Most important news first: An LA Times article about Sam Adams’ handling of Occupy quoted two Blogtown commenters! Congratulations Sarahfina and Dave J, you’ve hit the big time! The Times also describes the Mercury as “leftist,” which I guess I can’t really argue with, even though I think of our paper has one foot in […]
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The Newt Gingrich Jobs Plan
Newt Gingrich, at the Republican forum yesterday afternoon, on Occupy Wall Street: Transcript from the Huffington Post: They take over a public park they didn’t pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn’t pay for, to beg for food from places they don’t want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going […]
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Chief Reese Says Checks Are Coming In, but Confirms Delay on Mayoral Announcement
illustration by Kurt McRobert Maybe you’ve been keeping up with the news. Thanks to some pepper-spray and a rape-case gaffe, it’s been a roller-coaster week for Police Chief Mike Reese—both as police chief and as a serious, but technically undeclared, mayoral candidate. And now Reese this morning has confirmed for the Mercury one nugget making […]
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Occupy Holds Vigil to Mark Week Since Eviction
About 70 people braved last night’s freezing temps to hold a candlelit vigil at City Hall marking one week since Occupy Portland’s tent city was booted from the nearby parks. Organizer Jordan Ledoux asked people to recognize that Occupy Portland had been a “safe space” for some homeless people who are now back out on […]
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Police Chief Mike Reese: “I Apologize”
A little more than an hour ago, a mea culpa finally emerged from Police Chief Mike Reese—his response to widespread condemnation for his decision on Thursday to take a shot at Occupy Portland protesters by invoking a delayed response to rape call that Reese later learned actually happened 11 days prior. It was not my […]
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Dogcupy Photos: Cute Dogs Protest Bank of America
A diverse group of ten canines took to the streets this morning in solidarity with the Occupy movement, protesting outside Bank of America on SE Hawthorne and marching to Wells Fargo and US Bank. The march was slowed by considerable butt-sniffing, but overall, the crowd at Dogcupy Portland seemed to be a serious bunch. Quigley […]
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UPDATED: Occupy Portland Occupies PSU Blocks
UPDATE 12:10PMSarah Mirk here. I just called our news editor, Denis Theriault, who is on the scene at the Occupy Version 2 under way in the South Park Blocks. “Denis! What’s going on? I can’t really tell from Twitter,” I said. “What’s going on?” he replied. “Well, Mike Bluehair is having an underwear dance party […]
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Okay, Thursday’s Pepper-Spraying Could Have Been Way Worse. Like This.
This is how officers at the University of California-Davis decided to roust of 10 occupiers camping out on the famed agricultural school’s quad. Shame on you, indeed. Meanwhile, someone’s already connected what happened Thursday in Portland to this incident, from yesterday. That was iconic, as pictures go. This here is just pure awfulness.
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Video Roundup of Occupy Portland’s Day of Action
For the second time this week, Portland police today have released their own internal footage of a clash with Occupy Portland protesters—sending out one clip that shows another view of the pepper-spraying incident made infamous by the Oregonian and viewed around the world and another clip that highlights some protesters’ non-peaceful response to confusing, simultaneous […]
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That Rape Call Chief Reese Mentioned Last Night? It was on November 6
Portland police have released new details about the delayed, three-hour police response to a recent rape case—a shocking revelation invoked by Police Chief Mike Reese last night on KGW as he calmly tried to make the case that Occupy Portland protests are sapping the police bureau of energy, cash, and flexibility. The wide implication, because […]
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Occupie Chart of Arrests
We have a lot of great articles about Occupy Portland in the paper this week, including a breakdown of the protest by the numbers, a column about how Chief Reese can’t be both a mayoral candidate AND police chief, and ideas on what’s next for Occupy. BUT! My favorite part has to be the Occupie […]
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The Moment When the Police Lost the Occupy Portland Narrative
Well, it turned. The police bureau is starting to crack after six weeks of Occupy Portland. And one picture, right here, crystallizes the precise moment when it happened. During a choreographed effort to pull a few dozen protesters out of the Chase bank branch outside Pioneer Square, part of today’s hundreds-strong N17 day of action, […]