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Contents. 2016 Portland, Oregon riots. On November 10, 2016, three days of protests in Portland, Oregon, turned into a riot, when a group of anarchists [ 2 ][ 7 ] broke off from a larger group of peaceful protesters who were opposed to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
The Mission Theater and Pub is a movie theater and pub located in the northwest Portland, Oregon. [1] Formerly a Swedish church and union hall, the theater was re-opened as a McMenamins establishment in 1987. [ 2 ]
The Star Theater, formerly known as Princess Theatre and several other names, is a historic former silent film theater in Portland, Oregon, United States.The theater currently operates as a live music and performance space; in the past, it has operated as a film theater as well as a burlesque theater and an adult movie theater.
portland5.com. Keller Auditorium, formerly known as the Portland Municipal Auditorium, the Portland Public Auditorium, and the Portland Civic Auditorium, is a performing arts center located on Clay Street in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Portland's Centers for the Arts. Opened in 1917, the venue first changed names ...
Managers of the theatre were supportive of the censorship board and refused to show the film a year before the ordinance was enacted. [4] [5] The theater hosted a town hall event in 1928 about the proposition of a new bridge over the Willamette River in St. Johns. The St. Johns Bridge was completed in 1931. [6]
1900 to 1970. [edit] Beatrice Morrow Cannady, shortly after founding the Portland chapter of the NAACPand joining the editorial staff of The Advocate, organized Portland's protest to the racist film The Birth of a Nationin 1915.[8] The protests resulted in a city ordinance banning films that incite racial hatred.
The Clinton Street Theater is a theater located in southeast Portland, Oregon. It is believed to be the second oldest operating movie house in the city and one of the oldest continually operating cinemas in the United States. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The theater was designed by Charles A. Duke in 1913, built in 1914, and opened as The Clinton in 1915.
The term New Left was popularised in the United States in an open letter written in 1960 by sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), entitled Letter to the New Left. [158] Mills argued for a new leftist ideology, moving away from the traditional focus on labor issues , towards issues such as opposing alienation, anomie and authoritarianism.