Occupy Portland Events

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PLEASE NOTE: Not all the events listed below originate with Occupy Portland. They 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.

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Current Events

Occupy Portland Protest the Federal Reserve!

• Date: Monday, November 7, 2011
• Time: 10:00am - 6:30pm
• Location: Federal Reserve Bank 1500 Southwest 1st Avenue # 100, Portland, OR 97201
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Purpose

OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT IS NOT LIMITED TO CHAPMAN PARK!

Some of us are taking our right to peaceable assembly to the steps of the Federal Reserve Bank 1500 Southwest 1st Avenue # 100, Portland, OR 97201.

We will be showing Solidarity with Wall Street starting at 10am Monday morning 11/7 and hopefully will continue throughout the week during business hours. This is a peaceful show of solidarity. Bring signs. :) We encourage research of The Federal Reserve which will help us to reason with the public at those locations about why we want to end the FED. We have some fliers we will be handing out. We will try to maintain a continual presence at this buildings during business hours throughout the week so come down when you can. Many will return to the Occupy site at night but what you do is your choice.

Occupy Everywhere!

Join us. Please just do it peacefully :)

Also, get to know your local federal reserve Federal Reserve

Article : Rolling Stone

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Occupy Bagdad: Comedy Fundraiser

• Date: Tue, November 8, 2011
• Time: Doors 6 PM
• Silent Auction 6:30 PM
• Comedy Show 8 PM
• Movie 10 PM
• Location: Bagdad Theater 3702 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd Portland
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Purpose

The evening of Tuesday, November 8, a fundraiser called “Occupy Bagdad” will be hosted at Hawthorne’s Bagdad Theatre on behalf of Occupy Portland.

• Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the information booth of Occupy Portland or buy your Tickets here.

Silent Auction: 6pm
Silent auction needs help! We need interesting donations to be bid upon by our guests. Specifically, we’re looking to have local businesses stand with us, offering their goods and services in the name of people of Portland. Do you know a local massage therapist who would offer an hour session for our cause? A Ma and Pa bed and breakfast? A brilliant yet out of work oil painter looking for exposure? If so, let us know by email at occupycomedypdx@gmail.com.

Comedy Show: 8pm
Come laugh about the revolution!

• Nato Green (“Laughter Against the Machine”
• Dwight Slade (“Comedy Central”)
• Augie Smith (“2010 San Francisco Comedy Competition Winner”)
• Arlo Stone (“Current Occupy Portland Resident”)

and special guests will entertain us 99-percenters with their humor and wits.

The People’s Story: 10pm
This film weaves archival footage and interviews with performances by actors and artists such as Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, and John Legend.

The performers' commitment to Howard Zinn's message makes this a labor of love. "Change doesn't come from the top, but rather from the bottom," Damon observes. "Without everyday citizens pushing to make a difference, there would be no America." It is Damon who reads the Declaration of Independence, surely one of the great protest documents in history.

Auctions, Comedy, and a Movie Please join us!

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According to comments at a subsequent spokescouncil meeting, this event raised about $2000 for Occupy Portland.

Senate Bill 909

• Date: November 10, 2011
• Time: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Location: Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97201
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Purpose

The Governor's nominees to the Oregon Education Investment Board are scheduled for Senate confirmation on Nov. 18. Until their confirmation, nominees are joining the Governor on a Senate Bill 909 work group. After confirmation they will meet as the OEIB.

UPCOMING MEETINGS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Nov. 10, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (2 separate meetings in Portland - locations listed below)

Nov. 21, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. (Portland)

Dec. 7, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. (Portland)

The work group has established executive work teams, that include other invited members. The work team meetings may be held in conjunction with the full work group, on the above dates. They will also schedule separate meetings, which will be noted in advance on the link at the bottom of the page.

Senate Bill 909 Work Group

Thursday, Nov. 10, 9 a.m. to 12

30 p.m.

Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97201

Senate Bill 909 Work Group

Outcomes-Based Investment Strategies Work Team

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2 to 5 p.m.

Conf. Room 1, Suite 205, World Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon St. Portland, OR 97204

Notice from Deb Mayer from "Oregon Save Our Schools"

This is what they are up to: They are redesigning the entire education system for the state. A council called Learn Works has orchestrated this plan which is a rehash of a plan conceived 20 years ago with original funding from the B & M Gates Foundation. Most of the 30 member Learn Works team are from the business community. There are no parent or student groups represented and educators are only minimally represented. The plan is to ditch the Superintendent of Education and put a CEO in charge who, the counsel advises should not be an educator but a business person instead, will design for Oregon a "Cradle to Career" system that taxpayers will fund. The language of Learn Works is scary and similar to ALEC legislation being passed in other states. More testing of students, more accountability, do more with less, etc. They plan to apply for the NCLB waiver which is a bad idea -- California estimated the waiver will cost their state $3.1 billion. Learn Works has developed no budget for the waiver or their new plan.

The Governor, (our Democratic Governor!), plans to rush this into law without public discussion or debate. Our group, Oregon Save Our Schools, thinks the public has a right to know about the future the governor's office is planning for us all. Students, parents, and educators should have a voice in this monumental decision. We are demanding that the Learn Works committee be transparent, allow public to know what they are up to and slow the process down.

We have asked the Oregonian and other media to report about the plan. No media has been at any of the meetings that our group has attended -- since September.

The next two meetings will be Thursday, Nov. 10, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Since they are open to the public. I would like to invite [[[Occupy Portland]] to attend.

The morning meeting is at the Waterfront Marriott. It will be warm inside, but you may have to sit on the floor as you listen to your future being decided for you. The afternoon meeting is at the World Trade Center. You can see from the agenda below that "Invited Testimony" is scheduled, but public testimony is not. Both meetings are only blocks away from Occupy. So . . .

I'm sharing my invitation with Occupy Portland to attend the public meetings on education reform.

Bring a sign. Bring cameras and video recorders. Bring the media.

This is your education and career we're talking about. Make your voice heard. Their may be the need for a mic check.

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Oregon Education Investment Board

[Senate Bill 909 more information]

Armistice Day

• Date: 11/11/11
• Time: 11:11 AM
• Location: Pioneer Square
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Purpose

COME AND JOIN US!

Where: Pioneer Courthouse Square

When: Friday, November 11, 2011 11:11 AM

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, it became “All quiet on the western front.” An armistice signed at six o’clock that morning took effect and brought a cease-fire to the “War to end all wars.” Since that fateful hour, most nations, which fought in that conflict, observe Armistice Day. The United States in 1938 made it official with a proclamation that states in part: “…it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and…inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.”

Unfortunately the horrors of World War One were to be outdone by those of World War Two and to honor the sacrifices of the veterans who fought in it, Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day in 1954. While it is fitting and proper to honor all veterans for their service, it is a shame that the original intent of November eleventh has become lost to the militarization and commercialization of this important date.

Veterans For Peace Chapter 72 will be gathering at the Pioneer Courthouse Square for our seventh annual commemoration of this solemn day. We invite the public to join us “with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace Through good will and mutual understanding between nations…”.

This event is endorsed by the Occupy Portland GA

Economics of Happiness: A Documentary Film.

• Date: November 11th, 2011
• Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
• Location: First Unitarian Church - 12th and Main in downtown Portland, Oregon
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Purpose

Sponsored by the Economic Justice Action Group (EJAG) of the First Unitarian Church with Alliance for Democracy and Real Wealth of Portland -

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. As governments and big business continue to push for 'growth' in the form if increased global trade, we're seeing an increase in climate chaos, senseless war, fundamentalism, financial volatility, income inequality, and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, people around the world are resisting these policies, demanding a re-regulation of both trade and finance. An. far from the old institutions of power, communities are coming together to re-build more human-scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm - an economics of localization.

Double bill with Happy:The Movie, time permitting.

• AFD-PDX
• EJAG
• Real Wealth PDX

Donations are suggest, but no one is turned away, we want you to see this film!

The 99% Is Diverse and United March

• Date: 11/12/11
• Time: 12:00PM Rally / 2:00PM March
• Location: Waterfront park at SW Salmon st and SW Naito Pkwy
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Purpose

This is a march to Make all the minorities groups and cultures together and educate them about the Occupy Portland Movement. We are marching against economic inequality and exploitation of working people especially minorities.

• NOVEMBER 12 2011
• OCCUPY PORTLAND
• PRESENTS THE 99%
• IS DIVERSE AND UNITED
• THIS TIME WE WON'T LET THEM DIVIDE US
• THIS TIME WE WILL BE TOGETHER AND STRONGER THAN EVER
• EXPECT US

Location: Waterfront park at SW Salmon st and SW Naito Pkwy

Time: We’ll gather at 12:00 pm and we’ll march at 2:00 pm.

Here are some things we are going to be marching for:

• A better quality of life
• Health care for all
• Education reform and make the higher education accessible for all
• Distribute the world's wealth equally with all
• Put an end to wars and stop killing innocent people
• Stop once and for all, the divisions and any discrimination among people. No matter the social class, race, skin color, immigration status, age, sexual orientation, disability we are all human and we have the same rights
• Protect the environment of our planet in a more strict way because it is the only one we have and is dying.
• Create jobs in the country and stop sending them to other places
• To have more benefits in the jobs and with better conditions

For more updates go to occupypdx.org

STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY

POWER IN UNITY We are workers. We are black. We are straight. We are Hispanic. We are men. We are White. We are gay. We are rich. We are women. We are unemployed. We are Middle Eastern. We are poor. We are white. We are students. We are people of faith. We are struggling. We are active. We are Asian. We are atheists.

We are everything in between. We are many.

WE ARE THE 99% and WE ARE UNITED against the greed of Wall Street that has damaged our economy, destroyed our jobs, forced foreclosure on our homes, polluted our environment and corrupted our democracy.

DIVERSITY MARCH in support of education, health care and job opportunities for all in support of justice and financial reform

Meet at Water front park at SW Salmon st and SW Naito Pkwy Gather at 12PM and We March at 2PM November 12, 2011

Other details
Facebook event page

[Occupy PDX more information]

Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution

• Date: Saturday November 12, 2011
• Time: All Day
• Location: N/A
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Purpose

A letter from Cairo to the Occupy movements & other solidarity movements.

Call-Out Letter from Cairo

After three decades of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and social justice. After a nearly utopian occupation of Tahrir Square lasting eighteen days, we rid ourselves of Mubarak and began the second, harder, task of removing his apparatuses of power. Mubarak is gone, but the military regime lives on. So the revolution continues - building pressure, taking to the streets and claiming the right to control our lives and livelihoods against systems of repression that abused us for years. But now, seemingly so soon after its beginnings, the revolution is under attack. We write this letter to tell you about what we are seeing, how we mean to stand against this crackdown, and to call for your solidarity with us.

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It's safe to say events in Egypt and Tunisia inspired us all in some way. Also, I think everyone in this group and a majority of Americans see no good reason why $1.2 billion of our tax money should go to prop up a repressive military regime in a foreign nation every year. The Egyptians are seeking the ability to have a much greater level of self-representation in government. We fought a revolution for that (and are fighting one now) so let's honor those that are doing the same. It's time to let the 1% in our country know that we're tired of America's colonial-like involvement in the rest of the world's affairs. We have our own problems to deal with, like constantly eroding education and health care systems.

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Keep Coal Out of the Northwest! A Teach In/Strategy Session

• Date: Sunday, November 13, 2011
• Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
• Location: Tabor Space, Muir Hall 5441 Southeast Belmont St. Portland, OR 97215
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Purpose

Sponsored by Portland Rising Tide

As the market for coal in the US falls, Big Coal threatens to open the Northwest as a gateway for coal export.

• The town of Longview, WA, 60 miles north of Portland, is facing a proposal from Millennium Bulk Logistics (a subsidiary of Big Coal giants Ambre Energy and Arch Coal) to become the second largest coal export terminal in the world, exporting up to 80 million tons of coal annually.
• Boardman, St. Helen’s and Coos Bay, OR as well as Bellingham, WA are all at some stage of talks with Big Coal companies.

Coal is the most carbon intensive fuel on the market and responsible for 80% of global warming emissions in the US.Coal companies have destroyed the American landscape through dangerous mining practices and labor violations.

Each of the open air coal cars on the mile long trains headed to the export terminals would release 500 pounds of coal into the air, land and water during transit. Current export proposals would require up to 50 coal trains each day coming from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.

Come enjoy coffee and snacks with Portland Rising Tide as we discuss these and other dirty tricks that Big Coal has in store for us. Share your vision for a coal-free existence and strategize with us on how we can stand up to dirty energy and keep coal out of the Northwest!

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Coal Hard Truth Forum

• Date: Mon, November 14, 2011
• Time: 7pm – 9pm
• Location: HOLLYWOOD THEATER 4122 NE SANDY BLVD, PORTLAND
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Purpose

LEARN HOW PROPOSED DIRTY COAL EXPORTS WILL AFFECT YOUR COMMUNITY, AND HOW YOU CAN HELP PREVENT IT.

Oregon & Washington states are ending our reliance on coal by committing to close our last coal plants. But now Big Coal is threatening to export tens of millions of tons of coal through our states to foreign markets. If they have their way, dirty and dangerous coal would jeopardize our health, safety, and economy in our communities.

Join us to learn more about: • Big Coals’ plans for the Northwest • Health & safety impacts • Economic impacts Free event!

Other details
Contact laura.stevens@sierraclub.org or 503-238-0442 x305.

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The 99% Teach In

• Date: Monday, November 14, 2011
• Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
• Location: Portland Building Auditorium 1120 Southwest 5th Avenue Portland, OR
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Purpose

The Dill Pickle Club proudly presents The 99%: A Teach-in on Occupy Portland. The forum will consist of short presentations to objectively bring together various perspectives on the current occupations movement. The event will focus on the economic, political and social factors that have led to the emergence of occupations throughout the country, and more specifically the movement’s impact on a localized level.

Presentations by:

Dr. Randall Bluffstone

(Professor of Economics, Portland State University)

John Coghlan

(Filmmaker, Occupy Portland Video Collective)

Dr. Veronica Dujon

(Professor of Sociology, Portland State University)

Michael Moore

(Organizer, Right2Survive)

Nina Reierson

(Info Booth Volunteer, Occupy Portland)

Denis Theriault

(Journalist, Portland Mercury)

This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program. The Dill Pickle Club also wishes to acknowledge a generous donation by Phil Wikelund in making this program possible.

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http://DillPickleClub.org

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Upcoming Events

These events are more than seven days away, please jump to each event's page for more info.

• Homelessness Awareness 11 15 11
• Get On The Bridge: We Declare a State of Economic Emergency for the 99% - November 17, 2011
• N17 11 17 2011
• Fix-It Fair 11 19 11
• March for Universal Health Care 11 19 2011
• Black Friday Mourning 11 25 2011
• Critical_Mass! 11 25 11

Past Events

These events have come and gone, please add media links about the results of these events to their pages.

• Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline 11 06 2011
• Bank Transfer Day 11 05 2011
• Hawthorne Street Bank Protests 10 31 2011
• Local Banks Occupy 11 04 11
• JPMorganChase Luncheon 11 03 2011
• Occupy Oakland Solidarity 11 02 2011
• Hit 'em where it hurts 11 01 11
• Michael Moore Visits Occupy Portland 10 31 2011
• Anti Coal Zombies 10 31 2011
• Occupy Into Action 10 30 2011
• Thriller 10 29 2011
• International Occupy March 10 29 2011
• Enlace 10 29 2011
• This Land is Our Land Super Rally 10 28 2011
• Labor Solidarity March 10 26 2011
• Vancouver Rising 10 22 2011

see also: PortlandOccupyPastEvents which includes earlier versions of some of these events.