Long time readers of these blogs already know about the Shiraz-Portland Sister City relationship. Whether that was ever approved or not I'm not sure. Probably back burnered because of all the marching to more federal registers that goes on.
But I'm thinking at the Mayoral-Governor level, there's no need to resolve which federation a state, stan or oblast is within. Oregon and Donetsk are both states, regardless of other Venn Diagrams. Oregon is also a state on the Pacific Rim. At least some of our state is in Cascadia.
I'm running this Portland-Mariupol Sister City proposal by WILPF as concept art at the moment, with Perplexity drafting a declaration. WILPF = Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, well established in Oregon.
What other NGOs and civic-minded associations might want to get on board in supporting this?
On my School of Tomorrow maps, we're free to toggle between different worldviews i.e. see the globe through the eyes of different cults and subcultures, many of whom divide it up in ways we might not recognize based on our own forms of schooling.
