Author: Team BerniePDX

Team AJ will be hosting in-person Volunteer Action Nights on Thursdays at 222 NW Davis Street, from 6-8pm. Get a chance to meet AJ and take action for the campaign! 

RSVP Here before attending, so they know to expect you. For everyone’s safety, volunteers for this in-person event must be vaccinated and wear a mask. Virtual volunteer opportunities are coming soon! 

WHY BERNIEPDX SUPPORTS AJ: AJ was born and raised in Portland, and she understands our struggles. She’s a renter who relies on public transportation. She has a record of fighting for racial and economic justice, which Portland urgently needs. AJ’s priorities for the City include stopping the sweeps; distributing resources for pandemic relief; working to ensure that all Portlanders have safe, lead-free drinking water; and strengthening City Hall’s relationship with Portland Public Schools. AJ’s leadership on City Council will be a win for Portland.

RSVP Here. Location: 222 NW Davis St.

Please sign PNHP’s petition to the Biden administration urging them to stop privatizing Medicare!

Here’s some background on what’s going on:

In 2020, the Trump Administration launched a new policy “experiment” designed to privatize traditional Medicare.

Under this model, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could move more than 30 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries into mostly commercial, for-profit plans called Direct Contracting Entities (DCE) without the enrollees’ understanding or consent.

The Biden Administration is moving the DCE program forward, threatening the future of Medicare as we know it.

SIGN HERE to tell President Biden to implement the ‘End the Pandemic Now’ Plan!

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of people in low-income nations still do not have access to COVID vaccines, test kits and treatments — an avoidable tragedy caused by the pharmaceutical industry’s focus on profits over lives.

Pharmaceutical monopolies’ ongoing refusal to allow more vaccine production is causing thousands of needless deaths abroad each day, while also giving rise to dangerous variants like Omicron and Delta that are prolonging the pandemic everywhere.

To prevent wave after wave of additional COVID variants, the U.S. must help make COVID vaccines, tests and treatments available worldwide.

The End the Pandemic Now plan in Congress (H. Con. Res. 60) lays out a clear roadmap for how to increase global production of critical medical supplies by temporarily waiving pharmaceutical monopoly rules that block increased production, by sharing vaccine-making recipes and know-how with qualified producers, and by helping fund the speed-up of production. Thankfully, the Biden administration already has the authority to implement these policies without congressional action.

Please sign our petition today, and tell President Biden to implement the End the Pandemic Now plan immediately and help save millions of lives around the globe.

There are lots of great ways to show your support for workers this month! Visit www.berniepdx.us/events or click the Events tab on the menu bar to see the upcoming rallies, pickets, and more.

RSVP Here for the Zoom link.

As we head into the third year of the COVID pandemic, billions of people worldwide still don’t have access to vaccines, tests and treatments. As a result, thousands of people continue dying needlessly each day and we’re faced with wave after wave of variants that are prolonging the pandemic for everyone.

The only way to end this cycle of death and disease, and the resulting economic and social hardships that go along with it, is to produce and equitably distribute enough COVID vaccines, test kits and treatments for everyone who needs them. What’s standing in the way? Pharmaceutical monopolies’ greed.

There are over 100 facilities worldwide that could be producing more mRNA vaccines if only given permission to do so, but Moderna and Pfizer refuse to let them. We need the Biden administration to surpass the pharma monopolies by implementing the “End the Pandemic Now” plan: waiving intellectual property rules standing in the way of COVID vaccine, test kit & treatment production; sharing vaccine-making recipes and other technical know-how with qualified producers; and speeding the creation of regional production hubs around the world.

Join us at 6:00pm on Thursday, March 3 to learn more about how ongoing vaccine and treatment inequality is affecting communities here in the Pacific Northwest and around the world — and, more importantly, what you can do about it.

The teach-in’s speaker lineup so far includes:
University of Washington on the endless waves of COVID variants
Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans on how vaccine inequities have impacted their family in India
Sunrise Movement PDX on how the pandemic is affecting the young folks and our collective future
Trade Justice Education Fund on how you can support the “End the Pandemic Now” plan

Together, we CAN end the COVID pandemic. But we need to create a movement strong enough to force our government to put our health and safety ahead of pharma profits. Please help us. RSVP for the teach-in now.

RSVP Here for the Zoom link.

Click here to tell lawmakers that we must pay farmworkers for every hour they work! Oregon farmworkers ensure our families are healthy and well-fed in every corner of the state. Their hard work supports our entire economy. They deserve to be paid for every hour of their essential, difficult, and often dangerous work. And yet, in 2020, while working through wildfires and ice storms, Oregon farmworkers made, on average, less than $20,000 a year

Sign the petition to Starbucks: Halt all union-busting tactics! Despite being a self-proclaimed progressive company, Starbucks leadership continues to pursue an agenda that prioritizes profit over people at every turn. It is overwhelmingly clear that Starbucks will stop at almost nothing to keep workers from unionizing. Sign the petition to show Starbucks management that the public supports the workers’ unionizing effort! 

Read the statement here.

City Council has refused to settle a fair contract with City workers, represented by the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU). The City’s “last-and-final offer” leaves City workers with a 5% wage cut.

A strike of BDS workers would immediately shut down construction all over the city, laying off thousands of electricians, carpenters, plumbers, Pagepainters, laborers and other essential workers. The construction of much needed housing would grind to a halt, and BDS is already telling contractors they would have no ability to maintain permit operations.

We Demand Essential Wages for Essential Workers! City Council: Settle a Fair Contract! Don’t Force a Strike!

Send City Council a letter (click, sign, share) https://tinyurl.com/dctuletter

Support the solidarity fund: https://tinyurl.com/27pemrd8

Location: Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave.