News Jul 10, 2013 at 4:00 am

A Fight's Brewing in Colonel Summers Park

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1
Fuck This Shit! The blocking off of a public space that's out of the rain should be criminal in a place with weather like this. The Pavilion, and all the parks belongs to all of us -including the homeless! On a selfish note, having a sunny park to drink in is fucking rad. Why's the city gotta' be dicks?
2
Fuck this shit, indeed... or rather fuck THAT shit! Meaning the shit and urine that is constantly being deposited in the Col Summers Pavillion. Maybe some of the neighbors burned the outhouses down because no one appeared to be using them anyway and they figured, why pay for a service that is not being used?
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Fencing off the pavilion seems very lazy on PP&R's behalf. Why hasn't a volunteer neighborhood/park watch after 10pm; been brought up at the two meetings they've had? Or perhaps, PP&R could be useful for once and hire some people to security up the park after 10pm? They could fire some mid level administrative people that do pretty much nothing to pay for it.
4
Disrespectful, self-indulgent, entitled twenty year olds ruining public spaces and events for everyone else? Not in Portland! No way!
5
Crazy uninformed hyperbole from so-called activists? Color me surprised.

PP&R clearly states that they want Food Not Bombs to keep doing what they're doing; so obviously Food Not Bombs interprets that as oppression. After all, what good is radical activism if the state apparatus supports you?
6
What Lindsay Walker could do is serve food to the homeless from inside her own home, but she won't. Lots of people in this town willing to campaign for the homeless but I don't hear about a single goddamn one of them offering a couch or even a tent in their backyards.

Hey Lindsay, want to do something productive at Col. Summers park? You can start by picking up the broken pieces of glass I always find in the grass.
7
Its buckman's living room if buckman is a bi polar cross dressing HIV ridden ultimate frisbee professional.
8
WaaaaaaaaaH!!!!! WE are Portland ACTIVISTS and WE want to do WHATEVER WE want and EVERYONE who DOESN'T want what WE want is MEAN. BOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Collapses in sobs and wails like a tattooed toddler).
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Actually, Lindsey does cook and serve food out of her own home. In fact she spent Christmas day feeding houseless folks so maybe instead of posting hateful comments you should get off the internet and actually do something productive. I pay taxes and live in the neighborhood and I absolutely support what Food Not Bombs does in the park. They are a huge asset to the park and often deal with difficult situations that arise there. We live in a country that doesn't care for it's elderly and mentally ill so often they have no place to turn. You can wall up the pavilion and kick them out of the park but where do you think they will go?

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