Demonstrators of Occupy Portland are marching through the streets en route to a Wells Fargo. We are being peaceful and organized. Meanwhile the Portland Police are eating VooDoo Donuts… our tax dollars taste good I bet. Our freedom of speech sounds good too. Please allow us to exercise it!
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#N17 PDX LiveBlogging by the Occupy Portland News Team
11:12 AM Our first victory!
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Police Arrest Peaceful Protesters
Police Block Peaceful March for N17
Occupy Evictions and our Government’s Misguided Priorities
Photo by tysonwilliams.com By Sharon Pio This morning I woke and heard the news on the radio. The US military is worried that Iran will send militants into Iraq as soon as US forces leave to destabilize the country and undo all the work of the last decade. I think of the lives lost, the…
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: mediacoalition@occupyportland.org and press@occupyportland.org…
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…
