Two weeks ago, the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America held a press conference alongside the four socialist members of the Portland City Council to announce a pledge aimed at curbing any complicity within city limits with Israel’s military campaign against Gaza.

The local DSA chapter wrote the pledge and Councilor Mitch Green agreed to help champion it. All six members of the council’s progressive caucus (commonly called Peacock) signed it.

At the Oct. 17 virtual press conference, Green, an Army veteran and economist, said he had “seen firsthand the harm caused by weapons of war.”

“It is my obligation as a Portlander to think about how our city is involved in these networks of violence,” Green said, growing emotional. “We cannot stand by while our public resources a

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