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| = Labor Solidarity March - March Together with Occupy Portland!! =
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| [[File:319147 298053923542423 294421993905616 1448331 337174653 n.jpg|right]]
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| * Date '''Wednesday October 26, 2011'''
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| * Time '''5:00pm - 8:00pm'''
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| * Location [[Director Park]], 815 SW Park, between SW Yamhill & Taylor on Park Ave, downtown Portland.
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| * Invite Page: [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249047295143069 LABOR COMMUNITY MARCH - Solidarity with Occupy Portland!]
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| ;Flyer: [http://www.oregonafscme.com/docs/OccupyPdx1026%2Epdf Occupy Portland Labor March]
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| === Directions/Instructions ===
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| Assemble at Director Park at 5 p.m. and at 6 p.m we will march downtown in a show of solidarity.<br />We will march past the Occupation at [[Chapman Square]] and end at [[Pioneer Courthouse Square]].
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| Organized labor is coming together to support the Occupy Portland movement. [[Oregon AFSCME]] leadership encourages your participation as we partner with the Oregon AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice and others.
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| Occupy Portland is made up of real Americans pulling together to hold big banks and multinational corporations accountable for the financial crisis we all face.
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| Looking for more background information to better understand the ‘Occupy’ movement?
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| ;Please visit their webpage
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| [http://occupypdx.org/2011/10/07/day2-occupy-portland/ Occupy Portland in peaceful solidarity with OWS]
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| Remind everyone that the 99% are not just the representatives standing our ground in parks and empty lots across Oregon and the nation. Join the [[Oregon AFL-CIO]], [[AFSCME]], Laborers', and more unions for sure to come. The [[WE ARE OREGON]] drum core will also be there to put a beat to our steps!
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| LABOR won't stand for corporatization of our communities - not on Wall Street and not in the City of Portland! GOOD jobs, NOT CUTS!
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| = International Occupy March =
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| * Date '''Saturday, October 29th, 2011'''
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| === Purpose ===
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| This is the night before the G20 leaders Summit. This will be one of our regular Saturday marches, but in solidarity with other marches happening that day worldwide. This is a march against the greed of wall street, and in support of values of the 99%
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| = Zombie March =
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| * Date '''Monday October 31st, 2011'''
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| === Purpose ===
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| The Anti-Coal Zombie March is organized by Rising Tide to highlight the banks that fund coal mining (Bank of America, Wells Fargo...). This easily meshes with OP intentions.
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| = National Break up with your Bank Day =
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| * Date '''Saturday November 5th, 2011'''
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| === Purpose ===
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| Vote with your dollar. Get your money out of wall street banks and back into your community by moving your money to a local credit union. Save money by avoiding the new debit card fees banks are forcing on consumers even though the banks continue to rake in record profits.
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| = Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline=
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| * Date '''Sunday, November 6th, 2011
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| The action will replicate DC's "Hands Around The White House". Our local version on Sunday, November 6th, would be "Hands Around The Federal Building" and a march to a nearby theater for a free viewing of the new documentary, Pipe Dreams. This is a film on the Keystone XL by Leslie Iwerks and is short-listed for an Academy Award nomination.
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| === Purpose ===
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| The Tar Sands/ Keystone XL pipeline is one of the biggest looming disastesr in North America, but most people have never heard of it.
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| Please watch this [http://act.350.org/cms/thanks/november6?akid=1353.158564.RlopVU&rd=1&t=3 90 sec. video] and this
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| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QqsLsMroM 4 minute video] by Josh Fox, Academy Award nominated producer of Gasland.
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