OR: City council spends public $ for IA day laborer theatre!
No this isn't a joke... these idiots are spending tax money on grants to an open borders, pro-illegal alien advocacy group to hold "day labor theatre" and
afternoons of poetry and music for the illegal alien day laborers in the City of Portlands day labor center.....this is just so incredibly ridiculous and absurd.
Grant hopes to put human face on day labor site
City’s ‘Vision into Action’ funds will help Voz community outreach program
By Jennifer Anderson
The Portland Tribune, Aug 20, 2008, Updated Aug 20, 2008
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Day laborers wait in the December rain at Southeast Sixth Avenue and Ankeny Street for possible work. The city of Portland is providing a grant to help a day labor site reach out to the community.
Despite ongoing controversy about the city’s day laborer hire site, the Portland City Council is investing another $10,000 in the project, this time in the form of a grant that will support the site’s outreach to the community through neighborhood cleanups, music, poetry, dance and theater.
Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project, the nonprofit that runs the site at Northeast MLK and Everett Street, will use the so-called “Vision into Actionâ€