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The City of Portland, in conjunction with Multnomah County, is considering building a new, permanent, two hundred bed shelter in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. The houseless new shelter would be the eighth in that district, and the largest, and it would offer additional services including job search help and counseling services. The Old Town Chinatown neighborhood Association has not taken a stand on the issue, but will wait for two public meetings before deciding whether to support the shelter or not. The public meetings are scheduled for September Sixth: The first will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at University of Oregon, 70 North West Couch St. The second will be held at the Central City Concern Old Town Recovery Center, 33 North West Broadway, and will run from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
A 10-day march against racism kicked off today in Charlottesville, Virginia, with the goal of covering a 112-mile route to Washington D-C. The protest is called “The March to Confront White Supremacy” and was organized by a coalition of activists from organizations such as the Women's March, The Movement for Black Lives, the AFL-CIO, and Democracy Spring. The organizers are calling for the removal of all Confederate statues and monuments, for dropping the charges against those arrested for protesting the Ku Klux Klan, and the impeachment of Trump. The march began in Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park, which organizers say has become the home of a modern civil rights movement. Currently, over 200 people have registered for the march, which ends September 6th in the nation’s capital.
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted nine Palestinians in the occupied area of West Bank. The victims, some of who are children, were taken from their homes. Many other homes were also forcefully invaded and searched by Israeli forces. Following these incidents, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, released a statement that he will not remove Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Israel Security Agency has been reporting on the rise of the Revolt movement, a new generation Jewish extremist group. The group has been blamed for recent abductions and arson attacks against Palestinians in West Bank. Since the beginning of this year, the Israeli government has issued forty-seven administrative orders against members of Revolt, twenty-eight of which are still active. Only five members of the group have been arrested.
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