This past Saturday, some one hundred and fifty workers and community supporters rallied in front of Georgia Pacific’s Portland facility speaking out for safe jobs. Dawn DesBrisay, the president of ILWU Local 40 and a member of the leadership of…
December 9th, 2010
“What we are learning is that the Working Families Party appeal in Oregon is with the same people who supported
Populist candidates a century ago, the populists in rural areas and disaffected “Reagan Democrats”…
December 3rd, 2010
Barbara Dudley recently sat down with the David Delk from the Alliance for Democracy to discuss the WFP, fusion voting, the Oregon State Bank, and the Korea Free Trade Agreement.
If you want to know the history of populism…
November 29th, 2010
Dear WFP supporter,
I am writing first and foremost to say thank you to all of you who supported me as a candidate for the Oregon Working Families Party. We set out with the goal of getting 1% of the…
November 29th, 2010
In 2009, when the depth of the nation’s economic crisis was only first being understood, the Working Families Party began quietly organizing around an issue which we will likely be hearing a lot more about in 2011: creating the…
October 17th, 2010