Here’s a poll that’s currently up on the KATU website: And here are the current results: Sorry, kids. 60% of you won’t be having Christmas this year. I know… let’s do our own poll!
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Reading Some Tea Leaves on Occupy Portland; Also, Which News Outlet Called Mayor to Demand Camps Close?
How sold is Mayor Sam Adams on immediately revoking his embrace of Occupy Portland’s two campsites in Chapman and Lownsdale squares in defiance—or civil disobedience, as occupiers might say—of the city’s parks curfew and camping ban? Occupiers certainly aren’t hedging. They’re already bracing for an eviction notice at tomorrow’s press conference with the mayor and […]
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Chief, Mayor Will Meet Into the Night on Occupy Portland; Press Conference Set for Tomorrow
Photographs by Denis C. Theriault Chief Mike Reese says he’ll wait to talk tomorrow morning. Sending rumors of an imminent raid—or at least an imminent posting of a notice-to-vacate—swirling around Occupy Portland, Mayor Sam Adams and Police Chief Mike Reese will go before reporters at 10 AM tomorrow and lay out what the mayor said […]
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Police Make Arrest for Occupy-Related Molotov Cocktail Incident
Police have made an arrest for last night’s detonation of a Molotov cocktail on a staircase last night. Twenty-nine-year-old David Joseph Hodson has been charged with arson, manufacturing a destructive device, possession of a destructive device, and criminal mischief. He was also arrested on November 6 for several charges related to starting fires near the […]
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Why Does Dan Saltzman Want to Boot Occupy Portland? Holiday Shoppers
It’s been pretty well-known in Portland City Hall that Commissioner Dan Saltzman has quietly been ready—for weeks—to see Occupy Portland give up its campsites in Chapman and Lownsdale squares. Today, he made that desire a bit more explicit—agreeing with Randy Leonard’s comments this afternoon that it’s time to lay down a deadline. And soon. But […]
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Occupy Portland: City Cites Its Own Parks Bureau for Code Violations
More bureaucratic pressure for Occupy Portland! The Bureau of Parks and Recreation Bureau—technically the “property owner” at Chapman and Lownsdale squares, home of the twin Occupy camps—has received an official notice from the city’s code enforcers that lays out six violations (and one alleged violation) that must be corrected within 30 days, lest the parks […]
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Occupy Mill Ends!
Forget about the Colonel Saunders Park occupation in Southeast Portland, the real occupation is happening right under our noses — literally. Earlier this week, 99 percent of the world’s (and Portland’s) smallest park, Mill Ends, was under serious occupation. @sarahmorrigan Micheal Moore, where are you now? Located on the slim median strip between SW Naito […]
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Must-See Video: Teabaggy Rep. Joe Walsh Screams at Voters for Picking on Poor Banks
Required viewing! Required viewing! This video, via Wonkette, is unbelievable: Illinois Republican Representative Joe Walsh, who is best-known for being a teabagger and a scummy deadbeat dad, loses his shit when voters ask him about the market’s culpability in the financial meltdown. Get ready to watch a grown man devolve into a yowling crybaby, and […]
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Randy Leonard on Occupy Portland: “We Need to Come to a Date” and “Peacefully” Close the Camps, Maybe Within “Days”
The end really does seem nigh for Occupy Portland. Randy Leonard—still an ardent backer of the Occupy Wall Street message—is finally joining the list of city commissioners and public officials saying it’s time to get serious about ending Occupy Portland’s occupation of Chapman and Lownsdale squares and to start talking about finding a different space […]
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And Now Let Us Introduce You to “AntiOccupyPortland”
Ever wonder who finds the chum that helps fuel the anti-Occupy feeding frenzies by right-wing-media sharks like Victoria Taft and Lars Larson, etc.? Say hello to one such outfit: “AntiOccupyPortland.” Using hidden cameras, some careful stage managing, and a liberal (ha!) dose of exaggeration, AntiOccupy has helped spread some of the worst rumors surrounding our […]
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Occupy Southeast! A New 24-Hour Park Protest and Other Occupy Portland News
Raise your hand if you remember last month’s big ol’ Jamison Square demonstration—the Occupy Portland Pearl District protest that started with a cheery, festive rally but led to a massive police callout after midnight and 27 arrests? The same organizer who planned that rally (and also one of the arrestees), Cameron Whitten, is planning a […]
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Cops Almost Announced Occupy Portland Molotov Cocktail Worries Last Week
Portland police tonight reported someone set off a Molotov cocktail at the World Trade Center on SW Salmon, causing fire damage to a staircase but no injuries—and that maybe, even though it’s still technically “unconfirmed,” someone at Occupy Portland might be involved. Police, in a news release, say they received “unconfirmed information” way back on […]