VOZ Workers Rights Education Project and CIO (Center for Intercultural Organizing) are co-hosting a Movie Night! We will be showing "Los Trabajadores" which is a movie about two day laborers in Austin, TX. After the movie staff from VOZ will talk about different issues pertaining to the local day laborer community. Suggested Donation of $5 but nobody will be turned away. The movie will be shown at CIO office (700 N.Killingsworth) at 6pm on Wed, 11/19.

Please join the Portland Area Global AIDS Coalition and Africa AIDS Response and our many partners at an educational, informative World AIDS Day Event:  Words and Rhythms for Life

Monday, December 1, 2008

Tiffany Center

1410 SW Morrison Street

Portland

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Action Fair and Guest Speaker Michael Kaplan, Executive Director, Cascade AIDS Project

Admission:  Free

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  Benefit for Portland-Mutare Sister City/Africa AIDS Response

Speakers:  Mayor Tom Potter and his wife Karin Hansen

Hear Portland students share their experiences from their recent trip to Mutare, Zimbabwe

Thursday Nov 20th from 6 to 8 pm

Arts and Civil, Human, Union, LGBTIQQ & Women’s Rights

SEIU Local 503 Union Hall, 6407 SE Foster Blvd

November 20th Speakers:

Jo Ann Bowman, executive director of Oregon Action and former State representative

Eliana Machuca, Jobs with Justice organizer

Lannie Kali, director of Safe Communities NW and former staff organizer with Hillary Clinton's campaign

Kevin Easton, former Arts and Public Involvement staffer to Mayor Tom Potter and current executive director of the Equity Foundation.

These events are free and open to the public.

How does advertising create desire and shape identity? Is shopping a patriotic act? Is it better to buy local or buy nothing at all?

Please join the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) for Think & Drink, a new happy-hour conversation series that this season looks at consumer culture. Jelly Helm, former executive creative director of Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland headquarters, kicks off the series on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 6:30 at rontoms, 600 E. Burnside, in Portland, with a conversation about advertising’s role in creating desire and shaping identity. Free and open to the public.

TACS is working with The City of Portland on the recruiting for a Program Manager for the City of Portland/Multnomah County One-Stop Domestic Violence Service Center. The Center which will provide one location where domestic violence advocates, intervention specialists, prosecution and law enforcement personnel are available to provide services for victims and their children to help stop the cycle of violence in their families.

For immediate release   Contact: Mary Bauer, Communications Associate Regional Arts & Culture Council  |  www.racc.org 108 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR  97209-3318 503.823.5111  |  email: [email protected]   Through vision, leadership and service, the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of community life. 

November 18, 2008

The Right Brain Initiative continues to receive support  from local businesses and foundations

Don't let your clients be left out in the cold...teach them to overcome typical rental screening barriers with Ready To Rent! The next Certified Instructor Training will be held December 16-18.

The Ready to Rent curriculum provides housing readiness skills to people who have had past rental difficulties, have participants establish an action plan for becoming a successful renter and, upon completion, receive a Ready to Rent Certificate which is recognized by many housing providers and landlords as a compensating factor to some negative rental history.

Learn how to take your local business global and dramatically increase sales! Learn the "dos and don'ts" of site design by reviewing several case study sites. Leave with action steps to implement on your site for immediate impact.

(You may attend the second part even if you missed e-commerce part I)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM, 2069 NE Hoyt St., Portland, Oregon

Presenter: Adam Stites, President of Xtremez.com

$5 for Mercy Corps Northwest clients, $10 for community members. All proceeds benefit Mercy Corps Northwest programs.

Please RSVP to Heather at [email protected] or 503.236.1580 x211