of Protestor Accountability While the Chamber strongly supports the right to free speech and peaceful assembly, the current proposal places the entirety of the financial burden on the business being targeted-regardless of the actions of demonstrators. This raises a fundamental policy
Portland's success depends on fostering a stable, predictable, and fair business environment. We urge the Council to reconsider this proposal and engage stakeholders in developing a policy approach that honors our city's values, protects constitutional rights, and sustains the economic vitality that Portland depends on. Portland Metro Chamber Multifamily NW Oregon Smart Growth Home Building Association of Greater Portland Building Owners & Managers Association of Oregon
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!
Rent price ripoff victory flyer
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.
21.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 177 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 1The Portland Metro Chamber / Portland Business Alliance will *always* pick the bottom line of large corporations, developers, and downtown property owners over what is in the public interest.
20.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 55 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
November 18, 2025 Honorable Portland Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Councilors, We write to express our opposition to the Detention Facility Impact Fee. While we understand your motivation for proposing such an ordinance, we write to ask you to consider the long-tterm implications and unintended consequences of this proposal. The Portland Metro Chamber (The Chamber) is greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce and represents the largest, most diverse network of businesses in the region. The Alliance advocates for business at all levels of government to support commerce, community health and the region's overall prosperity. We represent more than 2,100 members, from 27 counties, 13 states and virtually every industry sector. More than 80% of our members are small businesses We share your concerns with the current federal administration's antagonistic approach to our community, and we were grateful that half the members of this council joined over 175 elected officials and organizations signing on to our call to action for a unified voice of opposition to an unjustified federal troop deployment. For more than a century and a half-since before Oregon achieved statehood-Portland has been a city where civic expression, including protest, has played a defining role in our public life. Throughout this long history, the City has never required the subject of a protest to bear the financial burden associated with public safety, cleanup, or street closures. The proposal now under consideration would dramatically depart from that long-standing principle and create an avenue for targeted financial liability based solely on the political aims of others. This change would introduce significant long-term risks. Portland's political landscape has evolved over time and will continue to do so. A policy that allows elected officials to levy costs on entities that are the focus of protests-regardless of whether those entities organized,
1. Lack of Environmental Impact Evaluation To our knowledge, the City has never undertaken an environmental impact assessment of protest activity. If the environmental effects of demonstrations are a basis for new fees or restrictions, such analysis should be conducted before establishing a policy framework that selectively assigns financial responsibility. 2. Departure From Established Practice for Civic Events While the City routinely requires event organizers to cover public safety and right-of-way impacts for parades, marathons, and other permitted activities, this proposal would mark the first time a tax-paying business would be charged for costs associated with an event it did not host, sanction, or participate in. This is a significant shift in policy with far-reaching implications. 3. Risk of Creating a New Revenue Mechanism Targeting Businesses If adopted, this measure could establish a precedent enabling the City to levy impact fees whenever a business becomes the focus of a protest. Such a mechanism would send a chilling signal to the commercial real estate and broader business community. Portland competes with other cities and surrounding jurisdictions for investment; proposals that create unpredictable or punitive cost exposure threaten our competitiveness. 4. Absence of Protestor Accountability While the Chamber strongly supports the right to free speech and peaceful assembly, the current proposal places the entirety of the financial burden on the business being targeted-regardless of the actions of demonstrators. This raises a fundamental policy
Portland's success depends on fostering a stable, predictable, and fair business environment. We urge the Council to reconsider this proposal and engage stakeholders in developing a policy approach that honors our city's values, protects constitutional rights, and sustains the economic vitality that Portland depends on. Portland Metro Chamber Multifamily NW Oregon Smart Growth Home Building Association of Greater Portland Building Owners & Managers Association of Oregon
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!
Also sponsored by Councilor Koyama Lane!
20.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0@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.
20.11.2025 02:47 — 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 6
Glossy satin DSA bomber jackets with fall foliage
Glossy satin DSA bomber jackets with fall foliage
Glossy satin DSA bomber jackets with fall foliage
That's the DSA drip
19.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Rally with us!
19.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0We’ll be there to support the Algorithmic Price Fixing Ban and the Detention Fee Ordinance!
19.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Today 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
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