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End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil Join us!

Well done article that. I'll make sure to use it wisley.

Monday

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

Thank You Portland! OP Oregon Food Bank Food-Drive

• Date: Wednesday at 8:00am until Wednesday,​ December 21, 2011 at 7:00pm
• Time: 8am - 7pm
• Location: There are four Portland locations:

* Anna Bananas, 8716 N Lombard St  
* TriLibrium​, 2100 NE Broadway Street, Suite 205 
* Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave 
* Purest Café 115 SW Ash Street, Suite 100 

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Purpose

Occupy Portland would like to thank the greater Portland community for all of the support provided to the occupation by giving back. We are conducting a one-week food drive for the Oregon Food Bank. Please drop off your non-perishable food items at any one of the above locations between Dec. 14-21!

Thank you for your support for the OFB!

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

• Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
• Time: 12pm – 2pm
• Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

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See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil

Tis' the Season for Letter Writing!

• Date: Monday, December 19, 2011
• Time: 2:00pm until 4:00pm
• Location: Portland State Office Bldg, Suite 1D, 800 SE Oregon, near Holladay Park Max Stop, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Write a letter to the Editor, the Mayor, Obama, Your Congress Person, Santa, or even your friends!

Support the US Post office and exercise your civic duties with pen & paper!

We'll offer Tea, snacks, stamps, and "old school" letter writing supplies and have volunteers representing a variety of causes.

Join us for festive & fun political action!

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Tuesday

Thank You Portland! OP Oregon Food Bank Food-Drive

• Date: Wednesday at 8:00am until Wednesday,​ December 21, 2011 at 7:00pm
• Time: 8am - 7pm
• Location: There are four Portland locations:

* Anna Bananas, 8716 N Lombard St  
* TriLibrium​, 2100 NE Broadway Street, Suite 205 
* Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave 
* Purest Café 115 SW Ash Street, Suite 100 

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Purpose

Occupy Portland would like to thank the greater Portland community for all of the support provided to the occupation by giving back. We are conducting a one-week food drive for the Oregon Food Bank. Please drop off your non-perishable food items at any one of the above locations between Dec. 14-21!

Thank you for your support for the OFB!

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

• Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
• Time: 12pm – 2pm
• Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil

Liberation from Domination Culture - Workshop and Practice Group in Compassionate Communication

• Date: See details for 3 different groups below

• Location: See locations for 3 different groups below
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Purpose

These are 8 week workshops and groups in Compassionate Communication that meet weekly, and repeat every 8 weeks. To meet needs for learning, aliveness, continuity, safety and trust, the groups close when we have sufficient enrollment, or after being open for two weeks. For more details, or if you would like to attend, please email Upgeya (spirit[at]lovebeing[dot]org), so that I can better handle logistics for the class and have materials available for you.

[please note: a computer glitch recently lost me quite a few e-mails from my address book. If you have inquired about these groups in the last year and have not received an e-mail from me recently, please send me another request to be on my address list, at the address noted just above - Upgeya]

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We now have three groups:

• Tuesdays, 1pm – 3:30pm
• Thursdays, 6:30pm – 9pm
• Saturdays, 3pm – 5:30pm (women only)

——————————– Advanced Group

• Date: January 8, 2013 – February 26, 2013
• Time: Tuesdays, 1-3:30pm
• Place: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1131 SE Oak St., Portland
• Room: Hawthorne Room (entrance off of South side of building, adjacent to Oak St.)
• Facilitator: Upgeya Pew

——————————– Evening Group

• Date: January 10, 2013 – February 28, 2013
• Time: Thursdays, 6:30pm-9pm
• Place: Maple Mallory Housing Community, 3800 NE Mallory Ave., Portland, OR (bus #6, #33)
• Room: The multipurpose room adjacent to offices & playground
• Facilitator: Upgeya Pew

——————————– Women’s Group

• Date: January 12, 2013 – March 2, 2013
• Time: Saturdays, 3-5:30pm
• Place: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1131 SE Oak St., Portland
• Room: Hawthorne Room (entrance off of North side of building, from inner courtyard)
• Facilitator: Upgeya Pew

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To meet needs for learning, aliveness, continuity, safety and trust, the groups close when we have sufficient enrollment, or after being open for two weeks. For more details, or if you would like to attend, please email Upgeya (spirit[at]lovebeing[dot]org), so that I can better handle logistics for the class and have materials available for you.

Compassionate Communication (aka Nonviolent Communication or NVC) is based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg and the Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org).

The human soul hungers for the deep nourishment of understanding, connection and self-expression. And yet, most of us have been trained from birth to compare, judge, diagnose, lie, abdicate responsibility, blame, compete, control and demand. The domination system has outposts in our heads. Thinking and communicating in the above way is costly and ineffective, as it alienates us from our natural compassion and each other; conditions us into a subtle self-hatred that pervades our culture; has us deny our needs and our power to serve life; re-enforces our powerlessness and victimization; and often leads to misunderstanding, unnecessary conflict, and violence.

Why have we been trained in this way? Because the domination system works when people are kept ignorant, disconnected from our power, divided, at each others throats – compliant producer/consumer debt slaves in times of peace, and obedient cannon fodder in times of war.

Compassionate Communication (NVC) offers an alternative. One in which we can transform the judgment and criticism, the negative self talk, the denial of responsibility, and the attitude of demand that keeps us powerless and separate from yummy connection with others. An alternative in which we can:

♥ Heal the trauma and pain that keeps us stuck

♥ Develop more perspective on what triggers us emotionally, improving skills for responding rather than reacting when in conflict, using conflict to get closer to people

♥ Clarify what’s underneath our negative self-talk, helping us transform it into self-love

♥ Tell our truth in a way that is both compassionate and honest

♥ Increase our ability to build relationships based on compassion and mutual understanding

♥ Reclaim our power to be fully alive and responsible

♥ Create a world where we care for and respect one another, celebrating our differences

♥ Own the beautiful and sacred life energy that animates us.

NVC guides us in reframing how we hear others, how we express ourselves, and how we connect with ourselves. Instead of habitual, automatic reactions, our thinking, listening and speaking becomes firmly based in an awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, needing and wanting. Using NVC, we focus the light of consciousness in these 4 areas to transform our judgment into compassion, discern our real responsibilities, reveal our humanity, connect our hearts, and celebrate our aliveness.

When this work is taken on sincerely and diligently, it can help us remember the “subtle, sneaky, important reason” we were born a human being – the unique gift to life that each of us is. It can help us connect with the divine energy that is our source. Powerful people can’t be bossed around. We don’t give away our power through compliance.

About me (Upgeya Pew): Having encountered the invisible repression of my own conditioning, and the nature of the culture doing that conditioning, during my involvement with the social movements of the 60’s, I’ve spent the last 40 years learning and freeing myself, and developing my capacity for understanding, awareness and love.

The last decade or so of those years I’ve been learning and teaching Compassionate Communication (NVC), because it’s fun – and the most powerful process I’ve discovered for transforming what I call “domination culture” into “partnership culture”. I’ve attended two 10-day residential intensives in NVC by the Center for Nonviolent Communication and Marshall Rosenberg, the developer of NVC, as well as many other workshops and trainings. My most powerful learning, however, has come by doing – by facilitating NVC trainings and practice groups for the last 10 or so years.

My passion is in creating partnership culture through transformation in consciousness.

Liam: "I recommend this workshop for anyone that plans on speaking with anyone else in the future. Really Good Stuff!"

For more details, email: spirit [at] lovebeing [dot] org

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Spokes Council

• 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

• 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

Thank You Portland! OP Oregon Food Bank Food-Drive

• Date: Wednesday at 8:00am until Wednesday,​ December 21, 2011 at 7:00pm
• Time: 8am - 7pm
• Location: There are four Portland locations:

* Anna Bananas, 8716 N Lombard St  
* TriLibrium​, 2100 NE Broadway Street, Suite 205 
* Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th Ave 
* Purest Café 115 SW Ash Street, Suite 100 

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Purpose

Occupy Portland would like to thank the greater Portland community for all of the support provided to the occupation by giving back. We are conducting a one-week food drive for the Oregon Food Bank. Please drop off your non-perishable food items at any one of the above locations between Dec. 14-21!

Thank you for your support for the OFB!

Global Occupy Movement Syncronized OM Chant

• Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
• Time: 12:00pm until 12:30pm

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Purpose

ALL OVER THE WORLD

THE IDEA IS TO CREATE A POSITIVE ENERGY FIELD FOR THE OCCUPY MOVEMENTS WORLD WIDE AT THE SAME TIME FROM YOUR HOME..OFFICE..WHERE EVER YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE TIME..

Go to the link below to find out how 12 NOON translates in your area/country.

EX: 12noon Pacific Time is 3PM Eastern Time in the U.S.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

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Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

• Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
• Time: 12pm – 2pm
• Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil

Winter Solstice Interfaith Occupiers' Peace-In

• Date: Wednesday, Dec. 21
• Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m.
• Location: In front of the Portland City Hall, east entrance (1221 SW 4th Ave)
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Purpose

The Interfaith Guild of Chaplains is holding a little time and space on this Winter Solstice to celebrate the returning of the light in this shortest day of the year, with music, songs and lighting of the solstice light, bringing in an energy of peace, tranquility and blessings. We are holding an additional Peace-In to support the 24/7 City Hall Occupy Vigil in solidarity.

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The Interfaith Guild of Chaplains

Occupy Portland Healthcare Committee Meeting

We are a group that believes healthcare is a human right!! We will be brainstorming and focussing on direct actions for a Universal Single Payer Healthcare system. We believe Oregon has a good chance in being the next state after Vermont to legislate a Universal Healthcare system. We will also be working with other organizations in organizing state-wide actions and education. Healthcare for all!!

• Where: PSU Smith Center
  
• When: Wednesday December 21st at 6pm
  

Okay I'm coninvced. Let's put it to action.

Friday

EfRytIng DRiVe (a night of 1000 blankets) FREE SHOW

• Date: Friday, December 23, 2011
• Time: 8:00pm until 2:00am
• Location: Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

the EfRytIng DRiVe

...a niGht of

1ooO blANKEts!

FREE SHOW

On any given night there are at least 2000 people sleeping on the streets of Downtown Portland. These people have little prospects for bettering their individual situations. High unemployment rates, mental health cuts, and cuts in the social services agency budgets assure that this will be the most populated the sidewalks have been in the history of Portland...

While we are all concerned and sympathetic regarding the situation on our streets, many citizens feel as if they dont know how to help. We are offering a opportunity to make an enormous difference in someones life with minimal impact on your own. All we need is anything that you can bear to part with. If you have ever been cold then you can appreciate what a difference something as simple as a pair of sweatpants can make. Consider the simple joy that a blanket or a warm coat can make... now imagine the healing power of 1000 blankets? That is our goal: to raise as much usable winter wear as we can and to use blankets as our measuring stick.

THIS IS NOT AN EVENT TO GATHER GOODS FOR THE OCCUPATION

The people we are trying to reach are known as the "hidden homeless" because they are not out in view of the public, this demographic is made up largely of complete family units sleeping in cars or shelters.

Should a person involved with the Occupation find himself/herself in need of gear, he/she will have to comply with whatever conditions the Downtown Chapel places on all of the people they serve...

SO... we will use our proven formula

rappers+DJs+cool people +cool business = problems solving

I will bring you a kickass night of hiphop FOR FREE!

And you bring me efryting you got...

Hats, gloves, coats, scarfs, earmuffs, leggings, hoodies, socks, sleeping bags, and of course blankets.

Everything that we raise will be donated to and redistributed by The Downtown Chapel.

This is an excerpt I took from their mission statement:

"Dedicated to serving our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness, our parish's Community Programs are dynamic expressions of our faith in action. Whether someone is in need of food, clothing, hygiene, bus tickets, or just a friend, that person is treated with the respect and dignity that they deserve. Our focus on hospitality allows us to focus on each person, rather than just the need of that person, and begin to walk with them towards positive transitions and engagement in community."

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Spokes Council

• 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

Dogcupy Portland

• 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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Sunday

Kudos to you! I hadn't thuohgt of that!

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