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Opening spaces and providing support for people with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

Building Coalition and holding space for community to organize, navigate, create.

SYSTEMS CHANGE

Training and educating organizations, coalitions, and community groups to advance liberatory practices within systems.

LIBERATION WORK

Programming to Connect Community, Reconnect to Culture, Reawaken our Spirits, and Reimagining and Defining our Futures.

Walking Our Talk…

We honor our Indigenous siblings who made their stand on the hallowed ground at Wounded Knee. We honor our stolen African siblings, who found ways to keep their children fed while teaching them to look the world in the eye. We honor our Latinx siblings who marched in the Plaza de Mayo for the disappeared, willing the world to see. We honor our Asian siblings, who wield leaf blowers against the smoke in our eyes. We honor the brick-throwers, the crawlers up the capitol steps, and the reclaimers of the languages we knew before we grew thorns on our tongues. We honor your stories, your songs, and your survivance. We commit to working toward creating a world that is grounded in the wisdom you’ve imparted to us. We honor your joy, your strength, your resilience, and your vision, and move forward knowing that your gifts live within us all. Your resistance has provided us with a roadmap to liberation. We are still here. And we rise.

What We’re About

UPRISE opens spaces and provides support for those with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities. We are embedded in the communities we seek to support which means we are also dealing with the same impacts as our community members.

Our work focuses on supporting Black, Indigenous People of Color, poor folks, folks who are Disabled/chronically ill, and the Queer/Trans Community. UPRISE does a lot of work through in person storytelling and belonging events, community organizing, training and civic engagement education. Our communities have encountered many obstacles in getting our basic needs met, but as our ancestors before us, we are survivors and so we adapt. We offer online and hybrid events to decrease isolation, develop mutual aid networks, and build coalitions. Our work centers on the concept that we are stronger together, building coalition and community power with those most impacted.

Happening Now

Thanks and Giving: How to Support Your Community

Thanks and Giving: How to Support Your Community

This week is a big week for traditions, family and food. These traditions have come at a harmful cost. The creation of a story that erases the narrative of the original people of this land, the fractured generations of family and culture lost and changed or destroyed...

Talk the Talk

The Uprise Collective Launches New Website

The Uprise Collective Launches New Website

The year 2025 marks 7 years since The UPRISE Collective came to life! Many people, cultures and religions believe in 7 year cycles. That the 7th year marks a time of renewal or change. Many cultures also believe that we should be intentional with how we live our...

Manufacturing Chaos

Manufacturing Chaos

The UPRISE Collective operating and living in the “war zone”...cue, eye roll track. Just to be clear there is no war zone in Portland and we don’t take that language lightly.  There are people, communities and countries currently living in the realities of actual...

UPRISE Collective Programming & Community Education

UPRISE Collective Programming & Community Education

Our community programming jumps into full speed this month with our Selah Series. Selah is our Storyteller series with speakers sharing their lived experience and covers Creation Stories, Healing Stories and Resistance Stories. Our community programming is the...

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