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== Labor Solidarity March - March Together with Occupy Portland!! ==
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* Date '''Wednesday October 26, 2011'''
* Time '''5:00pm - 8:00pm'''
* Location [[Director Park]], 815 SW Park, between SW Yamhill & Taylor on Park Ave, downtown Portland.
* Invite Page: [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249047295143069 LABOR COMMUNITY MARCH - Solidarity with Occupy Portland!]
 
;Flyer: [http://www.oregonafscme.com/docs/OccupyPdx1026%2Epdf Occupy Portland Labor March]
 
=== Directions/Instructions ===
Assemble at Director Park at 5 p.m. and at 6 p.m we will march downtown in a show of solidarity.<br />We will march past the Occupation at [[Chapman Square]] and end at [[Pioneer Courthouse Square]].
 
Organized labor is coming together to support the Occupy Portland movement. [[Oregon AFSCME]] leadership encourages your participation as we partner with the Oregon AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice and others.
 
Occupy Portland is made up of real Americans pulling together to hold big banks and multinational corporations accountable for the financial crisis we all face.
 
Looking for more background information to better understand the ‘Occupy’ movement?
;Please visit their webpage
[http://occupypdx.org/2011/10/07/day2-occupy-portland/ Occupy Portland in peaceful solidarity with OWS]
 
Remind everyone that the 99% are not just the representatives standing our ground in parks and empty lots across Oregon and the nation. Join the [[Oregon AFL-CIO]], [[AFSCME]], Laborers', and more unions for sure to come. The [[WE ARE OREGON]] drum core will also be there to put a beat to our steps!
 
LABOR won't stand for corporatization of our communities - not on Wall Street and not in the City of Portland! GOOD jobs, NOT CUTS!
 
 
 
== Free concert "Pink Martini" and This Land is Our Land Super Rally ==
* Date '''Friday, October 28'''
* Time '''11:30am - 1:30pm'''
* Location '''Pioneer Courthouse Square''' Located in the heart of downtown Portland, Pioneer Courthouse Square is affectionately known as the City's "living room." With more than 26,000 people passing by the Square each day and over 300 events a year, it really is the place to be in PDX!
* Invite Page: [https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138990016201472 Facebook Event Page]
* Sponsor page: [http://www.myspace.com/pinkmartinionmyspace Pink Martini]
=== Sponsor ===
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: PINK MARTINI PRESENTS ‘THIS LAND IS OUR LAND'
: A FREE CONCERT/SUPER RALLY & COMMUNITY SING-A-LONG IN SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPY WALL STREET/OCCUPY PORTLAND MOVEMENTS
: FRIDAY OCTOBER 28—[[Pioneer Courthouse Square|PIONEER COURTHOUSE SQUARE]]
 
=== Super Rally Info ===
PORTLAND, OR—In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Portland movements, Pink Martini will present ‘This Land Is Our Land’—a free concert / super-rally & community sing-a-long extravaganza in Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, October 28, 12noon-1:30pm with the purpose of providing a thinking person's guide to the Occupy Wall Street / Occupy Portland movements.
 
The rally will open with a set of songs performed by Storm Large and Pink Martini and members of the Oregon Symphony, followed by a community sing-a-long with songs like "This Land is Your Land" and "Home on the Range". Interspersed throughout will be short and inspiring speeches by political, labor and religious leaders, including:
 
=== Speakers ===
* Rabbi Emanuel Rose, Rabbi Emeritus Congregation [[Temple Beth Israel]]
* The Very Reverend Bill Lupfer of [[Trinity Episcopal Cathedral]],
* The Reverend Bill Sinkford of the [[First Unitarian Church]]
* The Reverend Lynne Smouse López of [[Ainsworth United Church of Christ]]
* Imam Mikal Shabazz
* Congressman [[Earl Blumenauer]]
* President Tom Chamberlain of [[Oregon AFL-CIO]]
* Representatives from [[Occupy Portland]]
* Community activist and author Kathleen Saadat
 
=== Purpose ===
‘This Land is Our Land’ rally will be a fun and festive gathering which articulates support for Occupy Portland / Occupy Portland and inspires people to get involved in a peaceful movement for social and economic justice.
 
=== About Pink Martini ===
“This is the biggest social and economic justice movement of our times” says [[Pink Martini]] bandleader Thomas Lauderdale. “When the 400 wealthiest Americans have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans, something’s wrong. When the top 1% of Americans possess more wealth than the entire bottom 90%, something’s wrong. Through this concert and rally, we hope to bring intelligent and thoughtful dialogue to the table and in the process, gather wider and broader support for this movement.”
 
=== Words about Occupy ===
“The Occupy movement is my first experience of witnessing a genuine American uprising,” says Storm Large. “One without guns, threats of violence,or even shouting down people who don't agree. An uprising without discrimination or dull-eyed, hateful separatist decrees. It is an articulate conversation, as opposed to the B.S. bumper sticker soundbites our own government can't seem to stop spewing. Instead of the typical "Us vs. Them" mentality or schoolyard bullying tactics, the rag tag group in Zuccotti Park have inspired the World with their cool headed dedication to getting answers and finding solutions. I am honored to support this movement, and lend my small voice to the huge and growing chorus of real democracy being born, like a new star taking shape.”
 
Says community activist and author Kathleen Saadat, "We can use this opportunity to explore and express ideas and formulate goals that, if articulated, championed and insisted upon, will make life better for 99% of the population. We support and want to gain attention for Occupy Portland, get people out of their offices to sing and dance and hopefully talk with one another about what this movement might mean for all of us.”
 
=== Summary ===
What: ‘This Land Is Our Land’—a free concert / super-rally & community sing-a-long extravaganza
 
Where: Pioneer Courthouse Square – Downtown Portand
 
When: Friday, October 28, 12noon-1:30pm
 
 
== National Day of Action against the Private Prison Industry ==
* Date '''Saturday, October 29th'''
* Time '''9:45am'''
* Location '''3782 SE Hawthorne's Wells Fargo Bank'''
 
== Rally Purpose ==
Tell Wells Fargo to dump GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America’s prison stock and invest in humanity.
ENLACE organizing this
 
 
 
== International Occupy March  ==
* Date '''Saturday, October 29th, 2011'''
* Time '''Noon'''
* Location '''Main st @ Occupy PDX'''
 
=== Purpose ===
This is the night before the G20 leaders Summit. This will be one of our regular Saturday marches, but in solidarity with other marches happening that day worldwide.  This is a march against the greed of wall street, and in support of values of the 99%
 
=== Goal ===
Specific goals as stated by Adbusters: "let’s the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let’s send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that’s sloshing around the global casino each day – enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world."
 
=== Q&A ===
*Would you like to help organize this march?
This march will take some organizing and coordinating with other committees (Media, Peace and Safety, Police Liasons, Outreach...we will need to print fliers and such). Please contact OccupyPDX at actioncommitteepdx@googlegroups.com
We'd love your help! This should be a big event.
 
=== BOA BONUS ===
Bank of America will be holding "Mortgage Seminars" Thursday through Saturday at the Convention Center. This will be included in the route and some amount of time will be spent protesting at that location before moving on.
MORE INFO TO COME...
 
 
 
== MICHAEL MOORE WILL BE COMING TO OCCUPY PORTLAND!!! ==
* Date '''HALLOWEEN'''
* Location ''' Chapman and Lownsdale Squares ~ Occupy PDX Camp'''
* Time '''unknown'''
 
=== Additional Information ===
We have received word that Michael Moore will be doing a book signing at Powell's Books sometime in the early afternoon and will be visiting the Occupy camp afterward. Anyone with more info, please feel free to add.
 
 
 
== Zombie March ==
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* Date '''Monday October 31st, 2011'''
* Time '''11:30am - 5pm'''
* Location '''Chapman Square @ SW Main/4th Downtown Portland'''
 
=== Purpose ===
The Anti-Coal Zombie March is organized by Rising Tide to highlight the banks that fund coal mining (Bank of America, Wells Fargo...).  This easily meshes with OP intentions.
 
=== Co-Sponsor ===
Rising Tide is an international, all-volunteer, grassroots network of groups and individuals who organize locally, promote community-based solutions to the climate crisis and take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change. Contact us at info@portlandrisingtide.org.
 
=== Event Info ===
This is going to be an awesome event for anyone and everyone. Its a great chance to get your ZOMBIE on!! There will be face painters, tombstone making and lots of other great stuff going on. Bring a friend and have fun!
 
=== About ===
The Rumor has been spreading… Pained groans have been heard on the wind. The Tide of undead is Rising! Sightings have been made all around.
Portland of members of the Rising Tide Zombie Army Against Coal. Most have been seen lurking nearby infamous coal financiers such as Bank of America ATMs and branch locations. Some witnesses have even heard a few mumble “Coooaall” while others have found an oily black sludge smeared in hand prints along walls and windows of banks associated with the dirty money business of coal.
 
From all the research we could trudge up on this odd topic, we have
discovered a few crucial things.
 
1) The Zombies were twisted into their current form of un-life by the
toxic side effects of coal (including proposals for coal export terminals in the Northwest), and a surprising side effect of climate
change.
 
2) The mass of them will be raised during the day of all Hallows eve. ie
Halloween Monday, October 31st at 3pm
 
3) They’ve organised! Join Rising Tide Zombie Army Against Coal at Chapman Square in
Downtown Portland (between 3rd & 4th & Madison & Main) at 3pm.
 
4) The living impaired have called for help from the living to join them
in the fight against dirty coal business in Portland. To show solidarity with the un-dead and their fight to stop coal export terminals in the Northwest please dress like a zombie.
 
 
 
== National Break up with your Bank day/ Bank Transfer Day, Guy Fox Day ==
* Date '''Saturday November 5th, 2011'''
 
=== Purpose ===
Vote with your dollar.  Get your money out of wall street banks and back into your community by moving your money to a local credit union.  Save money by avoiding the new debit card fees banks are forcing on consumers even though the banks continue to rake in record profits.
 
 
 
== Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline March and Documentary Film ==
* Date '''Sunday, November 6th, 2011
 
The action will replicate DC's "Hands Around The White House". Our local version on Sunday, November 6th, would be "Hands Around The Federal Building" and a march to a nearby theater for a free viewing of the new documentary, Pipe Dreams. This is a film on the Keystone XL by Leslie Iwerks and is short-listed for an Academy Award nomination.
 
=== Purpose ===
The Tar Sands/ Keystone XL pipeline is one of the biggest looming disastesr in North America, but most people have never heard of it. 
Please watch this [http://act.350.org/cms/thanks/november6?akid=1353.158564.RlopVU&rd=1&t=3 90 sec. video] and this
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QqsLsMroM 4 minute video] by Josh Fox, Academy Award nominated producer of Gasland.
 
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