Your Wednesday, April 17 Daily Primer: Refugee Nonprofit in Union Battle — Your Neighbors, Underwater

WHAT TO KNOW:

A nonprofit aiding refugees epitomizes Portland values, especially in the Trump era. But what happens when its workers want a union?
The Portland neighborhoods surrounding Interstate 205 are the most at risk of floods and intense heat. Those are also the neighborhoods where people are being priced out.
Russell Courtier, a member of a white supremacist prison gang who killed a black teenager by running him over with his Jeep in August 2016, was sentenced to life in prison with a 28-year minimum before he is eligible for release.
Portland Public Schools has decided to close school on May 8 after Portland Association of Teachers, the local teachers union, said that they planned to join a statewide walkout, in a protest over school funding.
A New Yorker article this week features an Oregon guardsman who left the military after befriending a wrongfully imprisoned Guantánamo Bay detainee.
In her new memoir, Adonia Lugo discusses why she no longer works in bike advocacy and why infrastructure alone won’t solve biking’s equity problem.

MUST-SEE:

Until the Flood takes an overpowering journey to Ferguson, Mo., following the Michael Brown shooting. The one-woman show unleashes the anguish of an entire region.

WHAT TO DO ON 4/20:

The highest of high holy days is here again. And with a variety of ceremonies and services taking place throughout Stumptown, you’ll have no trouble finding somewhere to commune with your fellow tokers.