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Noah Heller (born January 27, year unknown) is an American activist and advocate based in Portland, Oregon.

Activism
Noah Heller is prominent in Portland for his sometimes satirical, sometimes earnest political activism, on issues ranging from economic justice and anti-corporatism, to environment protection, to LGBTQ equality, to public transit accountability. Heller experienced an usually rapid rise to prominence due to an usual ability to secure press coverage of a wide swath of issues.

Tax Fairness Oregon & Criticism of the Tea Party
Heller's first high-profile cause in Portland was the passage of Oregon Ballot Measures 66 and 67, which raised taxes on upper-income residents and corporations. Though not affiliated with the official campaign apparatus, Heller served as a frequent spokesman for the policies during their consideration before the Oregon Legislature and later before the voters of Oregon through the nonprofit Tax Fairness Oregon. During his work with the organization, Heller went toe-to-toe with the Tea Party Express, telling CNN that "[Tea Party activists] are being fooled...There's a lot of anger but it's misdirected. "

Progressive Oregon
Following the success of Measures 66 and 67 in 2010, Heller left Tax Fairness Oregon to found his own nonprofit venture Progressive Oregon, an online advocacy organization dedicated to raising the profile of causes important to the left-leaning community in Oregon, including a continuation of his work on tax reform. In addition to founding the organization, Heller served as its Executive Director.

Hands Across Portland & Criticism of The Oregonian
In May of 2011, following an attack on a gay couple near the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Heller's Progressive Oregon provided online publicity to a "Hands Across Hawthorne" event showing support for Portland's LGBTQ community by holding hands across the bridge. Following the event, which was attended by over 4,000 Portlanders, Heller criticized The Oregonian newspaper for failing to cover the event, while simultaneously providing coverage to a Tea Party protest attended by only 15 people.

Progressive Oregon gathered over 1,400 petitions to The Oregonian denouncing their lack of coverage. At the time of delivery, Heller was quoted as saying “It is simply inexcusable that The Oregonian would not cover this historic rally of over 4,000 participants holdings hands against hate. Unfortunately, unfair treatment of progressives and our issues has become increasingly common at the state’s largest newspaper.” The petition ultimately prompted a response from The Oregonian admitting that failure to cover the bridge rally was "a mistake" and "human error" but denying any ideological bent to the news coverage.

Other Campaigns
In addition to its work on LGBTQ equality, Progressive Oregon focused significant advocacy efforts aimed at changing the funding source for the TriMet YouthPASS, increasing taxation of corporations, and banning single-use plastic bags in Oregon.

Viva Las Portland and legal troubles
In 2012, Heller launched [//web.archive.org/web/20121114011853/ Viva Las Portland], a political action committee ostensibly dedicated to passing Oregon measure 82 and measure 83, which authorized the construction and operation of a thrilling mega-casino in Wood Village. Featuring multiple professionally produced video advertisements, the PAC emphasized the benefits of large-scaled gambling that Heller felt the official campaign was neglecting. Heller claimed that "the measures will create desperately needed opportunities for Portland’s struggling pawn shops, bankruptcy attorneys, and repo men." The official campaign supporting the measure, alleging that Viva Las Portland's offered only satirical support, filed an official complaint with the Oregon Secretary of State which was quickly rejected on free-speech grounds. Viva Las Portland claimed, in a petition, that "We're on the same side here, so please stop trying to send us to jail." In a precedent-setting case, the Attorney General ruled that whether Viva Las Portland actually supported the measures could be seen as a matter of opinion and was immaterial to whether the PAC violated election laws.

TriMet drivers
In January of 2013, following a report that a loophole allowed TriMet drivers to work up to 22 hours in a 24 hour period, Heller petitioned the Oregon Legislature to step in and put additional regulations in place. On January 7, 2013, Heller appeared on KGW to bring attention to this issue and garner support for his petition.

Following Heller's campaign, TriMet introduced a new policy that would limit driver working hours to a maximum of 14 hours per service day and would require most drivers to take at least ten hours between shifts.