Occupy Portland announces plans for a new, two-week cycle of reoccupation that starts Saturday, December 3. Jordan LeDoux, point of contact for Occupy Portland’s public relations committee, addressed local media in a 10 am press conference at the Salmon Springs Fountain. The location remains undecided and undisclosed for tactical reasons, but organizers say they’ve planned…
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Announcing “Today in Occupy”
Greetings, friends! I am starting a series of Occupy Portland daily updates. The contents will be a digest of happenings and outcomes from groups and events. There will not be a specific limit on what subjects are covered, but the goal will be to span the diverse interests and backgrounds of our movement. I plan to…
Extreme Distress
By K. Kendall, in conversation with Mary Nichols and Sandy Polishuk According to standard US Flag etiquette, “Always display the flag with the blue union field up — never display the flag upside down, except as a signal of extreme distress.” And yet since 9/11, the US Flag upside down has been used as a…
Video: Enough is Enough
By Occupy John
Occupy Portland Media Coalition has produced a video briefly highlighting the impact of inequity as a result of debt, estimated at $7,800 per person. Given the rising numbers in unemployment and stagnant wages against the backdrop of increasing costs for day to day expenditures, the 99% say to the big banks who have wreaked such havoc on our economy; “Enough is enough.”
To get this video out to a wider audience we have started a fundraising effort to buy online ad space. We are aiming to raise $2000 in 30 days and really appreciate any donations. For more information on this campaign or to donate please go to Loudsauce.com.
What Republicans are Being Taught to Say to the 99% and What We Should Say Back
by: mycelium (Author’s Note: I’ve chosen not to capitalize the terms “republican” or “democrat” because I have no respect left for them.) It’s no secret that the republican party exists to maintain power for the 1%. This week, republican Governors from around the U.S. met in Orlando, Florida, the future site of the 2012 republican…
Pictures of Occupy Portland
By K. Kendall Mark Kronquist does not endorse Occupy Portland, and he has some fairly serious ideological differences with our movement. (See his artist statement, below.) But he identifies himself as “Photographer, Historian, and Oregonian” in that order, and he had the opportunity to shoot 12,000 digital pictures of us in our encampment, doing what…
This Week in Occupy
6-minute video covering Thanksgiving week and Black Friday.
Shut Down the Port!
Portland’s first big planning meeting is this Thursday, come and get plugged in to a working group. We need you! Thursday, Dec. 1st 7 pm St. Francis Church – dining hall 1131 SE Oak St. Blockade the Ports Blockade the Wealth of the 1% What will happen on Dec 12: We will stage mass mobilizations to…
Mayor and Police Chief Lied about Crime
A conversation with Ted Clark and James Schwartz Ted Clark doesn’t believe all he hears. When he read reports that one of the reasons why Sam Adams decided to evict Occupy Portland from its encampment was that the City of Portland and its Police Bureau claimed Occupy had sparked an “increase of crime,” he didn’t…
Rally for Constitutional Rights
Today at noon there was a rally at the Justice Center to celebrate constitutional rights. The trials of the Occupiers arrested at Jamison Square began today at 1 p.m, at the Justice Center.
