Candace Avalos and Elana Pirtle-Guiney

For The Oregonian/OregonLive

Avalos is a city councilor representing District 1-East Portland. Pirtle-Guiney is a city councilor representing District 2-North and Northeast Portland and serves as president of the Portland City Council.

It’s no longer meaningful to say we live in unprecedented times. Every day, new precedents are set as President Donald Trump and his administration enact new ways to threaten decency, unity and the legal protections our democracy was built on.

In Portland, we’re watching this play out in a very real way, hour by hour, as we join other progressive cities around the country as a target for this president’s power-mongering tactics to militarize our communities and wrest control over our peace, our democracy and our liv

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