Erick Lyle is a writer, musician, activist, and zine editor, and most recently, author of On the Lower Frequencies : A Secret History of the City.

THURSDAY, JUNE 26th, at 7pm Erick Lyle will be at Reading Frenzy, 921 Southwest Oak .

Monday June 30^th at 7:30pm he’ll be at Powells on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

http://onthelowerfrequencies.com

Two protestors
have tied themselves to trees outside of Portland's City Hall. 

The two are
organizers with the homeless sit-in that was dismantled by Portland police two
weeks ago.

KBOO's Kyle Burris reports from in front of City
Hall:

Building on the work of visionPDX, the Portland Plan
is a citywide effort to guide the physical, economic, social, cultural
and environmental development of Portland over the next 30 years.  City Repair, among many projects,
seeks to activate people to be part of the communities around them, as
well as part of the decision-making that shapes the future of their

Eric Sten describes his successes in housing for the homeless

An event was held last night at Hollywood Theatre called ”Think Outside the Cardboard Box”. 

The purpose of the event was to try to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness in the city of Portland.

April was National Fair Housing Month, commemorating the April 11, 1968 enactment of the Fair Housing Act by Lyndon Johnson. The Oregon Fair Housing Council marked the 40th anniversary last Wednesday with the first ever 'fair housing' bus tour of a US city.

The tour took participants through Portland, with a view toward historical housing discrimination.

A group of homeless protestors have been camped out in front of city hall for the last ten days.  The protestors are meeting with the mayor this afternoon and will be speaking before City Council on Wednesday.

KBOO’s Kyle Burris interviewed one of the protestors, Joseph Vanderheiden, about what they want to see changed and about being harassed by the police:

Twenty-seven homeless people sat down out side city hall last night, and they say they plan to stay there until city government finds somewhere for them to live.