Still plowing through leftovers? Here are two tasty morsels from the Portland Police Association, courtesy of the eagle eyes over at Portland Copwatch, that may or may not help settle your stomach. On Tuesday, three days after the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced incredibly rare criminal charges against Dane Reister—the cop who mistakenly loaded […]
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Occupy Christmas: Black Friday Protests
First, let us have a moment of silence for the victims of Black Friday: 20 people were injured in a Los Angeles WalMart after a woman hunting for a discounted X-Box 360 let loose with pepper spray. There have also been three reported Black Friday shootings around the country. … … Thank you. In Portland, […]
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Anonymous Threats! Downtown Retailers! Another Round of Mayor Sam Adams’ Occupy Portland Emails!
Every week or so since October 7, give or take, I’ve been regularly reviewing hundreds of Occupy Portland-related emails sent from, or received by, Mayor Sam Adams’ office. Lately, there’s been such a fire hose of news, that I’ve wound up just dropping relevant scraps into stories or posts as needed. But maybe you’ve noticed: […]
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More Questions About City Hall, the Feds, and Occupy Portland
Another powerful essay has emerged, this time over at the Guardian, raising the idea that this month’s wave of Occupy crackdowns was coordinated nationally and designed to continue to obscure some of the Occupy movement’s real message and aims: stricter financial regulations, pulling corrupting amounts of money from politics, etc. The discussion centers on the […]
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Blogtown Coverage of Occupy Black Friday… TOMORROW!
For those who actually have to work for a living tomorrow, be sure to drop by Blogtown throughout the day for continuing up-to-the-minute coverage of Occupy Black Friday! Sarah and Denis will be all over it (as usual) and providing their always thoughtful and accurate squirts of the latest news. For a good roundup of […]
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Black Friday Protest Extravaganza!
One man is already in line outside Gresham’s Best Buy. This knowledge causes me great sadness. How is there a human who would rather spend a day on a tarp in the rain, fantasizing about discount electronics, instead of passing a day warm inside with family, eating delicious pie? Sigh. On the other side of […]
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Anti-Occupy “Daylight Disinfectant” Revealed?
[Clarifications: The following clarifications have been made since the original publication of this post. The caption in one of the photos below has been changed from “filming himself” to “videotaping and recording his voice.” Also Daniel Sandini disputes the allegation that he is in any organized “anti-Occupy group.” The title has been changed to reflect […]
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Occupy Portland Police Overtime Hits $1.29 Million
The high cost of the all-out operation to evict Occupy Portland from three city parks the weekend before last is finally hitting the Portland Police Bureau’s ledger. New emails obtained late today as part of an ongoing Mercury public records request shows the overtime bill for Occupy has now hit $1.29 million. The overall number […]
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Hooray for the Banks!
Reuters says we’re in the money! U.S. bank earnings reached a more than four-year high in the third quarter, but regulators are warning that the industry faces challenges that include the risk of the European debt crisis washing up on U.S. shores…On Tuesday, the FDIC released its latest quarterly report, which showed that the industry […]
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Umpqua Bank Gives $25,000 to Restore Occupy Portland Parks (And Maybe Asks Anarchists Not to Smash Its Windows)
Portland’s Parks and Recreation Bureau sent out a beaming email this afternoon announcing that Umpqua Bank has donated $25,000 to help plant new grass and do other work at Chapman and Lownsdale Squares, two parks better known for the past few weeks as Occupy Porltand’s Alpha and Beta camps, respectively. It’s a pretty big gesture […]
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Guys… Last Week’s Occupy PDX was INSANE
Look, guys. Maybe you already know this, and I’m once again physically abusing a deceased horse… but last week’s Occupy Portland events were INSANE. I was just looking at all of our posts tagged “Occupy,” and maybe it’s because I was just trying to deal with it moment by moment, and shoving all non-pertinent information […]
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Occupy Art: Pepper Spraying Cop Meme
It’s exciting to view the birth of a meme in the wild. Botticelli + Suzette Smith “Hey, I’m Photoshopping Pepper Spraying Cop onto The Birth of Venus, do I leave in his pepper spray can?” Over the weekend, cool-dude Lieutenant John Pike casually walked past a line of peaceful UC Davis protesters and pepper-sprayed them, […]