Bring your thoughts and ideas. Hear about and contribute to the strategy and energy to overturn "Constitutional Amendments 36", Oregon's ban on marriage for LGBT people, in 2012. Learn about the great resources and tools available to communities who choose to work on the grassroots campaign. read more-->

Basic Rights Oregon leads the way to Freedom to Marry in election year 2012
when Oregon voters will make an important equality decision about civil marriage... let the conversations begin
by Dinah Urell

REMEMBER MEASURE 36 in 2004 when some 3000 committed gay and lesbian Oregonian couples were granted marriage licenses, no sooner that election year, opposition group the Oregon Family council swooped in to run the campaign to ban same-sex marriage. read more-->

In the Mood for Nude
4th Annual Au Naturel at CCC
by Elia Seely

Traditional, exceptional, reviled, and revealed—the nude human figure in art is a subject of beauty, controversy, and exploration. Reflective of a society’s attitudes towards sexuality and the human form, the depiction of the nude, particularly the female, has changed drastically over time. As attitudes and ways of seeing evolve, so does the representation of the human form in art—or perhaps the exploratory vision of the artist changes the way we see. read more-->

I-28: The New and Improved medical marijuana bill heads toward the November 2010 ballot
Local OMMP advocate Angela Fairless will help make it happen.

Marijuana activists across the country are petitioning more than ever since the change in the Obama administration's federal policy on states' regulation of medical marijuana, and dispensaries are now becoming well known in states other than California. Oregon is one of four states pushing for full legalization of marijuana this year. And while legalization advocates are campaigning to get pot sold in liquor stores, some Oregon medical marijuana patients are pushing for non-profit dispensaries, help for the poorest patients, and scientific research. read more-->