Month: November 2011

Police Brutality: Send Evidence Here

Urgent request to the public: to end the police coverup of violence, we need your photos and videos that show police brutality in progress. Upload your photos and videos to any service you like (Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) and send links to your evidence, labeled Police Brutality, to the following addresses: [email protected] and [email protected]

Sunday Was Our Beat-Down

By Judas James Around 7 a.m. Sunday morning I was sleeping in my tent when my whole tent shook, and it was a Portland Police Officer telling me I had five minutes to leave. As I crawled out of my tent, I saw everybody else coming out of theirs. The cops were actually nice about…

Short-Lived Victory

Occupy Portland’s Cavalry Defeats the Cops’ By Daniel Forbes      As the typical grey dawn broke Sunday morning, several hundred Portland Occupiers and their thousands of supporters reveled in victory, having held what had become their home. For some campers it was a home away from home; for others, everything they had, including their torments, could…

Occupy Saved Three Lives

By Vargus Pike Sometimes in life it is all in how you look at it. One of the condemnations of the Portland occupation is that there were reportedly three near fatal drug overdoses in the camp. The mayor has used this  as one of the reasons  to force the shut down of the camps. When…

N13 Liveblog

ALERT: I was trying to sneak some sleep, but shit has hit the fan. Adam Rothstein here, reporting. 5:20 PM – GA is continuing at Pioneer Square. Okay, folks. Now Im tapped out. And I have to travel tomorrow! Ending this live blog here. Hopefully things will be peaceful now until Occupy City Hall, tomorrow.…

N12-13 Live Blog

Welcome to the live blog! Adam Rothstein will be posting info here as it comes in from our many correspondents. Want to help? Email your photos and CONFIRMED info to [email protected], or send a tweet to @PDXoccupier. Well be tweeting updates there as well. Our friends in the Media Coalition will be running the Livestream…

Day of Action

Welcome to a day of action for Occupy Portland! Here’s what’s going on today. First and foremost, The Occupier will have a live blog going all night long, which you can follow here. Our Twitter account, @PDXoccupier, will also be filtering and reporting the most current, confirmed information from many sources, and you can trust…