Portland DSA

Just another day in the ol’ USA with corporate lobbyists threatening local elected officials so they stop asking basic questions and hand over the public’s $.

This is disgusting.

At a time when our trans siblings are under attack, organizations have to draw lines in the sand whether it profits them or not.

This is the bare minimum.

Moore, who runs the political action committee United for Portland, which was set up by the Metro Chamber, says he thinks the "socialists are trying to take over the City Council and turn it into an ideological showcase for the rest of the country." The chamber's aim? "To stop DSA from taking over the council.'

Interesting 🤔

Corporate grifters 🤝 far right extremists

Providing cover to more conservative councilors to work against progressive outcomes simply to enhance one’s own influence and power as a lobbyist is disgusting behavior that hurts the working class.

We deserve a lot more from labor “leaders” than self-serving inside baseball shenanigans.

How Portland Labor Stopped a Backroom Deal to Welcome Cops into Its Ranks - The Call Grassroots organizing stopped the admission of a Portland, Oregon, police union to the local labor council.

Early last year, Wimmer angered unionists and progressives when she attempted to add the police union as members of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council (NOLC) and attacked Sameer Kanal on behalf of the PPA.

NOLC members forced a vote to clarify that the PPA is not a member of the labor council.

Having alienated all of the progressive caucus councilors with her antics, Wimmer’s power relies on mobilizing the most conservative members on council against progressive outcomes.

This self-serving approach from a supposedly progressive labor leader is infuriating to rank-and-file unionists.

📢 PCC Strike instructions 🚨

Wednesday, March 11👇

In this article, you will find NOLC labor leader Laurie Wimmer:

- conspiring to undermine the city charter with a Stoel Rives lawyer,
- lobbying to keep progressive councilors out of city leadership,
- failing to report her lobbying after Q1 2025,
- calling DSA the “MAGA of the left”,

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rally shot from saturday

Hundreds of you rallied and marched this past Saturday! Now, it's time to mobilize for a strike! 🪧

Please head to the picket lines tomorrow (Wednesday, March 11th) at 10:30am (all campuses) when Portland Community College Staff and Faculty plan to WALK OUT!

💙Info: www.pccstrike.com

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In the Shadows: Records Show Labor Leader’s Campaign to Influence City Councilors Labor Council Secretary Laurie Wimmer privately suggested councilors sue the city to stop “MAGA of the left” from choosing council president.

New records reveal a top labor executive quietly pushed a Portland councilor to sue the city and let the mayor pick the next council president—raising fresh questions about power and transparency at City Hall.

In light of the Mercury article I guess I’ll just name this was Laurie Wimmer.

Standing up for Palestine early on had consequences, and I don’t regret it. I have to face myself in the mirror each day, despite politics and consequences.

I believe if we do that, the people will rally behind us.

We’ve been saying…

portlanddsa.org/the-thorn/

- rescinding a party invitation (with an unhinged voicemail) from Councilor Koyama Lane for taking a public position against the police union joining NOLC,
- accusing progressive councilors of race baiting for identifying structural racism, &
- SO MUCH MORE!

In this article, you will find NOLC labor leader Laurie Wimmer:

- conspiring to undermine the city charter with a Stoel Rives lawyer,
- lobbying to keep progressive councilors out of city leadership,
- failing to report her lobbying after Q1 2025,
- calling DSA the “MAGA of the left”,

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It's official- Portland DSA has more than 3000 members! We're going from strength to strength, with democracy and solidarity as our watchwords. If you want to be part of the largest socialist organization in the US, the time is now-> dsausa.org/join

Join DSA. Become a member today. Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

@demsocialists.bsky.social is at 100,000 members!
@portlanddsa.bsky.social is at 3000 members!
And now Salem DSA is at 200 members!

Hell yeah!
Come join DSA in your local area if you want to make a difference!

dsausa.org/join

We’re at the Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals and the Federation of Classified Employees strike rally today!

Hey Portland Community College, stop disrespecting your workers and undermining public education!

City and state leaders fall all over themselves to please the agents of the ruling class and their patrons — even though they are a tiny minority of the population — because money is power in our system.

Media tries to convince us that these lobbyists are legitimate and authoritative voices.

These people work to break unions, dismantle public services, and erode environmental protections.

They steer public money toward private actors who are already connected and powerful.

They try to destroy preschool for all. They want to raid the Portland Clean Energy Fund.

Institutions of the ruling class — like chambers of commerce — cynically use the language of “small business” to try to cover who they really work for: the richest people and most powerful corporations.

The PMC works for Google, Amazon, the big banks, Zenith Energy, and local downtown developers.

Incredibly, the local ruling class has managed to get you to pay the salaries of their operatives at the Portland Metro Chamber.

If we are going to have an economy that works for all of us, we need to understand who these people are and sever their control over the levers of government.

At the national / international level, we are seeing the ruling class unmasked. We are seeing more clearly who these people are and how they hold and exercise power.

Portland has its own ruling class.

They create institutions like the Portland Metro Chamber to do their will at the city & state.

Wait, so you’re telling me that a bunch of high-paid corporate lobbyists subsidized by public $ were misleading the public about tax flight to try to cut taxes for the rich?

Nah, couldn’t be!

Wait, so you’re telling me that a bunch of high-paid corporate lobbyists subsidized by public $ were misleading the public about tax flight to try to cut taxes for the rich?

Nah, couldn’t be!

"Portland Metro Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan is another vocal skeptic of the PFA tax. Last year, he told Willamette Week that there were "years of clear and irrefutable data [indicating the tax] is having an impact on our highly mobile middle class and higher-income earners who are choosing to leave." Hoan maintains his concerns, despite the new county data. In a March 5 comment, Hoan told the Mercury that "it is no accident that Multnomah County is deep in economic recession while surrounding counties like Clark County are seeing economic success it is our policy choices." He pointed to Preschool for All, as well as Metro's Supportive Housing Services marginal income tax, as examples of the policy choices he believes have caused wealthy people to leave the Portland metro area. The Metro Chamber uses IRS data, which isn't as up-to-date as county tax return statistics, to support their conclusions."

I personally am more concerned about my public dollars helping pay 45% of Andrew Hoan's $333,000 salary through Clean & Safe. PERSONALLY.

(from: www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/03...)

DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?