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Thanks for the news Denis. I'm expecting you to hang out until after 12 to let us all know how this goes down.
2
What are the chances you're going to shoot some video at !2:01AM?

I'm really interested in seeing how PPD deals with this...
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Thanks for coming to Jamison Square.

I am glad we are asserting our right to have a fair, democratic, equitable, free, whole society and future.

As a single parent who raised two children without child support, and is now a grandmother, I am well aware of the need for increased fairness, equity, inclusion, democracy, freedom, support for community health, wholeness, and unity, and a future free from violence or oppression at home or overseas.

I live in the Pearl District.
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Please take care of yourselves in this one. I am so grateful you are there keeping us posted. Movies that can be uploaded certainly do let the world know what is up, if you can get them.
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I'm in NYC right now, and actually spent some time at #ows in Zucotti Park yesterday, as well as the tail end of a dash Wednesday night through the Village to Union Square, so I've been doing some thinking about Portland Occupy's tactics.

I keep going back and forth on the efficacy of actually "occupying" vs returning each day/well-planned events in different locations, etc. (Even as I typed that sentence I moved a bit further toward the latter). I like the idea of establishing a rallying point/core/"turf," but (especially in winter) occupying keeps the location stuck spatially. More importantly, it DOES keep the hardcore firmly in control of everything. While I'm pleased with what the occupiers have started and sustained, any kind of success depends on a substantial amount of the 99% deciding to publicly support and turn out for the movement. I don't think that happens as easily when winter thins out the ranks of even the hardcore occupiers.

I think it's getting clearer that #ows has struck a nerve, and I think it's the first iteration of something that will get bigger. My hope is that they start moving toward more focused, creative daily protests against a variety of targets.

Doing something different every day a) makes more media events (and more news about the event itself rather than the protesters), b) widens the potential scope of people who may be specifically aggrieved, and c) broadens the scope of the movement spatially, which will draw in more people who might not have otherwise.
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Personally, I started out as sorta sympathetic towards the plight- this greed - but always skeptical about its' effectiveness.
I'm just tired of it now.
There is no theme - except greed - to rally behind. It's easy to be against something, but to fix it is another story.
And now with the costs coming to light that that this protest will cost all of us, I think it's time to pull the plug.
They really began to lose me when they wouldn't leave the street and had to have the cops to do it for all of us.
Further idiotic posts helped alienate me along the way...
now this ??
Fuck 'em. Bust out the tear gas.
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As a further irony, all these cops these 'occupy' are against are making a killing in overtime.
Easy money for them.
I'd be curious what the average OT rate is for these cops to babysit these guys.
10
Step up and occupy the mayor's office. Sam is out of town so you have a chance to remove the child porn for his desk and computer.
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Getting arrested is not a good tactic. It's predictable and, at this point, can be avoided. That's why most of us were not occupying Jameson Sq. Assemblies are considering doing something different every day.
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GOOD JOB, OP! YOU'VE TAKEN ANOTHER ACTION THAT MOVES YOU FURTHER FROM YOUR GOALS. I MEAN, WHO NEEDS GOOD WILL AND SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY?!? LETS JUST CREATE CONFRONTATIONS FOR NO GOOD REASON.

GO OCCUPY LAKE OSWEGO. THE PEARL DISTRICT IS NOT A HOTBED OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY. IT'S A HOTBED OF ARTIST SPACES, GALLERIES, AND EMPTY CONDOS.
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This group that showed up last night was entitled and arrogant. Even starting a chant like, "whose park? Our park!" raised many red flags in my mind. 1. How many of us have ever gone into a public space and needed to shout that we owned it at 3 a.m. In the morning? The most effective people or movements that illicit true societal change due so through elegant self control. If MLK watched last night, he would have shaken his southern head and maybe have said, "y'all have gone to hell in a hand basket!"
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am I the only person that read the headline of this article to the tune of "girl worth fighting for" from mulan?
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After donating money, medical supplies, food and clothing to OP I heard that they decided to stage a protest in my neighborhood, the Pearl. The OP website stated the Pearl represented the "inequity of wealth in our city." What the heck? Pearl residents are the 99% and many of them have seen their pension funds dwindle, their businesses fail, their jobs outsourced, their home values plummet and the safety nets they paid into threatened.
OP stated goal of a movement that is "sustainable for the long-term" is undermined by protests that target their own supporters.

Let's keep a laser focus on the real enemy and target them intensely....and the real enemy is not in the Pearl. Bad move OP.
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LOL @ libtards!

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