Welcome to Braided River Campaign. We are educators, neighbors, artists, students, lawyers, and cyclists working to make the lower Willamette River waterfront a safe and healthy place.

We advocate for equitable laws and policies that prevent harm to one group of people, place, and the environment over another. We actively oppose the concept of sacrificial zoning.

We believe in community participation in city government decision making!

Here are some of our focus areas:

  • CEI Hub policy

  • Economic Opportunities Analysis

  • Columbia Corridor and Industrial Lands policy

  • North Reach River Plan

  • Neighborhood Greenways

  • Renewable Fuels Policy

  • Portland Harbor Superfund Cleanup

  • Portland’s Climate Emergency Work Plan

Visit our gallery at Lloyd Center Mall
Thursdays from 2 pm - 6pm

The Braided River Gallery captures the stories of the people who lived, worked and played along the river. These stories have been buried beneath highways, fossil fuel tanks, and displacement.

We share these stories to honor the people who lived and worked on the land and in the river. We share these stories as a first step in healing and creating a new harbor that is equitable, safe and integrated into society.

For time immemorial the lower Willamette was a magnificent system of plants, rivers, streams, lakes and forest; all braided one into another. We recognize the many tribes who lived, traveled, hunted fished and gathered in the river and on the shores.

We recognize that this is the land of the many bands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Nez Peirce, Yakima. We honor the unique abundance of this river system and the people who sustained it. We acknowledge the harm done to the river system and her people.