Hippies take care of nature so they will probably leave the park in better condition than before they squatted it so hard. Right hippies?

The parks get big bucks for restoration after the festivals that is why the Portland Pirate Festival moved to St. Helens.

Why do activists hate parks so much?

I want to start a movement for the 98% of us who aren't the 1% insanely wealthy or the 1% batshit mental twinklers.

get off my lawn!

Time to move it to Pioneer Square or the inside of City Hall.

THE #OP SHOULD MOVE TO DIRECTOR'S PARK. AINT NO GRASS THERE FOR THEM TO FUCK OVER.

What idiots down there decided to tear up an area and plant a 'garden' in there anyway?

@Number Six: Yes, it seems clear that Nick Fish would rather they occupy Pioneer Courthouse Square. Takes a little more effort to drive in the tent stakes there, of course...

Concern troll is concerned

I just realized that Nick Fish is possibly a small, rather smooth Ent.

Nick Fish cares so much about greenspace, he forgot who the greenspace is there for in the first place! They're called citizens, Nick. You asked them to vote for you, and they voted for you. Send the bill to Geithner and find something worthwhile to whine about..

By Occupy being there, the citizens at large are now unable to enjoy that space. The majority of citizens would rather downtown parks not morph into makeshift camps, regardless of the reasons.

Some idiots down there planted bamboo too.
WTF??
I'm with Chuck on this. Walking through there the other day was quite an eye full - eyesore.

Yes, complain about that unemployed middle aged lady walking on the grass while the bankers keep you over the barrel and ream you. Sheeple will be sheeple.

You've addressed what my question is Demondog: how does a bunch of well-meaning folks hanging out in a park in downtown Portland result in bankers not reaming me anymore? The Tea Party is full of psychotics, but they're getting their issues filtered up to decisionmakers, without taking up public space for indefinite periods of time. What is the Occupy Portland end game? What will victory looks like, and roughly how long is that going to take? And how in the hell does camping out downtown get Occupy closer to that goal? You can be sympathetic to their general message ( I am ), but I can't see how any of their tactics, which have more negative impacts as the days go by, are going to produce a result.

Give them time. I'm as cynical as the next guy when it comes to anything political (or just anything), but I think they've accomplished a decent amount already in the month or so this has been going on. There is a national dialogue about economic inequality, and a voice for economic populism in the media. That hasn't really happened since, what, 1965. In NY the movement is giving considerable weight to progressive tax proposals. And we'll wait and see what impact the Nov. 5th Bank-whateverthefuckthey'recallingit has. Simmmmer dowwwwn.

Clearly, we need to rip out all the grass and install astroturf.

My question: Is this $19,000 damage done to GRASS?! Or is this actual damage to trees, shrubs or otherwise harm the infrastructure of the sidewalks/paths/streets? What kinda damage?