Addressing Hateful Actions and Ideologies
- Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crimes
The Coalition Against Hate Crimes (CAHC) was started in Portland, Oregon as a statewide partnership between community civil rights groups and local, state, and federal governmental agencies. The Coalition and its members support non-violent solutions to the problem of hate and hate crimes in Oregon. - Multnomah County District Attorney Bias Crimes Dashboard
A public dashboard maintained by the county’s district attorney that tracks all bias crimes reported to Portland Police and Oregon’s Bias Response Hotline. Bias crimes are broken down by zip code, kind of bias, as well as other measures. - Cure_PDX
Hate Crime Hotline Phone Number: 503-765-5964
The Ctrl+Alt+Del-Hate:PDX, an initiative of Cure Violence Global (CVG) in partnership with Parallel Networks (PN), aims to reduce conflict, hate, and violence in Portland and the surrounding areas by altering the norms relating to violence and groups that espouse the use of violence and providing an opportunity for collective hope and healing. - Portland United Against Hate
A coalition of 80+ community-based organizations, neighborhood groups, the City of Portland and other municipalities and municipal entities. Its mission is to track, respond to, and prevent acts of hate while providing the support that the communities need. - Western States Center
Western States Center works nationwide to build a future where all people can live, love, worship, and work free from bigotry and fear. Through a prism of race, gender, justice and equity, Western States Center works with communities and organizations to build movements, develop leaders, shift culture, and defend democracy.
**See WSC’s press release about Portland attacks and current work on antisemitism. - American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
ADC (Advocate, Defend, Connect) is a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. ADC is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S. ADC supports the human and civil rights of all people and opposes racism and bigotry in any form. - Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
**See JFREJ’s national campaign against antisemitism, which includes a poster and guide. - Southern Poverty Law Center
The SPLC monitors the activities of more than 1,600 domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazi movement, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, antigovernment militias, Christian Identity adherents and others. They also have a large educational project called Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) with many resources for youth, teachers, etc. - A More Perfect Union/Jewish Partnership for Democracy
We recruit and support Jewish institutions to make and achieve meaningful, action-based commitments to American democracy. These commitments ensure that locally rooted and relevant pro-democracy action is taking place in communities where it can be most impactful, and not just during national campaigns run by us or other organizations. Commitments represent intrinsically meaningful efforts to encourage a culture of democracy. - United States Department Of Justice Hate Crime Statistics
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program serves as the national repository for crime data voluntarily collected and submitted by law enforcement. Its primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management.
Ensure Basic Human Needs of Housing, Healthcare, Living Wages to decrease desperation, which can lead to more vulnerability to hateful ideologies
- Here Together
In order to ensure that the HereTogether-Metro homeless services measure is equitably spent in service of people living on the streets, a coalition of service providers, business leaders, government officials, leaders from communities of color and faith, and community advocates have created a region-wide response to homelessness that targets the roots of the problem and matches proven solutions — affordable homes, combined with flexible, wraparound services — with the scale and scope of the crisis. - National Low-Income Housing Coalition
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have quality homes that are accessible and affordable in communities of their choice. - Healthcare for All Oregon
Our vision is for a health care system that ensures comprehensive, high-quality health care to all, provides care based on patients’ needs rather than profits, focuses on prevention, effective treatment and improved medical outcomes, is publicly-financed, directing resources to medical care and minimizing administrative expenses and waste - Portland Jobs with Justice
Portland Jobs with Justice is a coalition of over 100 labor, faith, community and student organizations and individual activists taking action for workers’ rights and economic justice, especially with those most marginalized by our economic system such as people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people and women. We bring together labor, community, student, and faith voices at the national and local levels to win improvements in people’s lives and shape the public discourse on workers’ rights and the economy.
Learn more about the quotes in the exhibition
- Grace Paley: The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
- Martin Luther King: Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Pirkei Avot: It is not upon you to finish the work (of repairing the world), but neither are you at liberty to abandon it.