Announcements and press releases.
Join in solidarity with youth around our planet striking for climate justice on September 15. Strikes are planned in Bend, Eugene, Salem, and Portland. Everyone is invited to join youth in the streets. In Bend: Climate Strike … Read more
September 15 & 17 Fridays for the Future is calling for a global climate strike September 15th and a national coalition (including XRUS members) is organizing a massive march in NYC on September 17th to highlight the climate crisis … Read more
Join us Thursday, August 24, 2023: 6 PM tables, 6:30 PM panel@Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont, Portland Rumble #9 will focus on heat-related inequities, crisis management, resilience, and understanding the harms inflicted on the Lower Willamette. … Read more
Register before Friday, July 14 for APEC actions. XRPDX has been working in solidarity with the Pacific Northwest People Over Profit coalition to make plans for a Portland contingent to the preliminary sessions of the Asian … Read more
In a stunning announcement Multnomah County filed a lawsuit seeking $51 billion against more than a dozen fossil fuel companies for their role in the deadly 2021 heat dome that was responsible for a large number … Read more
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, info tables 6 pm, panel 6:30 @ Central Lutheran Church, 1820 NE 21st Avenue, Portland The focus for Rumble #8 will be the proximity of the CEI Hub to Forest Park, … Read more
XR PDX and allies will be taking to the streets to say it’s time to transition from doom to bloom. We are planning three actions: April 24th, Noon, Pioneer Courthouse Square Let’s pop the fossil fuel … Read more
this binding, overarching directive to the City to prevent new fossil fuel infrastructure and phase out fossil fuels (in line with climate science and environmental justice) will lead to concrete policy instead of mere promises
By The XRUS Chapter Engagement and Support Working Group(Leah, Philip, and Ellen) The next few months and years are utterly crucial for mitigating the worst impacts of climate change. The United States, as one of the wealthiest nations … Read more
