Wednesday, November 14, 7:00pm
Board Room, Mult Bldg, 501 SE Hawthorne
Sponsor: League of Women Voters of Portland (503) 228-1675
"How Portland's Neighborhood System Serves the City Today and In the Future." The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. The panel discussion coincides with the release of the League's report, "Part II: How Portland's Neighborhood Program Works Today," available on the League's web site (www.lwvpdx.org) after November 1. Other documents produced by the League as part of its study, a history of the Neighborhood Program, and results of surveys of Neighborhood Associations are also accessible on the League's web site.
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government.

Sunday, November 18
Seattle Central Community College
Speaker  Aaron Dixon, Paul D'Amato, Sara Rich
Phone Contact  (206) 931-2922
Sponsor: SCCC International Socialsit Organization
The US/Israeli war on the Middle East is increasing the bloodshed and chaos. The "war on terror" legitimizes torture, racism and is stripping away our rights. Millions of people struggle just to get by while our heedless leaders waste billions of dollars on war. There is widespread anger at the these sick priorities but little organized response. Come hear what Socialists have to say about how we got here and how we can win a world free of war, racism, exploitation and oppression.
$10 all day • $6 daytime or evening • for tickets or more information, call (206) 931-2922 or send email to seattleiso@yahoo.com
http://www.nwsocialist.org/2006/
For car pool from Portland email pdxiso@yahoo.com

Friday through Sunday, November 17 (from 6pm) to 19
Friday @ Reed College,3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.; Saturday and Sunday at Lewis and Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Phone Contact  (269) 569-1990
Sponsor  Portland SDS
Students for a Democratic Society (LC SDS) is hosting the First Northwest Regional SDS conference November 17th-19th. The opening and registration are at Reed College's Psychology Building. Workshops and discussion groups will be going on all day (9am registration, but come by whenever) in the Miller Building at Lewis and Clark from November 18-19th.
SDS is currently trying to form a radical, multi-issue, democratically organized group that is broad and inclusive - encompassing of the Left. A sister organization, Movement for a

Democratic Society, was also created for those who did not consider themselves students. We invite all activists and activist groups to attend the conference and actively participate in it. If you would like more information on the conference go to:
http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/nwregional
If you plan to attend the convention from Nov. 17-19th PLEASE RSVP so we can estimate how many people are coming. You can RSVP here: http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/national_convention.cgi

Tuesday, November 21, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Portland State University, Room 298 Smith Center
Speaker:  Rose City Copwatch (503) 725-8777
Sponsor: Students for Unity pdxunity@yahoo.com
Come learn what your rights are while dealing with police, and how to legally observe police in your community, to create police account ability.

Monday, November 27, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Pacific University, 2043 College Way, Taylor Auditorium, Marsh Hall Rm. 216
Speaker:  Christian Parenti
Phone Contact: Annamaria Pagano, (971) 322-8944
Sponsor:  Pacific University; Politics and Law Forum
"Christian Parenti is an internationally acclaimed scholar and journalist who has written on a wide range of topics, from the U.S. prison system to surveillance in the United States to U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Correspondent for "The Nation". Author: The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (The New Press, 2004); The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror (Basic Books, 2003); Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Verso, 1999). A free public talk on his experiences as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Iraq...
http://www.pacificu.edu/news/detail.cfm?NEWS_ID=2338&CATEGORY_ID=1

NEWS RELEASE - For Immediate Release - October 25, 2006
Contact: Kathleen Todd, (503) 988-3450 kathleen.m.todd@co.multnomah.or.us
Consider joining a Citizen Budget Advisory Committee (CBAC). Citizen Budget Advisory Committees directly advise county commissioners. CBACs provide you a way to make your voice heard. Give the Multnomah County Office of Citizen Involvement a call at (503) 988-3450 or e-mail us at citizen.involvement@co.multnomah.or.us
http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/?c=29385&a=135561