Oregon Humanities

$1,000 Grant Awarded for Occupy Portland Teach-in

Oregon Humanities awards Responsive Program Grant to the Dill Pickle Club for November 14 teach-in

09 November 2011 | Permalink

Oregon Humanities has awarded a Responsive Program Grant of $1,000 to the Dill Pickle Club to support “The 99%: A Teach-in about Occupy Portland,” which will take place on November 14, 2011, 6-8 p.m. at the Portland Building Auditorium (1120 SW 5th Ave., Portland). The event is free and open to the public.

The teach-in will consist of short presentations that objectively bring together various perspectives on the current Occupy Wall Street movement, focusing on the economic, political, and social factors that have led to the movement as well as the movement’s impact on a local level.

Presenters include Randall Bluffstone (Portland State University professor of economics), John Coghlan (filmmaker, Occupy Portland Video Collective), Veronica Dujon (PSU professor of sociology), Michael Moore (organizer, Right2Survive), Nina Reierson (info booth volunteer, Occupy Portland), and Denis Theriault (Portland Mercury journalist).

Responsive Program Grants of up to $1,000 are awarded on an ongoing basis to nonprofit organizations in Oregon to fund projects and events that are not part of an organization’s regular programming. Instead, these grants support programs created in response to pressing, current issues or events that the applicant is uniquely qualified to help the public explore.

For more information, contact Jennifer Allen, Director of Programs at (503) 241-0543 / (800) 735-0543 ext. 118, or by email.