> Powell's Books recently announced its first-ever warehouse sale that will run from June 1-2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the chain's supply warehouse at 2720 Northwest 29th Avenue.
Oregon lawmakers 2024 statewide listening tour to gather input on how to fund and invest in #transportation in 2025, first stop is happening in #Portland on June 4th, at 5 pm.
If you are a person with skills, this has potential. No connection to the seller, might be a scam, and all the caveats. On the other hand, that's an interesting project.
@kevbob Makes one almost wonder if it's really a 4003, they knocked the thing over on stage, got chewed out late into this morning, broke down and forked over the $2k plus for replacement, and are now the proud owner of their own screw-up.
Or, they stole it, dropped it, and would be glad to get a quick $200 before anyone catches up.
As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected #Indigenous access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near #Portland#Oregon.
“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk), author of the cookbook Chími Nu’am, says Native foods have a stigma---unless of course they’re on the menu at a #BayArea Michelin-starred French restaurant.
“They have rabbit, and quail, and deer meat, and our mushrooms, and our fish, and our shellfish, and all of that, that they are serving as the height of what you could eat as a human being. But they’re unavailable to the people who originally cultivated these foods into existence,” Olson says.
But sharing #Indigenous foods with the non-Native public can be hazardous. For one thing, there's the risk that non-Natives will commercialize, overharvest, "wildcraft" and "forage" the foods to death.
There are health hazards, too. Camas, for instance, is easily mistaken for ☠️ death camas 💀 and guess what happens when you eat death camas?
@glassdelusion It sounds like a terrible situation. I've not ever heard of this happening in Seattle, that I can remember, but I cannot imagine why it wouldn't happen here (Seattle): there are lots of stretches of the Burke-Gilman trail without any bollards at all.
#Portland, OR 🇺🇸 is the first “smoke stop” on the southbound #Amtrak Coast Starlight: everyone who wants may get off the train for a moment and stretch their legs. The lovely departure board in the main hall dates back to pre-digital times. And we again meet the Cascades #Talgo.
The contrast with failed #VisionZero plans like #Portland's seems pretty basic: "They said: 'You as provider of the road transport system are no longer allowed to kill people on that mass level that you've done'
#VisionZero has worked when the adopted plan actually mandated changes to infrastructure instead of wishes for "safety funding". Here, we let people keep driving after they participate in the city/state killing someone with their car, because "we all need to drive." If we're going to hold drivers accountable, we need to make it easy & convenient to get to and from the bar without driving, make infrastructure where bad driving will break the vehicle, require drivers actually learn how to drive.