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Disclaimer
PLEASE NOTE: Not all events listed originate with Occupy Portland.
Events may be attended by Occupiers, or endorsed by the Occupy movement, or they may be simply sponsored by people who share the goals of the Occupy movement. Please refer to each event for specifics, and use the discussion pages to ask questions.

Today

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!

No AC meeting today

Occupy Thanksgiving PDX

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Purpose

Our invitation to #OccupyThanksgivingPDX

We are park-upying Thanksgiving Day!
  • This is a quintessentially American holiday, and is an important part of American cultural narratives.
  • This is also a holiday that commemorates the fact that the European colonizers began their expansive ambitions and conquest and genocide of the First Nations, in the name of "freedom" -- something this holiday tends to sugar-coat.
  • On this day, there are many -- and growing number of -- Portlanders who are unhoused and, since most of other Portlanders have a privilege of being able to stay home, take a day off, and spend time with family, they are left outside often with no place to go and nothing to eat. We recognize this social inequity.
  • Today, Thanksgiving Day is the official beginning of the "Holiday Season," which is essentially an orgy of consumerism orchestrated by the top 1%. Many publicly-traded big corporations count on this season, and the Fourth Quarter earnings report affects share prices significantly.
  • We occupy this day to reclaim the Thanksgiving as a time for community, sharing, and abundance.

PLEASE RSVP so that we can prepare for the number of people who will be attending.

Here is a direct link to RSVP form:

RSVP Form Click Here

The festivities run from noon until 7 p.m.; everyone is welcome to participate in part or all of this event.

You are invited to come when you can and leave when you must. With people coming in and going there should be something going on throughout the event. Also feel free to bring your friends and neighbors, and any random person you might meet on the street. This is about community-building and re-capturing the spirit of autonomous, collectivist collaboration that was a big part of our occupation in the downtown parks (minus tents, troubles, and A-camps).

We will be having:

  • Lunch and dinner, potluck style
  • Open-mic music and spoken words
  • Community discussions on various topics
  • Games
  • Thanksgiving General Assembly. But mostly a fun exercise where people who are new to the Occupy movement can learn how to participate in a GA, or organize their own GAs.
Tell your friends about this. #ChaplainsOccupyPDX Interfaith Guild of Chaplains

More details with this update on Nov. 21

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The weather report indicates a good possibility of rain on Thanksgiving Day. We will be park-upying the Wallace Park in Northwest Portland, and there is a covered picnic area with a table.

The park is accessible by TriMet 77 bus and also a short distance from the nearest 15 stop, as well as the Portland Streetcar (23rd & Marshall).

So far we are expecting a pretty low-key event, with some people coming and going, with a total of no more than 20 at any given moment (take this into account when making food, although it is always nice to have more than not enough) -- which should keep us below the crowd level that would technically require a permit. In any case, with the history of #OccupyPortland-related events so far, the City has not been too stringent on permits, due to the possible issues with the freedom of assembly. Since this event is sponsored by the Interfaith Guild of Chaplains, it is further protected under religious freedom, any less than any church picnic at a park. The reason why we are requesting RSVP also has to do with health regulation -- as we cannot really give away food to the "general public" even if we aren't selling it (as they say on Last Thursdays on Alberta every year).

We are also inviting a number of VIPs as a gesture of goodwill and peace-building.

Sponsored by : This event is sponsored and organized by the #OccupyPortland Interfaith Guild of Chaplains, an independent and autonomous group. This is not an official #OccupyPortland General Assembly-sanctioned event.

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FREE Thanksgiving dinner

  • Date: Thursday, November 24
  • Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Location: Celebration Tabernacle Church 8131 N Denver St. (at Kilpatrick)
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Purpose

Come join us for a Free Thanksgiving Day Feast!!

In collaboration with Po’Shines Café de la Soul and Celebration Tabernacle Church, PROPER is sponsoring its 11th Annual FREE Thanksgiving Feast on Thanksgiving Day, 12-4pm. A full Thanksgiving dinner with vegetarian options and live (and lively) entertainment, kicking off with award-winning singer and storyteller Anne-Louise Sterry and friends.

Doing Thanksgiving community-style is a beautiful thing, come join us on this special day.

Volunteers and donations welcome.

The available volunteer positions as of November 16, 2011:

  • Donations — perishable and non-perishable Thanksgiving-related items, mostly turkeys and hams, or paper goods, coupons, vouchers
  • Flyering the neighborhood — wear walking shoes, go with a group or do it on your own time!
  • Administration — website development, marketing
  • Signs and Banners, Decorate — hang banners in designated areas (appropriate materials and locations given) Help create other event signage if necessary. Some physical exertion required
  • Cook or bake — experience and food handler’s license required, prepare vegan menu options, vegan ingredients and professional kitchen provided, meals may be prepared in advance where presence is not required on event day
  • Be a part of the Entertainment — call Deborah at 503-286-1488 (music, poetry, storytelling)
  • Wall of Gratitude — (long or short) write your personal story and we will print for the Wall of Thanksgiving to encourage others. We’re hoping the end product is a wall showing a broad perspective of what it means to be thankful. Send to info@properusa.net.

Shifts are evenings and weekdays typically 2-4 hours depending on the position. Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older to participate. Family positions are available.

Robin at 503.890-5393 - info@properusa.net

See you at the table: 12-4PM Thursday, November 24 – Thanksgiving Day

CELEBRATION TABERNACLE

8131 N Denver Ave, (Kenton District) North Portland OR 97217

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OCCUPY THE VALLEY RIVER MALL!!

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  • Date: Thursday November 25, 2011
  • Time: 11:30pm until 2:30am
  • Location: Valley River Center Mall 293 Valley River Center, Eugene, OR 97401
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Purpose

For every dollar or credit spent on gifts, we sacrifice time, giving something material in exchange for providing our friends and family with the gift of ourselves.

We remain deprived of connection with those around us, and struggle to fill this emptiness with commodities that we do not need. In reality, all we need is one another. BUY NOTHING.

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Text @oe_actions to 23559 to sign up for flashmob text alert system/instructions and actions alerts.

On Buy Nothing Day, “the goal is to give presence, not presents,” says Kristen Carpenter, a member of the Occupy Eugene Actions committee. “The only gifts to give are those that can be measured in heart. Break the chains of consumerism, give your family the gift of time.”

In celebration of Buy Nothing Day, this Nov. 24th (Thanksgiving) at 11
45pm until 9:00 pm, Nov. 25th (Black Friday) there will be a midnight madness flash mob, “Occupy the Mall” at the Valley River Center in Eugene, OR.

You’ve probably seen other flash mobs, where unsuspecting strangers in a public space were suddenly treated a visual and audio feast of music, signing and dancing. Word is that this event will be “EPIC”!

Form an affinity group and make it a party! Contact Kristen at delta32 [at] mac.com for affinity group instructions.

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Friday

AC meeting today at 6pm PSU Smith Center cafeteria

Walmart Protest 11 25 11

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  • Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
  • Time: 9:00am - 9:00pm.
  • Location: Portland and Vancouver
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Purpose

BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY WE ARE PROPOSING WALMART PROTESTS AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO JOIN US.

There are protests planned in both Portland and in Vancouver.

Walmart Portland 4200 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97266
Friday, November 25th, we are going to enter WalMart. 
No chants, no signs.
Just enter like you are there to shop.
Then at 12:30p, listen up because there will be a mic-check. 
If we can have people through out the store so our message is heard it would be more effective.
In solidarity ♥
We will be protesting on sidewalk at Walmart in Vancouver on Hwy 99 at 9am.  
Contact info is: occupywalmartvanc@gmail.com. Thank you
Walmart is one of the main contributors in the incredibly negative impact on the American economy and we should all start buying LOCAL!

Every year, the day after Thanksgiving turns into one of the biggest shopping holidays of the year. With most of that money being spent in big corporate stores with poor benefits and ethics for their employees. This year, let's change that.

WalMart is one of the worse culprits of poor employee standards and ethics.

But if you would rather not be out on Black Friday, maybe you could consider some of these activities... Dreading the holiday season? The frantic rush and stress? The to-do lists and sales hype? The spiritless hours trapped in malls?

This year, why not gather together your loved ones and decide to do things differently?

With the simplest of plans you can create a new rhythm, purpose and meaning for the holidays.

Why not take the spirit of Buy Nothing Day and morph it into Buy Nothing Christmas?

With catastrophic climate change looming, we the rich one billion people on the planet have to consume less! And if that's too extreme for grandma and the kids, try for a Buy Less Christmas. And maybe a buy local, buy fairer, buy indie Christmas. Whatever you decide, 'tis the season to reclaim our year-end celebrations and make them our own again.

If you want to go one step further off the consumer treadmill, consider one of these actions from previous holiday seasons
  • Give your friends and family a "gift exemption" card
  • Ask shoppers "What Would Jesus Buy?"
  • Get some friends together (or go solo), dress as santa and meditate in the middle of a busy shopping mall
  • Check out buynothingchristmas.org to check out more actions (or inactions) you can take this holiday season



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Fur Free Friday

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Purpose

March starts 11:00 AM (Come 30 minutes early!) Meet up at Downtown Nordstrom (Corner of SW Broadway and Yamhill)

  • Signs, literature, and banners provided – just bring yourself and all of your friends!

We have the potential to fill the streets and demand that Portland becomes fur free.

  • Note: Please wear all black to this event. It is somber day of mourning for all of the wildlife lost to the fur industry. We need a presence of distress, anger and solidarity.
Fur-Free Friday is one of the few nationally recognized days in the animal rights movement and involves numerous animal activist groups.

There are a total of 45 million animals yearly that the fur industry believes can be turned into products. They are fetishized, abstracted from their subjective, wild existence and turned into objects of value on the globalized fashion market. 45 million animals that are the victims of a war against the wilderness. If they are not killed by the traps, laid out among their land and community, then they are driven into the confines of massive concentration camps. They become the prisoners of the war, held for their labor (females, forcibly bred for production) or themselves becoming objectified as commodities.

All of this madness, destruction, and injustice are the externalities of an industry that exists only for the benefit the 1%. Fur products cost tens of thousands of dollars and amount to nothing more than status symbols for the privileged elite, all at the expense of animals, human communities and the environment. The fur industry is a symptom of global problem of imbalanced power and wealth. It is a manifestation of the ecological and capitalist crisis. It must be opposed.

Fur sales were just banned in West Hollywood. Portland should be no different! This is our city! Our city will not be littered with the carcasses of wildlife! They will not be marketed as fashion or accessories any longer! It is time that Portland becomes overrun with activists demanding that the fur industry dissolve into nothingness!


Join us on the streets!


Organizations such as Portland Animal Defense League and In Defense of Animals, along with many other local supporters in a protest march against the use of fur.


http://pdxanimaldefenseleague.org/oppose-the-fur-trade-fur-free-friday-11-25-11/posted-in-campaigns

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COMMUNITY Friday - Gather, connect and share with your community

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  • Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
  • Time: 11am – 10pm
  • Location: LightBox Kulturhaus - 2027 NE MLK Blvd (Just next to Tiny's Coffee, accessed via Tiny's small parking lot on MLK)
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Purpose

Gather, connect and share with your community

We're cultivating an opportunity for people to gather and connect with their community on a day typically associated with the economic bottom line.

We are encouraged by the widespread activism throughout the world. We seek to grow and foster community connection and support community rights.

Bring your families and friends (young and old) to meet and share a day with your local community.

Schedule:

  • 11am - Morning meditation and Sound healing
  • Noon - 3pm
    • Multiple Activities, including:
      • Community 'living room conversation' and discussion on topics which you feel passionate.
      • Cider Pressing - Press fresh juice from fruits that grow naturally on this earth. Bring apples or pears from your neighborhood trees to press and enjoy their sweet flavors.
      • Multi-media - brief video examples of positive, informative community actions taking place around the world.
  • 3:30 - 5pm - Paul Cienfuegos - will speak about communities using the legal system to self-empower and highlight portions of his workshops and talks, for example: 'First Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule: We the People Are More Powerful Than We Dare to Believe' and 'Is a Truly Sustainable Society Achievable As Long As Corporate Rights Trump the Rights of People?'
  • 5-6:30pm - Community Sing-A-Long - Lewis Childs will lead the community in a sing-a-long. Please bring your copy of Rise Up Singing and an instrument you enjoy playing.
  • 8pm - Evening Movie
    • Two options:
      • Thrive [What on Earth will it Take]
      • Inside Job [film that exposes the truth behind 2008 economic crisis]
Ongoing throughout the day
  • Community Visioning Board - Creative outlet for those who express with pens, collage, paint and more.
  • Screen printing station - bring a t-shirt or similar type clothing to screen print and take home
  • Oral tradition storytelling
Bring your open heart and a desire to engage in conscious communication with those around you.

If you have a few leftovers or beverages from the 24th, bring them or put them in an electric crock-pot as warm food keeps the heart beating and the mind clear.

If you'd like to present, speak or perform on Friday please contact Peter Davidson with details.

This event is open to all who would like to participate, please invite your community.



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Occupy Black Friday!

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  • Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
  • Time: 12pm – 3pm
  • Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, Whose Living Room? OUR Living Room!!
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Purpose

March meeting at pioneer square this Friday at 12:00pm. We will begin the march at 12:30pm

Meet us at Pioneer courthouse square and join us to march on the big stores and express our frustration with corporate greed, environmental and civil negligence.

  • Bring your occu-pride and seasonal spirit.
  • Wear a santa hat, antlers, carry a menorah.
  • Bring festive cheer!
  • Bring: Signs, Banners, Your occu-pride and Holiday cheer



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Occupy Cafe: A Community Conversation

  • Date: Friday November 25, 2011
  • Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Church 1034 SW 13th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97205
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Purpose

Occupy Cafe exists to inclusively connect people, to share and listen.

Come build community and the movement! We will have free coffee, tea, food & entertainment. There will be space for people to "booth' or hold space for small groups to discuss topics of shared interest.

There will be live entertainment, and arts & crafts. Conversation group kick-offs at 4:30 & 5:30. People are also welcome to just hang out and relax, as long as they are respectful of the other activities in the space.

ABOUT OCCUPY CAFE:

Occupy Cafe exists to inclusively connect people, to share and listen.

The more we share and hear our individual and collective needs, wants and visions, the more powerful our initiatives to create real change become. Real and meaningful change for good comes when we, the people, stand, speak and act together, cooperatively and collaboratively. The agenda is open within the theme of building community and a movement.

This is in the spirit of "World Cafe"[1] and "Open Space Technology". The agenda is open within the theme of building community and a movement.

This effort has connections to some great online & conference call resources too! See http://www.OccupyCafe.org to learn more!

We will have some great music and information tables. Please let us know if you want to volunteer or can bring needed items.



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Light of Life on Black Friday: A Vigil for Peace & Goodwill

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  • Date: Fri, November 25, 4pm – Sat, November 26, 10am

Purpose

Housing Is A Human Right!!

Join us in a mass day of action on Black Friday to challenge the unjust consciousness of greed and excessive materialism. We will illuminate the darkness until morning by lining the outer perimeter of Pioneer Square with ourselves and candles.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
  • Bring tea lights only, and bring enough for the entire night until morning (10am) - Don't forget matches or a lighter!
  • BELLS if you have them! Bring extra to share too!
  • A sign with a nonviolent message about poverty, greed, or homelessness.
  • A sponsor with a roof who can keep your things safe, bring you food/necessities, and bathroom breaks.
  • A partner to take shifts with, and or replacement
  • Warm clothes, shoes & an Umbrella
  • A warm thermos with a warm beverage & snacks.
  • Endurance & Cheer!



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Critical Mass!

  • Date: November 25th 2011
  • Time: 5:30 pm
  • Location: Underneath Burnside bridge on the westside, by naito parkway
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Purpose

November 2011 Buy Nothing Day


Critical Mass in November coincides with the day after Thanksgiving--known in the popular press as "Black Friday," i.e., the biggest shopping day of the year, and known in more progressive circles as "Buy Nothing Day," a day to relax in your pajamas all day, watch movies, eat leftovers with friends, work on handmade holiday gifts--or at the very least, a day *not* to drive out to the big boxes and trade punches with six hundred desperate strangers over the last $388 laptop. Critical Mass Portland converged in an anarchically unorganized fashion to share bagels, bananas, cookies, friendly chat, even a bin of spare change where you could leave some or take some depending on your means. We didn't buy anything--and some of us went out afterward and liberated perfectly good food from NE Portland garbage bins.

* 5:30pm - Meet up underneath the Burnside bridge.
* 6:00pm - Get your ride on!

Bring your bike, your friends, your lights, and your biggest smiles!

Critical Mass is:

  • A leaderless, spontaneous bike ride through the streets of Portland (and hundreds of other cities worldwide)
  • A time to ride your bike without fear through busy downtown streets
  • A great way to meet other bicyclists, pass out fliers, learn about other events
  • A meandering celebration of bicycling
  • Something different for everyone
  • Family-friendly
  • A visionary projection of what our future might look like

Critical Mass is not:

  • Dangerous, violent, threatening, or exclusive
  • A place to buy, sell, or capitalize
  • Planned in advance
  • A race to the finish

You will want to have a white front light and red rear light / reflector in order to avoid getting a citation. If you ride to antagonize motorists, please choose another time / place, some of us have worked very hard to reduce and mellow the police presence.

Critical Mass meets every month, last Friday, 5:30P (departing around 6:00) from the North Park Blocks (NW Park and Couch, by the elephant)

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Critical Mass rides have been perceived as protest and intimidation activities. Organizing the rides and communicating the desires and problems of the cyclists to the city council is sometimes the goal of the event. In other cases, they are described as "political-protest rides".


Sponsored by Portland Critical Mass. You can join an email group for Critical Mass at https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/pdxcriticalmass

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Buy Nothing Day Bike Ride

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  • Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
  • Time: 5:30pm
  • Location: Jamison Square, NW 10th and Johnson
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Purpose

  • Meet at 5:30, ride at 6:00.
  • Buy Nothing Day signs and costumes encouraged but optional.
  • Bike lights recommended.



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This event is being sponsored by "Shift" They are part of the World Carfree Network, which promotes alternatives to car dependence.

The image displayed is not provided by them. I just thought it was cute!

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Proposal for Indoor Operations Space

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  • Date: Friday, November 25, 2011
  • Time: 7pm Spokes Council
  • Location: Director's Park
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Purpose

There is a proposal coming up this Friday, November 25th, regarding a possible indoor operations space made available for Occupy Portland.

Please come and be a part of this decision making process. If you can, go check out the location beforehand and see what you think.

Below is the following information on the proposal.

Location
St Francis School SE 12th & Pine, Portland Oregon

St. Francis School is a large multi building complex that has served as a Portland Social Justice and activism hub for over 3 decades!

Building Specs
  • 800 sqft classroom
  • Free use of 1,500 sqft seminar space
  • Free use of an additional dining room space large enough to feed and sit 200+

(The dining room also has a stage w/microphone)

Rent

$800 on a month to month lease/utilities included

Proposal

As winter approaches and harsh weather closes in, we may want to explore a multi faceted approach for sustaining the Occupy Portland Movement. Creating a central hub of operations and or meeting spaces could serve as an addition to outdoor encampments. Previous Occupy survey results, along with other GA & Spokes Council discussions have all had an over all positive response to the idea of pursuing an indoor space in addition to (not instead of) occupations. St. Francis, based on current research is one of the most viable options so far. It is close in, has a large space, and is cheap as far as rent goes.

COST

A large free space would be ideal, but until this option reveals itself this may be the best interim option. First Unitarian has agreed to put down $1,000 towards the first months rent, and we have already raised, in previous online fund raising $800 or more without even asking for a specific need. Additionally, since it is only a month to month lease, if we decide that the space no longer serves our needs, we can leave and go somewhere else.

BENEFITS
  • Central warm indoor space
  • Large enough for operations, committee meetings, GA’s, Spokes Council, Educational Seminars, and other events we wish to host
  • Low overhead with utilities included
  • No contract
  • Draws in new folks from other communities
  • Draws in other folks who have not been coming


Spokes Council

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  • Date: Sundays - Tuesdays - Fridays
  • Time: 7pm - 10pm
  • Location: Director Park, SW Park and Yamhill
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Purpose

Please spread the word through committee/caucus list servs and also ATTEND!

It is especially important to become involved with the the spokes council meetings and other meetings where actions are decided on! This will be a great chance to voice your ideas, to re-group as committees, assess, and plan for moving forward.


Saturday

Bikes For Humanity PDX Volunteer Repair Clinics - Saturdays

  • Date: Every Saturday
  • Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
  • Location: Community Exchange Bike School, 4038 SE Brooklyn St, Portland
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Purpose

Bikes For Humanity PDX (B4HPDX) is a community service project aimed at providing the public affordable refurbished bikes, repair classes & workshop space.

They have 100+ donated used bikes & need volunteers to catalog, clean and refurbish the bikes for bike adoption events.

Shop space has been donated for volunteer training and bike repair. Weekly volunteer clinics starting on Tuesday & Saturday.

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For full details see http://B4HPDX.org


Pretty-Much-Annual Craft Day

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  • Date: Saturday, November 26, 2011
  • Time: 1:00pm until 6:00pm
  • Location: Bridgeport United Church of Christ 621 NE 76th Ave, Portland, OR 97213
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Purpose

Help complete one of BUCC's famous banners, make holiday cards, work on your own craft project in the company of friends. We have cider and X-mas CDs and it's also a great way to unload some T-day leftovers.

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Sunday

Sunday OccuPeace Meeting

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  • Date: Sundays
  • Time: 12:00pm until 3:00pm
  • Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
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Purpose

Join the Occupy Portland movement as we gather every Sunday at noon.

We will discuss and plan upcoming events and actions, hold trainings, support OWS nationwide, support each other and our community.

This will be an ongoing nonviolent effort to maintain focus and attention to the issues of inequality that 99% of America face as the result of corporate greed and corruption.

Families and all walks of life welcome. Let us come together in unity and use our voices in unison to bring about the changes needed in our economic system.

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Spokes Council

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  • Date: Sundays - Tuesdays - Fridays
  • Time: 7pm - 10pm
  • Location: Director Park, SW Park and Yamhill
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Purpose

Please spread the word through committee/caucus list servs and also ATTEND!

It is especially important to become involved with the the spokes council meetings and other meetings where actions are decided on! This will be a great chance to voice your ideas, to re-group as committees, assess, and plan for moving forward.


Monday

Tuesday

We Know Our Rights Protest

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  • Date: Tuesday 11/29/2011
  • Time: 12:00pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Corporate media and the Police have taken drastic measures to suppress our first amendment right to peaceably assemble.

They have spent millions of tax payers dollars to interfere with peaceful protests, marches and actions that bring light to corporate corruption, corporate collusion with our government and politicians and the inequities between the very wealthy and the rest of us.

The brutal tactics they have used to bring fear and suppress our message has harmed students, veterans and peaceful protesters nationwide and include pepper spray, tear gas, baton beatings, oppressive riot gear and aiming their loaded weapons at innocent citizens.

In Zuccoti park, New York they prevented the press from witnessing the removal of peaceful protesters and restricted airspace over the park to prevent the press from practicing their right of freedom of the press and free speech.

On November 29th at noon we will hold a peaceful protest/picket to show Corporate media and the Corporate owned Police that WE KNOW OUR RIGHTS.

This action coincides with the 1:00 pm court appearance of the Jamison Square Protestors.

Please bring signs that send the message that it is our first amendment right of the people peaceably to assemble and to address the government for redress of grievances.

The First Amendment:

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.


Bikes For Humanity Volunteer Repair Clinics - Tuesdays

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  • Date: Every Tuesday
  • Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
  • Location: Community Exchange Bike School, 4038 SE Brooklyn St, Portland
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Purpose

Bikes For Humanity PDX(B4HPDX) is a community service project aimed at providing the public affordable refurbished bikes, repair classes & workshop space.

They have 100+ donated used bikes & need volunteers to catalog, clean and refurbish the bikes for bike adoption events.

Shop space has been donated for volunteer training and bike repair. Weekly volunteer clinics starting on Tuesday & Saturday.

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For full details see http://www.b4hpdx.org


Spokes Council

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  • Date: Sundays - Tuesdays - Fridays
  • Time: 7pm - 10pm
  • Location: Director Park, SW Park and Yamhill
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Purpose

Please spread the word through committee/caucus list servs and also ATTEND!

It is especially important to become involved with the the spokes council meetings and other meetings where actions are decided on! This will be a great chance to voice your ideas, to re-group as committees, assess, and plan for moving forward.


Wednesday

ALERT! SECOND City Council Hearing on Changes to Police Oversight System

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  • Date: Wed, November 30, 2011
  • Time: 2pm – 3pm
  • Location: Portland City Council Chambers, SW 4th and Madison
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Purpose

ALERT! SECOND City Council Hearing on Changes to Police Oversight System and Bureau Policies

Portland's "Independent" Police Review Division (IPR) was established in 2001 and given authority to conduct investigations separately from the Portland Police Bureau's Internal Affairs (IA) unit ... yet NO SUCH INVESTIGATION HAS EVER HAPPENED.

In March, 2010, the IPR was given broader authority to review IA investigations, but The People's 9-member Citizen Review Committee was told to wait before they receive more power. A group of citizens, police, and city officials met for four months and, in Dec 2010, presented 41 recommendations for change to City Council.

On November 16, the City Auditor (who oversees IPR) proposed a meager SIX changes to the ordinance, only three of which in any way reflect community concerns. The Mayor and Chief put out a document essentially agreeing that the CRC should not have any more power than what the Auditor proposes, claiming the CRC's role is simply to review the quality of police-led investigations.

CRC's tagline is "community oversight of the Portland Police Bureau." It is not "oversight of the IPR and Internal Affairs."

We need to demand more change. Ask for ALL 41 Stakeholder Report recommendations to be adopted. We need true civilian oversight, and if we don't get more meaningful change now, we may have to wait another 10 years for a chance.

On the 16th, 17 members of the public testified in favor of more changes and/or against police brutality. A second hearing on November 30 will allow more public input.

More info - Changes to Portland's Civilian Oversight System, here: http://www.portlandcopwatch.org

  • Who: Portland City Council (call to action from Portland Copwatch)
  • What: Hearing on Changes to Police Oversight System and Bureau Policies
  • When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 2:00 PM
  • Where: Portland City Council Chambers, SW 4th and Madison
  • How: Just show up for support, or sign up and testify to Council

Flyer for event: http://portlandcopwatch.org/ipr_allout_flyer1111c.pdf

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Over 150 recommendations were made from several different groups. The council is implementing 7.

From Portland Copwatch

Police Oversight Stakeholder Report: 41 recommendations (mostly IPR/CRC)

Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform: 49 recommendations (7 about IPR/CRC)

Citizen Review Committee: 10 recommendations (about shootings), 58 recommendations (about IPR/CRC system), 9 priority recommendations (about IPR/CRC)

So including overlap and duplicates, we found, as noted below, over 150 recommendations covered in Mayor/Chief (103) and Auditor's (115) documents.

The Auditor's proposal to change the IPR/CRC ordinance address just three (3) of those proposed changes, though it now also includes four (4) other changes that are cosmetic or clarifying in nature, so a total of 7.

Note also this excessive force information: Portland Police plan to switch to Red Sabre Pepper Spray soon. It is 7 times hotter than current Def-Tec. Feel free to testify about this.

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WTF! Why Tuition Fees? WALKOUT

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  • Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
  • Time: 12:00pm until 7:00pm
  • Location: University of Oregon EMU Amphitheater
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Purpose

For the teachers who provide our education and for the students who pay for it: we will march in solidarity to raise awareness of the injustices existent in the education system.

  • University of Oregon faculty face wage cuts and administrators receive salary raises...
  • Already in-debt students face tuition increases...
  • Academics get put on the back-burner for the sake of athletics...
We stand together in solidarity for equitable education.

The walkout begins at 12:15 pm at the EMU Amphitheater, where there will be speakers, an open forum, and participatory actions.

Check out the Operation Walk Out page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Operation-Walk-Out/261988420507206

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Thursday

Holiday Open House

  • Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
  • Time: 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM
  • Location: Portland Business Alliance 200 SW Market Street in Lobby Conference Room
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Purpose

mic check! MIC CHECK!! MIC CHECK!!!

The Alliance’s is having an annual Holiday Open House.

We hope to see you there for an OCCUPY THE PBA!

Perhaps we could sing some of the rewritten carols...

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Race, Class and Occupy

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  • Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
  • Time: 5:30pm until 8:00pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Church of Portland Oregon 1211 SW Main Street, Portland, OR 97205
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Purpose

We know that the communities springing up from the Occupy movement are struggling with race and class in a way that reflects the broader divisions created by racism and class inequality in our country.

At the same time, the response to Occupy by local governments and America's most powerful corporate interests is shaped by racism and the drive to maintain class inequality as the status quo. Let's talk about how to keep our vision for racial and economic justice front and center in the Occupy movement, as well as in all the social justice movements we're a part of.

Our Justice Socials are smaller-scale evening get-togethers to bring people together for socializing and political discussion. We often have a featured speaker and topic, with ample time for meeting new people, catching up with folks you know, and stimulating conversation.

For this Justice Social, we'll start the conversation by hearing from a panel of speakers:

  • Sharon Gary-Smith, MRG Executive Director
  • Shizuko Hashimoto, Occupy Portland participant and MRG Board Member
  • Israel Bayer, Street Roots Executive Director
  • Kate Lore, Social Justice Minister, First Unitarian Church of Portland
Light snacks will be provided. Wheelchair accessible.

For more info or to RSVP: Contact Sheryl Sackman at sheryl@mrgfoundation.org

This Justice Social is co-hosted by the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation and the First Unitarian Church of Portland

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ONE NIGHT STAND

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  • Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
  • Time: 7:00pm until 10:00pm
  • Location: ADX Portland 417 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

Come to our One Night Stand! (You know you want to)

What it is

A super cool night dedicated to keeping your holiday shopping local, easy, and really really fun. We’ll have great music, free food and (alcoholic!) drinks and a holiday photo booth with amazingly cheesy props for you to have the ultimate card for a Season’s Greetings. Plus gift-wrapping, cute girls and did we mention EASY SHOPPING?

Who we are

One Night Stand is sponsored and curated by Student Stylists (founded by Portland Monthly Fashion Editor Eden Dawn and Film/Personal Stylist Kami Gray), because we wanted to throw a party and we like to have fun. Check us out at www.StudentStylists.com

Vendors

We will be offering a ONE NIGHT ONLY four-hour personal shopping package for $89! That’s 25% off our already very low price of $120. Let one of our Student Stylists get you all ready for the holidays by shopping for your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, teenager, toddler, or anyone else on your list!

How much it is

Zip, zero, zilch. Free admission, drinks are on us, snacks are free, no charge for the pictures. Put your money into buying things from rad Portland businesses and just come say hi. Oh and it's all ages so don't use the kiddos as an excuse to stay home.

See you December 1st! ♥



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Femme of Color Gathering

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  • Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
  • Time: 6:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: TBA in Portland
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Purpose

Femmes of color get so isolated in Whitelandia. Let's get together and chat... Location TBA but mark your calendar!

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Weekly Action Committee Meetings

  • Every Monday and Thursday at 5:30PM.

The meetings are at the PSU Smith Center cafeteria in the SW corner behind the ladies restroom. To submit a new event or idea mail to: OccupyPDXAction@groups.facebook.com or to contact action committee email Tommy at tboypunk@gmail.com. Please see the forum for notes on previous meetings, and discussions regarding actions.

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