During a recent City Council meeting, Councilors gave their approval for the acquisition of 30 duplex units, which are set to be installed at the new Urban Campground now known as “The Crossings”. The decision came after careful consideration of various factors aimed at providing a sustainable and cost-effective solution for the community. In a […]

From the Us As We Are team: “In this video, we engage with a young unhoused family in Ashland, OR, and discuss the challenges and complexities of their situation. Through this lens, we also ponder the idea of “self-governing habitation zones,” or “village models” – alternative housing/shelter concepts where the inhabitance of a shelter or […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Roughly 1,800 nurses at Providence Portland Medical Center and two other Providence facilities will stage a five-day strike starting June 19 unless progress is made in contract bargaining, the Oregon Nurses Association announced Friday. Providence told KGW on Friday that it will not bargain with the union while the strike is pending […]

“ This was the third time in as many months that the city had threatened to evict Camp JTD and Camp Teddy—twin encampments in Philadelphia that have been protesting the city’s housing inequality since the start of the summer. Formed by a coalition of local activist groups OccupyPHA, Black and Brown Workers Cooperative, and Workers […]

BEND — Members of the Oregon Nurses Association have called off their planned strike after reaching a tentative agreement with St. Charles Bend. The union represents about 1,000 nurses at the hospital, according to a news release from the ONA. St. Charles Bend is part of St. Charles Health System, a four-hospital organization with more […]

Oregonians gathered in Salem to show their support for a bill that provides food assistance to people currently excluded because of their immigration status. The bill would help about 62,000 people get access to aid. A rally was held in Salem on Thursday to urge the passage of a bill that would provide food assistance […]

Nurses and clinicians who work for Providence Health in Portland and Seaside authorized plans over the weekend to move forward with a strike. Around 1,800 healthcare workers completed voting for three separate strikes on Sunday. In a statement, the healthcare workers’ union said the votes for all three strikes were “near unanimous,” though the organization […]

On We the People for June 7, 2023, Jason Houk talks with the McCoy family about their experiences living on the streets of Ashland Oregon. https://archive.org/details/we-the-people-7-7-23

Nurses say working conditions have grown unsafe for staff and patients Nurses at St. Charles Health System Bend — the largest health provider and employer in Central Oregon — announced on Friday they intend to strike, having submitted a legally required 10-day notice to the hospital. The announcement is the culmination of simmering tensions between […]