With court dates for all but a handful of Occupy Portland protesters finally set yesterday morning, much of the drama in the movement’s months-long court fight—at least in the pre-trial phase of proceedings—has finally been put to bed. But still up in the air? Whether the police will reveal if they were using informants or […]
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Conservative Group Attacks Feds for Not Cracking Down on Occupy Portland
FOX News and friends are in a huff today after conservative group Judicial Watch sent out a press release railing against the White House for “blessing” the Occupy Portland protest last fall. The issue here is the actions of federal authorities at the General Services Administration (GSA) when November’s Occupy protest spread into Terry Schrunk […]
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County Posts Wrong Mugshot for Arrested Protester
Whoops! Due to a “computer glitch,” the county jail posted the wrong photo for the squatter arrested last night as an anti-foreclosure group attempted to “liberate” a duplex for sale in NE Portland. The mugshots for protester Derek Zika was replaced with the mugshot for a man named Josh Lipka, who was booked a few […]
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Police Squelch Plans to “Liberate” NE Portland Property
Anti-foreclosure activists report that Portland police made at least one arrest late tonight after a group attempted to “liberate” an empty NE Portland duplex for use as a community space. Supporters of the Portland Liberation Organizing Council (PLOC) met today for a party and direct action at the Woodlawn home of Alicia Jackson. The group […]
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Scenes from Cameron Whitten’s Epic Rally for Housing Justice
Photographs by Denis C. Theriault There was a moment Friday night when I was certain Cameron Whitten—then on Day 50 of his housing-justice hunger strike, and speaking to the 300 or so people who showed up for a rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza—was going to declare a symbolic victory and call it quits. He managed […]
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Housing Activists Fear Imminent Police Raid
It’s been a couple of days since Seattle SWAT officers busted into an apartment in the wee hours in search of “paperwork—anarchists,” and less than a day since riot cops in Los Angeles surged against a group of sidewalk-chalking protesters, and worry is pretty high in Portland right now (at least according to a cursory […]
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Occupy Portland Trial Dates Set
Paul Cone Defense Lawyer Robert Callahan and Judge Albrecht It finally happened. On Friday, July 6, after members of Occupy Portland once again packed the courtroom of Multnomah County Judge Cheryl Albrecht, the seemingly unthinkable occurred: Albrecht finally set trial dates for the first set of mass Occupy arrests. Unless the dates change, they are: […]
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Occupy the Courts! Cops Aren’t Handing Over Records
Paul Cone Brian Lowney for the DA. Yesterday afternoon, members of Occupy Portland once again packed the Multnomah County Courthouse for a visit with Judge Cheryl Albrecht, and once again no trial dates were set. The reason this time: the cops. And that’s why, after months of back-and-forth between the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office […]
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On Second Thought, City Says Occupy Portland Can (Mostly) Stay at Director Park
Late Friday, word got out that the city had sent a letter to Occupy Portland, asking it to get a permit or move its Sunday general assembly meetings out of downtown’s Director Park—which, apparently, gets pretty hopping with programmed activities during the summer months. The letter maybe was more indelicate than it needed to be, […]
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City to Occupy Portland: No More “Unpermitted” Meetings in Director Park
Not long after Occupy Portland was cleared from its original encampments, and fences were put up around Chapman and Lownsdale Squares and Terry Schrunk Plaza, the movement started having its Sunday general assembly meetings over in the somewhat covered and uncrowded expanse of Director Park. That never really sat well with some folks in the […]
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Jefferson Smith Meets With Occupy Portland: “I’m a Politician Who’s Partially Full of Shit”
Denis C. Theriault Joe Walsh, left, of the Oregon Progressive Party, tells Jefferson Smith why government would better if we stopped consulting so many people with Ph.Ds. Now that his post-primary pause (if you could call it that) appears officially over, mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith spent his lunch hour today holding forth in a no-holds-barred […]
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Bang a Pot! Quebec Solidarité Protest Downtown Tonight
Casseroles – Montréal, 24 Mai 2012 from Jeremie Battaglia on Vimeo Students in Quebec have been massing in the tens of thousands since February, protesting, at first, sizable hikes in university tuition, and, later, their government’s heavy-handed police response to the protests. And since then, the movement has only spread. Nightly protests called casseroles—where people […]