Earlier we posted that Occupy Portland might be looking to expand to Jamison Square. Now, the Mercury has learned, occupiers will be voting soon on another proposal: To vacate Chapman and Lownsdale squares altogether, as soon as November 5.
A larger version is here. The Mercury obtained a copy of the flier, purportedly put forth by the camp’s peacekeeping team, through its regular request of Mayor Sam Adams’ Occupy-related emails.
Update 4:45 PM: Reid Parham, a volunteer at Occupy Portland, tells me the design and presentation of the flier is “a little suspect, but that the sentiments are “legitimate” and sound like they came from an insider.
“It sounds like a well-packaged proposal nonetheless,” says Parham, indicating he would “support the defense of it.”
Update 4:48 PM: Another occupier offers this: “Anyone is free to bring proposals like this to the GA. However, someone making a fancy flier for their proposal should not mean it’s more or less likely to happen. Given the amount of effort put into the space, it’s unlikely to happen that quickly, but I’m sure many different opinions on moving will be heard.”
The flier was sent to Adams’ office by police spokesman Lieutenant Robert King, joking that he deserves the credit, apparently for his missive earlier today on the poop situation.
OCCUPY THE ROSE GARDEN. AFTER ALL, THE BLAZERS DON’T NEED IT.
Man, this is getting good.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Parham is my last name 😉
It’s fixed. …
There was no way in hell Pearl yuppies were going to allow them to occupy Jamison Square, but man would it have been fun to watch. I mean, look at the hissy fit they threw over public toilets. I kind of really, really wish it would happen just to see the fireworks fly.
Please don’t go! Handcuff yourselves to the trees. Do what you have to, including fighting against the cops when they force you to move. Don’t give into the man! Isn’t that what your protest is about? You can’t give up now!!
They are ‘the Man’
LOL @ naive white libtards!
every time they say that Winter is Coming I picture Sean Bean in my head
and pronounce his name “seen bean”
Psyops 101.
Vote for Sam Adams for more of the same.
Oh wait, you can’t.
Vote for Obama instead.
Didn’t take long at all for the snotty republitards to jump all over this one. As if vacating a park spelled the END of the movement! Some dummies simply prefer their chains and bondage. I’m surprised they’re not taking shit on the Oakland post. I just know these (e.i. YOU) assholes are rooting for the same thing to happen here.
The fact that Occupy PDX activists and organizers are making these moves suggests to me STRATEGY more than anything else.
Matrix, later?
The protest has accomplished nothing more than destroying a city park. After all the incidents reported by the Portland Police, it can no longer be called a peaceable assembly. Lack of support is spreading like wildfire among those of us who work hard, pay our bills, and pay taxes. I am supposedly part of the so-called 99%, but there is no way I would ever endorse this ill-conceived protest.
How would YOU know “workingMan”, your sorry ass wasn’t there in the first place. You can’t even be bothered to start an official account, unregistered comment.
Im a so called YUPPIE FROM THE PEARL and I pay a ton of taxes on all my income which is going to pay for the restoration of the damage you HIPPIES are causing in the parks so put that in your bong and choke!!!! from MILLIONAIR YUPPIE FROM THE PEARL!!!!! P.S. I WILL HONK WHEN I DRIVE BUY IN MY NEW 100,000 DOLLAR BMW.
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon