Leading with Values

    • ICE makes our communities less safe. When people are afraid that interacting with government could put themselves, their family or their neighbors at risk, they are less likely to report crimes, seek help or cooperate with local authorities. Masked federal agents conducting aggressive immigration enforcement also create fear and instability in neighborhoods that should be able to trust their public institutions.


    • We need to hold every ICE officer accountable for their actions — despite our federal government’s refusal to do so. No badge, agency or federal directive should put someone above the law – or beyond its protections.


    • Portland should work with state and county partners to pursue every avenue available for accountability. That could include independent investigations, civil enforcement, public documentation of abuses and a truth and reconciliation process that creates a record of what happened, gives affected communities a voice and identifies avenues for accountability and repair.

    • Being ‘woke’ means being awakened to injustice. We refuse to let anyone turn that into an insult.”

    • Now is not just the time to defend diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s time to lean even harder into Portland’s values.

    • When anyone in our community is attacked, we should all roll for initiative.

    • When businesses don't pay their workers enough to live, taxpayers pick up the tab. People still need housing, food, health care and child care. If a company's business model depends on public programs making up the difference between its wages and the actual cost of living, Portland shouldn't subsidize that model. Those businesses should pay more. A lot more.

    • Just societies limit human greed and avarice while supporting working people and families in building generational wealth.

    • We can welcome genuine philanthropy while defending Portland from rapacious capitalism.

    • Extreme wealth should come with an extreme responsibility to the community that made it possible. Billionaires should not get richer by extracting wealth from our workers, neighborhoods and public resources.

    • We should reject the idea that Portland is “hostile to business.” We’re a great place for businesses that are great for us — businesses that immerse themselves in our communities and pursue the public good as much as they seek profits.

    • We don’t owe our support, subsidies or attention to businesses that treat people and communities as commodities to be used and leveraged purely for profit.

    • If the new Blazers ownership group won’t commit to keeping the team in Portland, we don’t need to commit anything to them in return.