The powers that be in Portland are getting increasingly insistent in their demands that Portland shut down both of its thriving tent cities: Occupy Portland in Chapman and Lownsdale squares, and a homeless rest area in a private lot at NW Fourth and Burnside, according to emails and letters sent to city hall in recent […]
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A “Rainbow” and a Marijuana Bust: Busy Day for Cops at Occupy Portland
Just in time for the 11 o’clock news last night, Portland police sent out a pair of Occupy Portland-related news releases. One was funny (except, obviously, for the mother who wondered where the hell her kid got off to)—about a nine-year-old who walked off after making art with a woman named “Rainbow.” The other was […]
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Occupying is Fine, Unless You’re Actually Homeless
At dusk, 200 or so protesters from the Occupy Portland camp made their way down SW 4th Avenue to Burnside and Ibrahim Mubarak was there to greet them. Mubarak, of homeless group Right 2 Survive has helped establish a tent city dubbed Right to Dream 2 on the private corner lot there. The city has […]
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Occupy Portland Will March to Support Homeless Camp
Suji Allen Occupy Portland will march today in support of Portland’s other occupation—the homeless camp that has coincidentally occupied the corner of NW 4th and Burnside. While the mayor has okayed the presence of the protesters in Chapman and Lowsndale Parks for an indefinite period of time, allowing a tent city that now includes a […]
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Portland is the Top City Googling “Occupy”
I got an email from Google today. Just to me! I feel like a celebrity. Google analyst Jake Parrillo wanted to let me know that Portland is the city with the most people looking for Occupy Wall Street news of any city in the country. Even more than New York! Here’s their list of cities […]
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In Which Godwin’s Law Finally Comes to the Occupy Protests
Conservative/libertarian site Pajamas Media finally makes the connection we’ve all been waiting for: Don’t those hashtags look an awful lot like swastikas? Don’t these people see an echo of the swastika in their new power symbol? Don’t they realize that the early Nazi Party was (among other things, obviously) also overtly anti-capitalist?…Don’t they know that […]
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Lemony Snicket on Occupy Wall Street
Funny, true stuff: 5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable […]
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Fish Says “We’re At a Tipping Point”; Mayor Still Taking It “Day-By-Day”
Given Commissioner Nick Fish’s letter to Occupy Portland this afternoon—in which he frets over damages to Chapman and Lownsdale squares and demands help from occupiers—I had one major question when he and I finally spoke this afternoon: So, are you going to ask Mayor Sam Adams to make the occupiers move? “I don’t think this […]
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Nick Fish: Occupy Portland is Wrecking Chapman and Lownsdale Squares
Nick Fish, Portland’s parks commissioner, has broken what’s mostly been a code of silent unity at City Hall over the Occupy Portland protests, sending out a fairly harsh letter this afternoon that lays out the potential bill for damages to the two occupied city parks downtown—Chapman and Lownsdale squares. Fish’s letter (pdf) asks for help […]
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Obama Campaign to Embrace Part of the Occupy Message
Paul mentioned earlier that President Obama gave a subtle shout-out to the Occupy movement over the weekend. The people who are running Obama’s re-election effort, however, are being a lot less subtle: “We intend to make it one of the central elements of the campaign next year,” Obama senior adviser David Plouffe said in an […]
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Donald Trump: Mouthpiece of the 1 Percent
Politico says that Donald Trump thinks the Occupy Wall Street protests were fun, but that the government is letting them go on for too long: “I do think that government maybe is letting this go a little bit too far,” Trump said on Fox News Monday morning. “People are having a great time. They’re all […]
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Rally to Mark 10 Years in Afghanistan Finds a Friend in Occupy Portland
As part of the festivities (probably not the right word) planned for tomorrow’s Global Day of Action, Occupy Portland is planning to make cause with Peace and Justice Works and march in solidarity with PJW’s call to get American asses out of Afghanistan. Read all about it.