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Month: November 2011
Know Your Rights Rally
A rally supporting first amendment rights will be held at the Justice Center, SW 3rd between Main and Madison, at noon on Tuesday, November 29, 2011. This event coincides with the 1 p.m. court date for those arrested at Jamison Square. Bring signs. See Wiki for more information.
What Next for Occupy?
Text and pictures by K. Kendall From South Bend, Indiana to Ottawa, Canada, from Democracy Now, to our own Portland Spokes Council, everyone is asking, Where do we go from here? Do we go inside a warehouse or a building, as Occupymediagroup (in New York) hopes to do? Or should we refuse to leave the parks, as …
Light for Life Vigil
By Mary Nichols, Gina Ronning, and a committee of people honoring the houseless. The Light for Life vigil took place on Friday night (Black Friday). Mary Nichols and Gina Ronning are two of the thirty-five people who participated in an all-night vigil at Pioneer Square, honoring the houseless. Nichols says they lit about a hundred candles…
Tom McCall: Oregon’s Great Occupier
Decades Ahead of His Time By John O. Andersen Occupy Portland was born in meetings held in late September, 2011 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The actual Occupation began with a rally at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on October 6, followed by a march that eventually ended at Chapman and Lownsdale Parks, where the Occupation stayed till November…
Occupy Black Friday Photo-essay
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Working Draft of Occupy Portland Statement of Indigenous Solidarity
(Note: This statement will be read to the G.A. on Saturday, Nov 26th for approval, please comment below to further workshop it before then.) Occupy Portland recognizes that the land now referred to as the Willamette Valley is already occupied. It was stolen from the people who speak the many dialects of the Molallan, the…
Music for a Movement
Story and pictures by K. Kendall Music has been integral to Occupy since it began, but so far–and maybe this is a function of the diversity of tastes within the movement–we haven’t chosen an “anthem,” and we don’t have songs we sing together. This is probably a function of our time. This is not the…
Let Our Silence Be Heard
A letter from Ireland By Blake Sohacki Portland is a city I have learned to love and call home, but I have been following the movement for the last month from Ireland. Shortly after I heard of Occupy Portland setting up, I noticed a collection of Occupy Encampments over here: Cork, Galway, and Dublin just…
Occupy Black Friday
Ian Carmany’s photograph captures the consumerist energy-suck of the nightmare that this day has become. Having nothing to do with either giving thanks or celebrating any culture’s holy days, the annual frenzy of shopping has become a day to celebrate corporatism. Big lot sellers hype their dawn sales and people pitch tents and camp out–without…
