Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

💻Data Center Moratorium Rally + Lobby Day
📅September 8th
⏰9 am-5 pm (Rally is at 12:30pm on the North Side Capitol steps and open to all) 8:30 to 9 am gathering time is for people who have RSVP’d for the lobby day by Wednesday September 2nd
📍 Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St. NE Salem OR 97301
🔗RSVP for Lobby Day HERE by Sept. 2
❤️WEAR RED!

Join us on September 8th in Salem to tell our elected officials that Oregonians demand a 3-year moratorium on data centers! The rapid build out of data centers without proper regulations is having a huge impact on our communities, energy prices, and natural resources. Enough is enough: we demand a moratorium on data centers now! Can you join us in Salem for a lobby day in support of a statewide 3-year moratorium on data centers?

The day will consist of meetings with legislators, a rally, and attendees can attend Senate and House Energy & Environment committee informational hearings. Please RSVP in advance so we can schedule meetings with your legislators if possible! We will send out a full agenda and more information to RSVPs closer to the day. 

Data centers have a huge impact on our state. We cannot afford to give away our limited water resources to corporations who put their profits ahead of those who call Oregon their home. The electricity demand will exceed our grid capacity and threaten our climate emission targets. Data centers pay no sales tax in Oregon (as they do in other states), but nonetheless are still getting tax exemptions without providing adequate jobs. Some are even building on prime farmland and wetlands. We cannot leave these industries to regulate themselves. 

We need Oregon legislators to take action and enact a 3-year moratorium to ensure that our current data center problem doesn’t get worse. Public pressure is the most powerful way to demonstrate fierce opposition to unregulated data centers and force our legislators to stand up for our climate and support a data center moratorium bill. 

✌️Vancouver's 23rd Annual Peace and Justice Fair & Concert
📅September 12, 2026
⏰9am to 3pm
📍Esther Short Park (8th and Columbia, Vancouver, WA)

Come say hello to Oregon PSR at the Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair!

The Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair builds community among the grassroots peace and justice groups in SW Washington and Northern Oregon. It highlights the common goals of peace and justice at home, our community, and the world. The fair helps each of us find further ways of dedicating our lives to peace and justice.

🎥Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions
📅September 13
⏰7:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
📍Tomorrow Theater (3530 SE Division)
Click here to purchase tickets ($15)

As the city of Portland ponders the future of the toxic tank farms that line the North Reach of the Willamette River while at the same time struggling to decarbonize, the Tomorrow Theater is bringing a new documentary by Barbara Bernstein, Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions, to the big screen on Sunday, September 13 at 7 pm. The theater is at 3530 SE Division Street. 

The Tomorrow Theater welcomes back local filmmaker and producer Barbara Bernstein and her film Chasing Chimeras: The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions, which tells the stories of people fighting the fossil fuel industry’s self-serving climate solutions, including renewable diesel, hydrogen, renewable natural gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsets. Following the film, Barbara will lead a discussion with some of the people featured in the film. 

Rumble on the River Community Forums #33

🛡️Protecting Our Region From Its Most Perilous Threats
📅Wednesday September 30
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     🚪Doors and Info Tables: 5:30 pm
     🎤 Panel: 6:30 pm
📍St. Luke Lutheran Church // 4595 SW California St., Portland, OR
💲Rumbles are always free

Join us for info, updates & action ideas on the CEI Hub, Data Centers, Nuclear realities and the proposed refinery at Port Westward's Columbia River Estuary

Panel:

Audrey Leonard: Staff Attorney with Columbia Riverkeeper
Deren Ash: Campaign Manager with La Pine Data Center Accountability,
serves on Oregon Data Center Defiance Steering Committee
Jacob Roloff: Helvetia Farmer & Manager @ Roloff Farms, serves on Oregon
Data Center Defiance Steering Committee
Kelly Campbell: Policy Director with Columbia Riverkeeper
Nick Caleb: Climate and Energy Attorney with Breach Collective