“Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!” Rain couldn’t keep 200 people from marching through the streets of downtown Portland this morning for National Bank Transfer Day, stopping at three big banks to slap “Citizens Arrest” flyers to their windows. About 30 police on bikes and horses flanked the protest, enforcing traffic laws (down […]
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Blogtown Heads Up: Occupy Portland Coverage This Weekend!
As has been the case since the birth of Occupy Portland, we’ll be covering the crap out of it this weekend. Be sure to check in tomorrow through Sunday for the latest on Bank Transfer Day, Hands Around the Courthouse Day, as well as hot pix of the Portland Police in their fetching (and required!) […]
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Read Chief Reese’s Full Occupy Portland Memo
Denis posted this morning about Chief Mike Reese’s directive for Portland police to have riot gear ready at all times. Well, the police bureau just sent out the full memo that the riot gear detail was gleaned from. There’s no shockers in it, but it is interesting to see how the police are aware that […]
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on Occupy Wall Street (Which is There for Him to Poop on)
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog returns to Conan, and this time he’s going after the Occupy Wall Street protesters AND the Wall Street bankers in the funniest ten minutes you’re going to see all day (for you to poop on). Also on Conan? Coco officiates TV’s first late night gay wedding. Sniff. Love is cool.
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Occupy Portland vs. “The Real Occupy Portland”?
Remember last week’s strange little episode about some rogue Occupy Portland finance committee members who allegedly had their own ideas about how the camp should handle its cash, and then promptly tried to take charge of the till themselves—until, that is, hackers from Anonymous stepped in? Yeah, well, it flared up again last night. A […]
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Chase CEO Thinks You Agree with Him. DO YOU??
As you may have noted, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon popped into town yesterday to give a little pep talk and pointers to the Portland Business Alliance (Hmmm… how can the rich get richer?) and the peeps at Occupy Portland screamed and yelled at them for awhile, which made everybody really nervous. […]
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Chief’s New Occupy Portland Strategy: Riot Gear Ready at All Times
After a day in which the Portland Police Bureau, Mayor Sam Adams, and the Portland Police Association all had harsh words for Occupy Portland after Wednesday night’s clusterfuck of a march spilled into eastside rush-hour traffic (and saw a bike cop pushed into a bus), Police Chief Mike Reese has decided to make a serious […]
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Coming Up at Occupy Portland!
Hey, all you 99 percenters. And I guess you 1 percenters, too, wherever you are. What are you doing this weekend? Nothing much? HEY, GUESS WHAT? MAYBE THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO, OH, I DON’T KNOW, OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH A CREDIT UNION. Here’s our latest installment on what Occupy Portland (and friends) […]
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Sam Adams Livestreams Interview at Occupy Portland
Portland’s mayor is sitting down for a fireside chat with Occupy Portland at 4:30 today—watch the livestream here. I’ll be blogging about the interview as it happens, so feel free to put your thoughts, reactions, hate mail in the comments. Right now, the livestream page includes a Gmail chat an some MSPaint… …but hopefully this […]
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Driver in Mercedes Mows Down Occupy Oakland Protesters
Though this video does show a man running down two Occupy Oakland protesters for daring to bang on the hood of his Mercedes, and though it also shows the aftermath of the vehicular assault, the worst part of this whole event isn’t on the video: The authorities took the driver’s information and then let him […]
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Occupy Portland’s Anti-Chase Bank March
UPDATE 2:40PM—Mayor Adams released a statement on last night’s protest: Last night, hundreds of people marched through our central city streets, during a march in support of Occupy Oakland. The route was not publicized in advance, despite repeated requests for information from the Portland Police Bureau. As a result, our Portland Police Officers had to […]
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Tense Occupy Portland March: Pepper-Spray Threats and a Cop Pushed In Front of Bus
Todd Mecklem Last night’s Occupy Portland march through downtown (and also the East Side; sorry commuters!) reportedly came pretty close to flashing over into a genuine riot, after hundreds of marchers briefly shut down the Hawthorne Bridge and then got on car-filled SE Grand and MLK in such overwhelming fashion that officers actually threatened to […]