Black Lives STILL Matter in #BlackAugust + Know Your Rights Webinar + Physicians for Human Rights
This Saturday, August 22nd we will be hosting a Know Your Rights training with Don't Shoot Portland lawyer Juan Chavez of Oregon Justice Resource Center.
Please join us at 5pm via YouTube in order to join the session! Questions will be taken through the chat or by emailing contact@dontshootpdx.org. Please make your subject ‘KYR Webinar: August 22, 2020’.
Don’t Shoot Portland will be partnering with Physicians for Human Rights to support scientific research on the long term effects of riot control agents on protestors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our founder and executive director, Teressa Raiford, will be joining a webinar panel with PHR on Thursday, August 27th. This will be a discussion we encourage you to make time for!
Update 8/27/2020: The recorded session is available here.
We will be launching our Safer Space BLM: Mental Health Peer Support in the coming weeks; updates to follow.
Stop Killing Us: A Black Lives Still Matter is at Holding Contemporary until August 29th, open Thursday through Saturday from 12pm-5pm. Please come by and see our updated installation, now featuring a protest video and photography from Joseph Blake (@pdxwulf_). 916 NW Flanders St with full social distancing regulations in place. Masks required or we can provide!