The Mayor is announcing that he will evict the occupation using force this Saturday. Let the Mayor know that he doesn't get to decide what happens here - the 99% do!

Sam Adams has announced that he will be sending in the police to forcefully evict Occupy Portland. The violence being threatened against the occupation is the same violence used to evict people from their homes, the same violence used to drive out the poor and working class through the process of gentrification, the same violence that is used daily by the city and police to protect the interests of the 1% at the expense of the 99%. Despite his feigned concern for the safety of the occupiers, he is in reality responding to pressure brought by Standard Insurance, the Portland Business Alliance, and other members of the 1% who oppose the occupation in principle. The Mayor has repeatedly worked to undermine the occupation and distract it from growing into a powerful social movement - this is just another in a long line of manufactured crisis created by the mayor to disrupt the occupation and discredit it. The fear mongering that has been occurring over the past week has been intentional, to alienate the occupation from it's supporters.

This Saturday, we need everyone who supports the right of the occupiers to exist, who opposes police violence, everyone who thinks that this moment in time is too important to give up on - we need all of you at the occupation on Saturday night. They hope to control us through fear - through fear of violence, fear of arrest. We must say that we will not be afraid anymore. That we will not be bullied into submission. For everyone who supports freedom and self-determination, this is your moment to act in defense of those values. All out to the occupation this Saturday! These moments don't happen often, this may be our last opportunity to come together as a people and challenge the powers that be - we can't let it go without a fight.

Long live the Portland Commune!

It would seem that many do not understand one of the underlying tensions of Occupy Portland. While it may not have any "financial industry" to speak of, it has many displays of what happens when those industries go unchecked for decades. What we see at the encampment is a lot of idealistic energy being sucked into the black hole of our system's ailments -- poverty, homelessness, madness. But the occupiers understand that our community, not the federal government, is responsible for addressing our community's needs. Ideally, our very powerful fed could help with this, but ultimately every time we walk by a beggar or ignore the mutterings of a schizophrenic on the street it is a failure of our community, which we all claim to be a part of. Just my $0.02, for what it's worth.

"The police/gustapos" are paid by we the people of Portland with our taxes you knuckleheads. Reading this post lowered by IQ.

I support the right to OCCUPY a location regardless of the laws others put in place to limit and prohibit yours and my RIGHTS to gather in a peaceful assembly of protest against the government. We the people - Right regardless of our differences and income, regardless of our disabilities either physical, mental or both, regardless of our color, religion...Have the right to come together and dispute areas of misrepresentation by those elected into offices.
We the people - Why would you limit another person's opportunity to a have a voice. Although I agree with the person who made the post about how the city would not have supported a "conservative" movement such as anti-choice and I am not in agreement with there position, I do agree with equal voice for all and the need to agree to disagree. We do not do that. We agree to brow beat the other side until we win. I think that is why the 99% have to come together in solidarity to get bigger than those we entrusted to take care of us. Government is not the babysitter of its citizens. We are to be accountable for our actions to one another and our ourselves. But we the PEOPLE have become co-dependent on the BIG BROTHER for all of our basic needs. We have feed the corporate financiars through being blindly led to think what they've got, "I need to have it" rather than learn to live with basic needs.
I have a story about that too.
When I was a kid in the dark ages, we had a hot water bottle wrapped in flannel for all that ached you. Now we have some type of chemical stuff that was brutally tested on animals, in 1000 years or more plastic without knowing what the solution will do to us all over the shelves of the stores. But when I look for the most basic item, a hot water bottle, the pharmicist told me they do not carry them any more. WHY? Because we have bought into the concept these little jelly packets of heat and cooling are better than what our great grandparents used for years and did not have to throw away. We bought into the throw away society companies created to continue growing their profit margins. Why, because of greed.
What will you do when the companies come after your home, your job, your children, your food supply, your information source? Will you wonder why was I not standing with OCCUPY Everywhere when I had the chance for a voice to end the paradigm of greed and control. Something to think about.