By Ben Schreiner, Dissident Voice After being evicted from the two city parks held for nearly six weeks back in early November, Occupy Portland set out this Saturday with a goal of re-occupying another city park. And in the process, Portland showcased once again why it remains one of the more dynamic Occupy sites in…
Month: December 2011
Today in Occupy: December 4, 2011
Occupy Portland sustained Portland Police Bureau’s attempted eviction from Shemanski Park. Approximately 75 demonstrators remained in the early morning. Thirty demonstrators slept in the park overnight. The Portland Police Bureau released a statement that Occupy Portland demonstrators used children as human shields and that no children suffered injury. Oregonian photographer Ray Whitehouse published evidence of…
Liveblog: D3
Welcome to the liveblog for D3, when Occupy Portland marches and occupies a public park for free speech. I’m Adam Rothstein, and I’ll be chairing the liveblog, with help from our correspondents in the field. You can also follow us on Twitter for pertinent updates: @PDXoccupier. The Livestream is up and running. 3:10 AM –…
Today in Occupy: December 3, 2011
Dogcupy Portland plans to hold its third anti-bank demonstration at 11 am on SE Hawthorne at 37th. This weekly demonstration aims for a fun atmosphere that delivers a cute message. More information: http://occupyportlandcalendar.org/ The ReOccuFest starts at 2 pm, marches at 3 pm, and aims to start a new, two-week cycle of occupations. More information:…
Today in Occupy: December 2, 2011
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…
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…
