Tag: actions

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…

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Plans for N12-13

As you might already be aware, the city has announced that 12:01 AM on November 13th is the deadline for Occupy Portland to leave its parks, before police action can be expected. The occupiers have been busy since that announcement. Here’s some of the plans and events for tomorrow, leading up to the inevitable confrontation…

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Bank Transfer Day

  By Jacob Clary Last Saturday, November 5th, about 300 people marched a circuitous route from Terry Schrunk Plaza to the Northwest Resource Federal Credit Union to open and to support those opening new accounts in celebration of Bank Transfer Day, and in recognition of the absence of interest the larger corporate banks have shown…

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Bank Transfer Day: Live

Welcome to our first experiment liveblogging! Im Adam Rothstein, Thr PoC, and Ill be the main voice today, as I follow the other voices voting with their wallet as they pull their money out of big banks and deposit it in local credit unions. Bare with us as we test our technology; and please excuse…

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Why to Move Your Money, and Where

Where you bank matters in Portland. You–that’s right, you personally–can create sustainable economic and community well being. This sort of empowerment has so impressed your friends and neighbors here at Occupy Portland that we are going to do something about it. Just last Saturday, October 29, hundreds marched under the Occupy Portland banner to the…

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