AfroVillage PDX is joining a Livability Fair at affordable housing provider, Sabin CDC, that will spotlight sustainability, focusing on its practical applications in everyday life. Our goal is to challenge and dismantle the common misconception that living sustainably is only accessible to a select few.

We believe that everyone in our community can adopt sustainable practices, and we’re committed to making these practices both understandable and achievable. To achieve this, various organizations will on present topics that include maintaining healthy green spaces, effective recycling techniques, energy conservation strategies, and more.

Many groups will be giving away free resources, and AfroVillage PDX will be giving health and wellness plants that can live inside and outdoors.

Location: 1420 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97211 United State

Join Us for the Launch of AfroVillage Community Wi-Fi!

At the Street Roots Hub: 281 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR 97209

✨ Special Sneak Peek:
📍 Location 2: Cafe United

Celebrate the power of connectivity and community as we unveil AfroVillage Community Wi-Fi’s first node and offer an exclusive preview of the second node!

Come enjoy:
• Delicious local bites
• Community networking
Let’s empower our community with technology and unity.

#communityfirst #communitywifi #afrovillagepdx #portlandnonprofit

Afro Village will kicking it at Sabin CDC’s summer block party where we will be giving away free garden herbs, some fruit bearing plants and house plants.

In Honor of Baba Dr.Mutulu Shakur , we’re hosting a NADA Protocol Training Workshop led by Juan Cortez at AfroVillage PDX Project Office Hub ✊🏽. The training is free with light snacks. Contact Kirk to register and for more info: kirk@afrovillagepdx.org ans 307-287-0005.

The NADA Protocol is practiced with the placement of 5 small acupuncture needles into specific points on the ear to help with stress reduction, detoxification, and improve healing. It can be easily practiced in settings designed to aid behaviorial health, disaster relief, and managing substance use by reducing withdrawal symptoms when detoxing. This non verbal approach can be utilized anywhere that folks can come together in a room

Juan Cortez, Registered NADA Trainer

Holistic Services Manager, NYHRE/WHCP. Bronx, New York

Juan Cortez (He/Him) is a registered NADA trainer, acupuncture detoxification specialist, certified Tai Chi instructor, reiki master, personal fitness trainer and associate in occupational studies. First came to NYHRE as a young injection Drug user in the 1990s where I was introduced to acupuncture and harm reduction for the first time on the streets of Harlem.

In 2006 I started to volunteer At NYHRE and become a peer doing outreach as I was detoxing and going through withdrawals from Methadone, crack and pills . Combining Harm reduction at NYHRE and receiving, acupuncture treatments and attending support group at Lincon Detox, I was able to achieve my goal of being drug free. Soon after I took the acupuncture training at Lincoln detox and was hired at NYHRE as a case manager then holistic health specialist.

since then, I have received a degree in massage therapy From the Swedish Institute specializing in Shiatsu . Certifications as a Reiki Master, Tai Chi , Qigong instructor, Personal Fitness trainer , Black Belt in ITF Tae Kown Do, and as a Registered trainer with the national acupuncture detoxification Association

My Passion is bringing Holistic services to the streets to people that may not otherwise be able to get the services like myself when I was first introduced to harm Reduction on the street. Using my own personal and Professional experience I work with formerly incarcerated ,Military veterans and young injection Drug users using acupuncture /Acupressure as an introduction to wellness and harm Reduction then connecting people to other supportive services. The most important tool I have is my love for the people I serve and my community.

To me I am not a healer but just part of the healing process , we heal together as a community . Because of the legacy of Mutulu Shakur , the Black Panthers, young Lords and Act Up, Today I fight hate , stigma ,racism and oppression . My Activism is through Wellness

The Portland EcoFilm Festival and the Hollywood Theater, sponsored by Afro Village PDX,  are screening a documentary by Mia Donovan titled DOPE IS DEATH on May 12th at 2 pm. Tickets now on sale! 

In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. DOPE IS DEATH explores how this form of radical harm reduction was a revolutionary act toward the government programs that transfixed the lives of black and brown communities throughout the South Bronx. There is much to learn  from these accomplishments: lessons which promise to inspire generations of activists, ecologists, and all of those who are determined to serve their communities.

A community conversation with special guests from the film follows the screening including Mia Donovan and Juan Cortez, a holistic health specialist in New York. More events with the guests may be planned on or around May 12th and will be listed on Afro Village PDX’s website.

“Ecology” means knowledge of home; The Portland EcoFIlm Festival's Social Ecology Films series explores social aspects of this knowledge.

For more information, visit: https://www.portlandecofilmfest.org/dope-is-death

Currently in its eleventh year, The Portland EcoFilm Festival is the premier ecological film festival in the US Pacific Northwest. Every year they showcase some of the world’s best new films about nature and ecology, environmental justice, frontline communities, conservation, and outdoor pursuits. Their mission is to utilize the art of cinema to create a more inspired, active, empowered, diverse, and connected community of environmental advocates and ecologically minded people. The Festival is a signature program ofThe Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon’s modern-historic nonprofit movie house.