Join us for community workshops + art activations!
Thank you to the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) for having us during your annual conference in Portland! We always appreciate the opportunity to share research from our Riot Control Agents (RCA) Report and insight into our class action lawsuit that stopped the use of tear gas in 2020.
Advocacy in this form is meant to become a blueprint moving forward! Thank you to those working to platform these important conversations and making sure that those most impacted are also stakeholders.
Board President Taishona Carpenter presenting at IAPHS 2026
October is American Archives Month, and we’re excited about our presentation at the Oral History Association’s annual conference on October 17 taking place here in Portland.
We will host an oral history practice workshop specifically for community-based archives like ours! The weekend itinerary can be viewed here, and details on our 8:15 - 9:45am session are here.
Saturday, October 24: A Full Day & Night of Art & Archives with Don’t Shoot Portland!
Join us for an all day archives fair at the Oregon Historical Society from 10:00am - 1pm with Oregon Public Broadcasting, City of Portland Archives, Albina Music Trust and more! We will share tips on how to preserve your own collections at home, as well as how to work through old home videos and audio tape. This is also an opportunity to view the incredible historical collections from OHS.
Free archival kits will be distributed to those who register for the event, first come first serve!
Liberated Archives for Black Lives at the Low End
670 N Russell
Saturday October 24th 4:00pm - 7pm
Join us for a special evening as we listen to rare, unedited interviews featuring Maya Angelou, Septima Clark, Angela Davis, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Betty Shabazz X, and many more.
This is our first public listening of I Dream a World—a sweeping archive of interviews with 75 of the most influential Black women in American history. To celebrate Archives Month, we invite you to join us in listening to these newly unearthed oral histories and audio gems.
Featuring a solo exhibition by University of Oregon SCUA 2025/2026 Research Fellow Taishona Carpenter.
