Recent Blog Posts

Back from the brink

While I'm still processing the full import of Obama's win -- I'll blog about it more later -- one very, very encouraging item that's popped up is his intention to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. From Spencer Ackerman: Less than a week after his election, and more th... Read more

Mobilizing While the Time is Right

This has been an incredible week! In Portland, within a half and hour after the polls closed on Tuesday, voters began loudly celebrating the election of Barak Obama. As a 42 year old woman, I can say that I have never seen an election night like this. With cars honking, ... Read more

KBOO on Face to Face

Earlier this year KBOO Outreach Coordinator Toni Tabora Roberts and volunteer Trillium Shannon appeared on the Portland Community Media program, Face to Face. Watch and enjoy. Read more

Food For Thought And Action: Springboard Social Innovation Forum

Listen to Radiozine on Tuesday, November 11th at 10:00 a.m. My guests will be Amy Pearl, Executive Director of Springboard Innovation and Katherine Ball, Organizer of the Social Innovation Forum. Springboard Innovation, a Portland-based nonprofit, sponsors the forum as pa... Read more

Election night at the Multnomah County Election Office

November 4, 2008 outside of the Multnomah County election office the line of voters waiting to cast their vote strung along SE Morrison Street for two blocks estimated to take an hour plus to get through. Multnomah County officials were on site with special forms for th... Read more