The Portland EWOKS are excited to announce we are officially joining forces with PDX Alliance for Self-Care (PDX ASC)! This is a change that we have been working towards for many months now. Almost since the beginning, PDX ASC has been a key partner for the EWOKS, but up until now this has been an…
A Statement on Accountability from PDX Alliance for Self-Care and EWOKS
PDX Alliance for Self-Care (PDX ASC) and EWOKS are aware that in our community spaces there is a fire raging: survivors are being asked to justify their truths and abusers are being enabled. They are being asked to collect the stories of those that have been similarly harmed as a method of “bringing receipts” when…
EWOKS Spring Recap
Many of our members have gotten questions about where the EWOKS have been. We haven’t been as visible out on the ground at protests as much because of a combination of factors that many of our comrades have surely also experienced: the often unpredictable nature of direct actions and uncertainty about whether or not medic…
Chemical Weapons – Identification and Effects
Update May 17, 2021: Corrections have been made based on feedback from the Chemical Weapons Research Consortium (CWRC). Deepest thanks to them for helping us improve this community-sourced project. Check their munitions library for detailed information and visual references for the chemicals listed below. Update May 16, 2021: We’ve been alerted that some of the…
Statement 4/23/21
We work to keep everyone in our community safe, especially our B/IPoC community who is disproportionately targeted by the police. The same absolutely cannot be said of Mayor Wheeler. If he truly cared about the healing and recovery of this community, he would hold accountable the racist, militarized police force of which he is commissioner….
PDX ASC/EWOKS Joint Medical/ Mental Health Study
PDX Alliance for Self-Care and EWOKS are doing a research study on mental health diagnostics and treatment analytics affect communities of color, their mental health diagnosis, and the treatment analytics, particularly as they related to survey methodologies and the Eurocentric normative standards upon which diagnoses are made. We are also doing this work within the…
The Portland EWOKS 