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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.

Learn more about the Action Committee and how to help.

Occupy the Holidays Buy Local Click here for details

Stay connected! - Link to Occupy Salem Calendar and Link to Occupy Eugene ~also~ LA Invite

Please feel welcome to send pictures, stories, and story ideas to: portland.occupier@gmail.com. Also, here's the link to the blog: http://www.portlandoccupier.org/

Today

Swarm the Banks!

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Purpose

At 1:30PM meet to rally and get current with the latest Bike Swarm happenings, swarm leaves at 2. We’ll then take a quick jaunt around the local megabanks with some nice side-streets in between. Route will be determined on an as needed basis.

All our encouraged to ride. This is an excellent opportunity for everyone to take our message out to the streets and straight to the banks. Flyers will be provided but all are encouraged to bring their own sign, messages, flyers, or stickers! Let Portland know there are alternatives to these giant decaying institutions!

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Holiday Bazaar at Beaverton's Shilo Inn!!

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  • Date: Thursday at 3:00pm until Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:00pm

Purpose

Join us for Shilo Inn's first ever Holiday Bazaar.

Dozens of vendors from the metro area will showcase their handmade clothing items, crafts, high end jewelry, Hat makers, photography, and more!

It's a great way to get a jump start on you Christmas list, while supporting local artisans and local soloprenuers.

Thursday and Friday are our Happy Hour Bazaar. from 3-7pm Come on in, have a cocktail and shop at the same time!!

Saturday and Sunday are 11am-3pm....Join us for Brunch and peruse the tables for that unique item.

This season more than ever it's important to shop local, and proceeds go to the Beaverton Education Foundation!

Come enjoy the spirit of the season at The SW Shilo Inn first ever Holiday Bazaar!!

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Welcome To My World Artists Reception

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  • Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
  • Time: 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
  • Location: 23 Sandy Gallery
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Purpose

A stellar list of area artists were invited to consider a similar, unusual, three-dimensional object as canvas—a vintage world globe. This invitational exhibition was conceived and co-curated by new-to-Portland artist, Robert Tomlinson and is co-curated and hosted by 23 Sandy Gallery. The artists were asked to transform, build, infuse, reduce or reinvent the globe using the expressive power of cartography, exploring the form of the globe to create a compelling new work of art.

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Several of the artists focused on global politics and world affairs. Global warming was tackled by Jim Neidhardt with a resin coated glove that seems to be melting. Kerry Davis used his globe, titled Under the Wire,“to represent the damaging grip of the military, industrial and corporate paradigm that has encircled and enclosed our planet and the recognition that we have little time left to challenge and change the plight of our planet Earth.” Allison Bruns painted her globe with infamous dictators to remind us that “nothing causes greater change in the world than the slaughter of a population.”

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Labor Outreach Committee Meeting

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Manifest Unity!

Purpose

This is a reminder that our next meeting of the Labor Outreach Committee is this evening: Friday, 12/2, 5:30pm-6:45pm at the First Unitarian Church Room B303.

Agenda items so far will include
  1. Discussion of the December 12th Occupy Action and our relation and/or preparations for it.
  2. Other upcoming events (Dec. 11th Longview meeting, Dec. 17th Immigrants Rights march, others?)
  3. Next Steps: "Peoples' Assembly," Teach-ins, etc.
  4. Better organization & goals of union outreach/ "union liaison" team
  5. Homework & announcements



Other details
We should also be aware that there is a planned reoccupation on Saturday, see the occupyportland.org website for more details.

Please forward this info to those interested.
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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.


DRIVEN DEAD C.C. TOY DRIVE

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  • Date: Friday, December 2, 2011
  • Time: 8:00pm until 2:30am
  • Location: Club 21 2035 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR
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Purpose

Driven Dead C.C. annual toy drive at Club 21 this Friday Dec.2nd

  • Johnny Credit & the Cash Machine
  • Johnny Payola's Hayride
  • The Twangshifters
  • Don Quixote & the Windmills

8:00pm free with a toy donation

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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


BIKECRAFT 2011

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  • Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011
  • Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm
  • Location: Sandbox Studio, 420 NE 9th Ave Portland
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Purpose

Put the fun into holiday shopping with hand-made, locally-produced gifts, bicycle accessories, jewelry, art, fashion, paper goods, and more at this year’s BikeCraft event.

This year's event will have:

  • FREE ADMISSION!
  • Drawings for amazing gifts
  • Filmed by Bike lounge
  • Food, beer, and spirited entertainment
  • Lots of bike and street parking



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Dogcupy Portland

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  • Date: Saturdays
  • Time: 11:00am until 2:00pm
  • Location: Bank of America Hawthorne Branch 3757 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR
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Purpose

MAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT THE BIG BANKS!

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DOG, BORROW A DOG.

We are showing that the Occupation is more than just downtown.

This event is held in solidarity with the Occupy Portland movement.

We will be meeting at the corner of 37th and Hawthorne, and protesting in front of all 3 banks in the immediate area...

Although you are welcome to protest wherever is convenient and oppressive.

PLEASE BRING YOUR DOGS ON A LEASH

This is a creative way to involve all of our friends who still want to participate in the Occupy movement but don't necessarily want to go downtown.

This is a creative and PEACEFUL protest to draw positive media attention to our cause.

Who could talk shit about a bunch of God's most loyal creatures?

We also hope that this kind of event will inspire creativity within the ranks of the Occupiers.

So please join us. I'll bring the dog treats and you guys bring the creative dog signs...



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Hartmann: Money is free speech...how about tents?
So why is it -- going off the decision by the high court in Buckley versus Valeo -- that when political expression is given the "broadest possible protection," money is protected but tents are not? And why is it -- when recognizing the CREATIVE dynamic of free expression -- that again money is protected, but tents are not? The answer is fairly obvious: corporations have a lot of money and not a lot of tents. The ironic thing is that Occupy Wall Street is demonstrating -- in large part -- against these two court cases, against the idea that money is speech. So Supreme Court rulings that big green pieces of fabrics are NOT a form of free speech is just fine, just as long as the court is consistent and rules that the little green pieces of fabric are not speech either. But until that happens -- until the court treats all fabric in the same way -- then Occupy Wall Street needs to keep camping out. The message to the movement is simple: start building your tents out of stitched-together dollar bills.

Reoccupation

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Purpose

Join Occupy Portland as we march from the Salmon Springs Fountain to occupy another park!

Why? Because the grievances and injustices within our society have not been redressed. Because we have the right to peacefully assemble on public property to voice those grievances, and we’re not done! Because we stand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement across this entire country that has been pursued, persecuted and brutalized for exercising the very rights our country is supposed to defend! Because it’s about damn time!

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Bring your tents, your sleeping bags, and prepare yourself for a night of non-violent protest while we celebrate the reoccupation of another park with live music and a showing of the film Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse. Bring your own musical instruments, hula hoops, food for the potluck and positive attitudes!

We will be having a Reoccupation Open Forum starting at 2PM at Salmon Springs Fountain at the south end of Waterfront Park. THEN WE MARCH, starting at 3PM, to occupy another park! We have our committees, our working groups, and our experience from the previous occupation. We have a plan, we have sustainability, and we have security culture.

We just need you!

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Swarm the March

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Purpose

At 1:30PM meet to rally and get current with the latest Bike Swarm happenings, swarm rides at 2:00PM.

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Portland March In Solidarity With Defend The Egyptian Revolution

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  • Date: Today at 1:00pm until Sunday at 6:00am

Purpose

Rise up and march in solidarity with Egypt!

AGENDA

We will gather at the Waterfront on SW Salmon and Naito Parkway at 2:00pm. There may be another march concurrently happening.

There will be an open forum and announcements.

Please prepare signs.

Please bring a candle and a container to hold the wax (such as a dixie cup) which can also help as a wind blocker. There will be a candlelight vigil for those who have been affected by the violent attacks, directly and indirectly, but most importantly, to pay respect and tribute to the renegade fighters passed who were murdered by the junta military force.

The candlelight vigil will begin at 7pm at Pioneer Square. Please bring extras to share, if possible.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Defend the Egyptian Revolution

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Defend-the-Egyptian-Revolution/213838755356454

Urgent Message from Egypt

http://mosireen.org/?p=385

A Letter of Solidarity from Tahrir Square

http://zinelibrary.info/files/tahrir_to_OWS_read.pdf

International Day of Solidarity

http://en.nomiltrials.com/p/international-day-of-solidarity.html

Why Occupy in Solidarity

http://en.nomiltrials.com/2011/11/why-occupy-in-solidarity.html

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Foster-Powell/ Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Assembly

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  • Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011
  • Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: SEIU Labor Hall, 6401 SE Foster Rd.
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Purpose

SE Portland Neighborhood Assembly

The Occupy movement has created a moment for energy and activism. This meeting is a way for neighbors in SE Portland to come together to discuss issues in our lives and communities. We will work together as a group to take action on the issues that connect us, local and global. We invite neighborhood association representatives, Occupy activists, and all interested neighbors to join us. At this facilitated meeting, we’ll create proposals and decide on the next steps to draw on the energy of the Occupy movement and move our communities forward.

We welcome brochures and flyers on a wide range of topics for our information table.
Contact the Coordinator

Charles Seaton: aleph.charles@gmail.com (503) 467-8327

Website
http://www.opgo.org
Assembly Goals
  • Bring together people in SE, and provide a space for people to tell their stories.
  • To educate people about the Occupy movement.
  • To ask: What can Occupy take on at a local level?
  • To hear and make progress on proposals.
  • And to connect with people from neighborhood associations
At the assembly, we will
  • Meet with neighbors, Occupy members, and people from your neighborhood associations.
  • Tell your story, and listen to other people’s stories.
  • Learn about the Occupy movement.
  • Discuss what Occupy can do in your neighborhood.
  • Listen to and help make plans.
Assembly Structure

Alternating between small group with large groups, report outs to large groups.

Agenda
  1. (Brief) What is Occupy Pdx, Examples, why it is we are here, what we want to accomplish
  2. Break out groups: hearing our experiences, nhood issues to resolve, identification of topics of action
  3. Large group: Report Out, Identify Shared Areas of interest for next Steps
  4. Small Group with new topics identified by earlier Process
  5. Report out in large Group: Wrap-Up & Next steps
About the convening group

Occupy Portland Grassroots Organizing is an evolving group of individuals working to help build communication, organizing, and interdependence in our local neighborhoods and in the whole 99%, in order to transform the community's needs, concerns, hopes and resilience into locally-based solutions.

Our SE organizing subgroup can be reached or joined at

http://tinyurl.com/se-occupypdx

This event particularly invites folks living in the Foster-Powell and Mt Scott-Arleta neighborhoods (50th to 82nd, Powell to Woodstock) to come out and talk about economic and social issues in their neighborhood, and how collective action and the Occupy Portland movement can work to address those issues. Folks from nearby neighborhoods are also welcome.

Holiday Bazaar at Beaverton's Shilo Inn!!

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  • Date: Thursday at 3:00pm until Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:00pm

Purpose

Join us for Shilo Inn's first ever Holiday Bazaar.

Dozens of vendors from the metro area will showcase their handmade clothing items, crafts, high end jewelry, Hat makers, photography, and more!

It's a great way to get a jump start on you Christmas list, while supporting local artisans and local soloprenuers.

Thursday and Friday are our Happy Hour Bazaar. from 3-7pm Come on in, have a cocktail and shop at the same time!!

Saturday and Sunday are 11am-3pm....Join us for Brunch and peruse the tables for that unique item.

This season more than ever it's important to shop local, and proceeds go to the Beaverton Education Foundation!

Come enjoy the spirit of the season at The SW Shilo Inn first ever Holiday Bazaar!!

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Occupier and Non-Occupier Town Hall

  • Date: Saturday, December 3
  • Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
  • Location: First Unitarian Church 1011 Southwest 13th Avenue Portland, OR 
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Purpose

Invitation to Occupy Portland Town Hall

“Is there life after eviction?”

Occupy Portland’s Vision & Strategy Committee invites you and members of your communities to join us for conversation, food, and networking. We want to provide a friendly setting for dialogue, to explore the varied views people have of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Portland. As more and more camps are being dismantled, many wonder what might be next. We invite campers, supporters, curious bystanders, skeptics—from a wide range of our communities—arts, education, faith, business, services, advocacy groups, labor, government, etc.--to join us to pause and reflect on what we think OWS and OP have accomplished, and where the movement might be headed.

Our hope is to follow this Town Hall with many more open discussions, to sustain the dialogue that has been started and to help shape of the movement’s future.

5:30 PM to 8:00 PM – Food & Beverages will start the evening

Trudy Cooper, Professional Facilitator specializing in Organizational Development, Mediation, Strategic Planning and Diversity Education will lead the large and small group dialogue and one to one informal conversation.

RSVP
Space is limited, please RSVP by Friday, December 2nd, 2011 to Owen Sanders, Ph. #503.459.6391 or email: owensanders@gmail.com

We look forward to this opportunity to continue the conversation with you and others in our community!

Questions may include:

  • What has worked?
  • What is unique about OWS?
  • What is unique about OP?
  • How will the current displacement of the camp affect OP?

Those in attendance will be occupiers, supporters, and any other interested or curious people who would like to focus on these questions to continue our work, build on our strengths, and include more people from more of Portland.

Free, with the time divided between:

  • facilitated large group discussion
  • small group discussions,
  • one to one informal conversation with food and drink available, and with
  • access to information from various actions and projects now underway.



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Sunday

Citizens Against the National Defense Authorization Act

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  • Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011
  • Time: 10:00am until 4:00pm
  • Location: Portland Waterfront
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Purpose

PLEASE READ ALL, YOUR RIGHTS IN URGENT JEOPARDY

WE THE PEOPLE
Must protect our constitutional rights which are now in jeopardy by an act that would effectively declare the government's war on its people.
We must peaceably assemble and protest against the "Defense Authorization Bill" which will effectively turn our nation into a battlefield.
WE MUST ACT TO STOP THIS -- NOW!
AGENDA PLAN
  • Make your posters and signs to oppose the NDAA.
  • We will gather at the fountain and have an announcement and open forum speaking at the Waterfront on SW Salmon and SW Naito Parkway.
  • 11:00am we will be marching around downtown to protest.
Please join us for this very important event
The ACLU’s Washington legislative office explains

"In support of this harmful bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained that the bill will 'basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield' and people can be imprisoned without charge or trial 'American citizen or not.' Another supporter, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) also declared that the bill is needed because 'America is part of the battlefield.' "

On Monday, the Senate defeated the Udall amendment to this bill and passed 37-61. If passed as written, it would allow our government and military to arrest ANYONE ANYWHERE, and detain them indefinitely without charges or trial or any form of due process, defense or justice...purely on "suspicion of terrorism."

This bill would effectively strip our right of "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," our constitutional right.

HOW YOU CAN HELP (RIGHT NOW):

Call & email your Senators-- RIGHT NOW!

List of U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 1st Session on Udall

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00210

OREGON
Jeff Merkley (D - OR) Class II
313 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3753

Web Form: www.merkley.senate.gov/contact/

Ron Wyden (D - OR) Class III
223 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5244

Web Form: www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/

ALL OTHER STATES

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
National Defense Authorization Bill S.1867

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540ih.pdf

Department of Defense Authorization Bill Article on Huffington

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/detainee-policy-senate-defense-authorization_n_1119296.html

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/senate-votes-to-let-military-detain-americans-indefinitely_n_1119473.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#undefined

Previous ACLU Letter of Opposal on 1031 and 1032 of NDAA

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3413

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Occu-Mart: Part of Boycott Black Friday

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  • Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011
  • Time: 12:30pm until 3:30pm
  • Location: Walmart 4200 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97266
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Purpose

BUY 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 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.

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

Sunday, December 4, 2011 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.

We'll do a MIC CHECK (I'll be happy to do it).

If we can have people through out the store so our message is heard it would be more effective.

In solidarity ♥

Ejiria Walker

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Faciltation Workshop to improve group process!

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  • Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011
  • Time: 2:00pm until 6:00pm
  • Location: Laughing Horse Book and Film Collective 12 NE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97232
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Purpose

Interested in creating a rockin' group process?
Need some tools and strategies to make meetings more fulfilling?

Come to the *Facilitation Workshop* by FACILITRON -- part of the Rising Tide monthly workshop series -- Sunday, December 4th, 2-6pm Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave.

Snacks provided!

This will be a hands-on, participatory workshop on how to facilitate a good group process. There are too many meetings in the world that are draining, unfocused and disempowering. Bad meeting dynamics are not conducive to inspired collective action -- and inspired collective action is what we want! There are lots of things you can do before, during, and after meetings to help your group process run smoothly, be effective, use time well, and build solid relationships.

In this workshop we will discuss the role of the facilitator, talk about what this role is and what it's not, and share some facilitation tools that can help foster effective, efficient and energizing meetings. We'll be putting facilitation strategies into practice, so come ready to participate! All experience levels welcome.

Invite friends!

FACILITRON is a small group of facilitators participating in a year-long program called Portland Facilitation Lab, an intensive training and practice in group facilitation. Members of FACILITRON are involved in community disaster preparedness, healing arts, media, design, grassroots organizing, direct action and movement-building. Through this training, they hope to share their skills as well as draw from the knowledge of the group

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Holiday Bazaar at Beaverton's Shilo Inn!!

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  • Date: Thursday at 3:00pm until Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:00pm

Purpose

Join us for Shilo Inn's first ever Holiday Bazaar.

Dozens of vendors from the metro area will showcase their handmade clothing items, crafts, high end jewelry, Hat makers, photography, and more!

It's a great way to get a jump start on you Christmas list, while supporting local artisans and local soloprenuers.

Thursday and Friday are our Happy Hour Bazaar. from 3-7pm Come on in, have a cocktail and shop at the same time!!

Saturday and Sunday are 11am-3pm....Join us for Brunch and peruse the tables for that unique item.

This season more than ever it's important to shop local, and proceeds go to the Beaverton Education Foundation!

Come enjoy the spirit of the season at The SW Shilo Inn first ever Holiday Bazaar!!

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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

AC meeting today at 5:30pm PSU Smith Center cafeteria

Neighborhood Assembly Facilitator Training

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  • Date: Mon, December 5, 2011
  • Time: 9:30am – 11am
  • Location: Afscme Building on 60th and E Burnside in the library
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Purpose

In our mission to kick-start some Neighborhood Assemblies so that all our communities can feel better represented in the movement.

Outreach Committee brings to you a Facilitator Training that will be very useful in having well trained participants helping the flow of communication.

All are welcome!

Other details
See Also: Neighborhood Assembly

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PLEASE POST THIS TYPE OF INFO TO THE OCCUPY PORTLAND CALENDAR!!!

Occupy Eugene Community Conversation

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  • Date: Monday, December 5, 2011
  • Time: 7:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: Harris Hall 125 East 8th Ave , Eugene, OR
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Purpose

You are warmly invited to an Occupy Eugene community conversation about these questions:

  • How can we use Occupy Eugene as a springboard for community solutions?
  • What do the Occupiers have to teach us about resilience, survival, and developing supportive relationship networks?
  • What is a possible win-win outcome for Occupy Eugene and the city?
  • What needs to happen before the Dec. 15 deadline for extending the exception to the camping ordinance?

We want to include a diversity of perspectives on these questions, especially yours. The first facilitated discussion that Occupy Eugene had with the City Manager and Chief of Police brought out 100% agreement on the goal of win-win solutions. Let's build on that. This conversation will be facilitated by Chip Coker of Community Mediation Services.

If you can't be there in person, it will be streamed live over PeaceDay.tv

We now have a splendid opportunity to bring our citizens' best wisdom forth, and to build a democratic consensus for living together in harmony. Many of us have shared that we hope Eugene will be a role model for our nation. I am very confident that if we do this we will light up the world.

A second community conversation is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 12, at the same time and place. That conversation may be rescheduled if public comment would be more fruitful at the city council meeting on the same evening. If held, the conversation will focus on the internal strengths and weaknesses of Occupy Eugene, as well as the external opportunities for change and threats to the movement.

OE Community Conversations Committee (soon to be morphed into an existing or new committee) is currently a team of people representing Occupy Eugene, Eugene City of Peace, CALC, Beyond War, WAND, and Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network/Jobs with Justice.

We meet every Tuesday at 3:30 PM in the dome.

Contact person
David Hazen, innercom [at] peak.org, 541-520-6621



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Tuesday

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.


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.

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


Wednesday

Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee Meeting

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Purpose

See: Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee

Other details
Occupy Portland's Labor Outreach Committee sub-committee tasked with working on campaign and organizing ideas for a Peoples’ Assembly and Peoples’ Budget.

See Also
Raw notes from previous meeting


Media Response Team Meeting

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  • Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
  • Time: 6:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: Lucky Lab 915 se Hawthorne Portland
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Purpose

Meet others on the team and discuss potential projects for the group to work on.

If you haven't yet, the chapter on Free Speech in Howard Zinn's Declarations of Independence is a highly recommended read. I'm also trying to create a sort of "directory" of skills and interests so that people with a particular project in mind can find someone in the group who can help them. If we can become resources for each other, we'll be able to get a lot more done.

P.S. if you haven't friended me yet, please do so I can send you invites to the meetings.

http://www.facebook.com/rodenz

Also, please check the docs section of our group FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/mediaresponseteam/

The minutes for the last meeting as well as our first trial project are posted there. If you want to receive minutes and updates from me, please message me your e-mail address and I'll put you on the mailing list.

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Occupy Salem Educational Forum

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  • Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011
  • Time: 7pm
  • Location: Salem Public Library 585 Liberty St SE Salem, Oregon
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Purpose

Occupy Salem Oregon invites all people who consider themselves to be part of the Occupy movement, and all people who are interested in finding out about the movement, to attend an educational forum about where Occupy is heading next.

Brief presentations will cover both the national movement and the plans underway here in Salem. Open discussion will follow.

At the end of the meeting, opportunity will be provided to sign up for various Occupy Salem committees to work on different issues.

The meeting will be held Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Anderson Room of the Salem Public Library.

If you are considering getting involved with Occupy Salem, or are just interested in what’s going on, this is your chance to get a “taste of Occupy.”

Bring your friends and spread the word.



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Thursday

AC meeting today at 5:30pm PSU Smith Center cafeteria

Outreach Weekly Organizer Training

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Purpose

We will run a weekly training after the Outreach meeting.

We will train on many different aspects of grassroots organizing including: canvassing, phone banking, campaign power mapping, running effective meetings, public speaking, Civil Disobedience, etc.

Suggest a topic we can agree on and we WILL find an educator to train us.

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occupyportlandstreetteam@gmail.com

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PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL

  • Date: Thursday, December 8
  • Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Location: Q-Center 4115 N Mississippi Avenue Portland, Oregon 97217 
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Purpose

Organizers:

  • Awc Portland
  • City of Portland - Office of Equity and Human Rights
  • African Women’s Coalition & Black Women for Peace
  • PSU – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies


The untold story of the everyday women who brought a warring nation to its senses…armed only with the courage of their convictions.

A HUMAN RIGHTS FILM AND DIALOGUE EVENT


Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a Gene Reticker and Abigail Disney film, stars recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, Leymah Gbowee, and chronicles the remarkable story of thousands of Liberian women — ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim — who came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the Presidential Palace.

Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the country’s civil war. A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverance of the women of Liberia. Inspiring, uplifting, and most of all motivating, it is a compelling testimony of how grassroots activism can alter the history of nations.

After the film, we will engage in a community dialogue and use it as a space where we seek to understand, find commonalities, and share our experiences. Please join us!

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Friday

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.


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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.  Bill of Rights

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