Occupy Portland

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Our Only Weapon Is Our Refusal: Re-occupiers march through streets in downtown Portland on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 before occupying Shemanski Fountain in Portland's South Park Blocks. Occupy Your Neighborhood! Neighborhood Assembly Occupy The Internet! GlobalRevolution.TV OccupyStream People’s Assemblies Network Reflections on a Revolution (ROAR) support OWS Occupy your work space! Unions Mobilize To Block Occupy Wall Street Eviction

Thank you Portland Marathon! "The Occupy Portland people have been a godsend for us." -- Les Smith, Event Director, Portland Marathon Solidarity Forever!

Official Online Donations! If you are interested in funding food and supplies, please donate here: Donate to Occupy Portland Thank you! - Bryan Howarth Point of Contact Finance Committee

The purpose of this and other Occupy Portland-related work on PortlandWiki is to provide a central organizing space for all relevant information and work related to this gathering that anyone can access and contribute to. This is a "leaderless movement"; we are all involved in the work details.

Occupy Portland is leaderless, but not structure-less. The central and primary web site for the movement is OccupyPortland.org -- so if you want to help organize, you also need to be there. If you want to ask a basic question or get a quick orientation, the best place is probably the Occupy Portland Facebook page.

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Links to Photos, Videos, Documents, and Other Content

• Articles and Interviews
• Artwork - posters, flyers, etc.
• General Assembly - minutes, highlights, resources, etc.
• Goals and Demands - a working draft of the movement's goals, principles, and demands
• Photos
• Press Releases
• Timeline of Events
• Video

Help with Logistics and Communications

Forum Navigation

Communications contacts

• Join the Occupy Portland communication discussion forum
• Sign up for the Occupy Portland Communications email group: occupyportlandcommunications AT googlegroups DOT com.
• Email the Occupy Portland Interview subcommittee: occupyportlandinterviews AT googlegroups DOT com

Wanna help with communications and logistics?

Winning hearts and minds.
The Occupy Portland encampment is located at the Plaza Blocks Park. The Plaza Blocks are separated by SW Main Street, with Lownsdale Square on the north side and Chapman Square to the south. Both Plaza Blocks are bounded by Third and Fourth Avenues and Salmon and Madison Streets.

URGENT NEEDS

Please Come Pick Up Compost ASAP
Also Need 32 Gallon or Larger Garbage Cans for Sanitation

Items Wanted Quick List

Full List Here: Occupy Portland - Donations

• On-site WiFi.
• Tables, chairs.
• On-site power. Preferably solar and/or wind.

Power & Connection Resources Currently On-Site

• One on-site WiFi hotspot.
• Other WiFi open hot spots from nearby restaurants and cafes; out of range of Chapman Square.
• Intermittent WiFi hotspot provided by the court house.
• Power generator available on-site (not solar).
• Recharging station for laptops, mobile phones and other electronic devices on corner of SW Third & Fourth Avenues.

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Check out the pages below for (1) what needs to be done and (2) what you specifically are able to contribute. To link up with others, contact the point people.

• 99% Interviews or Photos - capture local stories on "We are the 99%"
• Anonymous Communication
• Audio Visual - Recording, editing, sharing
• Bicycles - Getting out the word
• Bitcoin - Public education campaign for digital currency
• Blogs - ask local blogs to write a post on Occupy Portland
• Occupy Portland - Business Solidarity - for lack of a better name
• Communications Equipment - What on-site communications equipment do we need to keep info flowing?

• DONATIONS - we need food, drinks, medical supplies, overnight, sanitation supplies

• Door to Door - distributing flyers, personal invites to get involved

• EMAIL GROUPS - 'point of contacts' for additional info or to get involved

• Flyers/Fliers - AND POSTERS: making, printing, sharing, distributing
• General Assembly (GA) Facilitation
• Group Text Messaging on cell phones
• IndyMedia
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat
• Legal and Safety - what to do if you are detained or arrested
• Live Streaming
• Note Taking
• Radio - AM, FM and podcast shows
• Reading List
• Mainstream Media - Corporate TV, newspapers, magazines, weekly papers
• Posters and Banners - make them, take them, share them
• PSA (Public Service Announcement) - short, simple messaging for the masses
• Reference info-statistics - Portland and Oregon economy
• School - Teach-ins, learning resources, library, training center, etc.
• Sleeping or camping outside
• Social Media Tutorials - learn about or teach Twitter, Facebook
• Things to Bring
• Software Tutorials - learn about or teach key software programs
• Translation
• TV - Public access, local cable television shows
• Video (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)
• Wifi Hotspots - build occupation hotspots and wifi hubs

Please help organize, streamline and consolidate this list!

Encampment

We Are the 99 Percent

• 22:02, 10 October 2011 (PDT): A Columbus Day Convergence took place on Monday, noon to 6 p.m. starting at the Oregon State Office Building (800 N.E. Oregon St.) and continued to Holladay Park. At 2 p.m. organizers offered a free chili lunch and open mic (BYOB = Bring-Your-Own-Bowl). At 6 p.m. a procession began from the Holladay Park through the Steel Bridge, finishing at the #OccupyPortland headquarters at Chapman Square. Twitter hashtag #OccupyEastPDX.

• 19:27, 9 October 2011 (PDT): News from occupied Chapman Square: Occupy Portland Camp update from inside marathon enclosure - Sunday 09 Oct 2011 | Report by Sylvia O.

• 16:10, 8 October 2011 (PDT): Chapman Square is crowded with occupiers, their tents and other supplies. Lots of activities happening all over the occupied square: classes (or maybe teach-ins), sign making, play activities for children, singing, organizing, etc. A loud generator is providing much-needed power. Would be great to replace with solar panels that could provide equivalent power supply. The library is has a bigger stock of books that was observed yesterday. So much food available that you'd have to try to go hungry. In fact, an observer was handed fresh fruit by a Food Not Bombs volunteer while also accepting new donations to the Occupy Portland library at the same time. Many impromptu, spontaneous and intelligent discussions happening everywhere, often made up of participants who otherwise have little in common with each other. An observer heard first hand from people quit their jobs to join the occupation, and know of others who did the same. Lots of awareness about the necessity of creating our own media and our own economy. Lots of spontaneous organization happening continuously. This is a movement.

• 21:38, 7 October 2011 (PDT): By mid-evening the mood at Chapman Square looked, felt and sounded celebratory and relaxed. Many families with children were present; most apparently having a great time. Lots of people engaged in activity ranging from light-hearted play to serious discussions. The 7:00 p.m. general assembly appeared to cycle through issues and discussions more productively, and appeared to avoid getting too bogged down--a step forward from the previous evening's GA.

• 08:50, 7 October 2011 (PDT): Reports aired over KBOO Radio's Positively Revolting program have indicated that protesters have come to a decision to consolidate in Chapman Square, located in Portland's Plaza Blocks, the downtown park situated across from Portland City Hall.

Camp residents still remained in Chapman Square as of noon, and held a general assembly to decide what to do next.

Occupy Portland! The revolution is here. The revolution is now. The revolution is being wikified.

Other Groups and Events

Right 2 Survive has set up a camp advocating for houseless people, R2D2 at the corner of Northwest Fourth Avenue and West Burnside Street on the vacant lot next to the Chinatown gate. The site will be officially opened on Monday, October 10th, which is National Homeless Day. The organizers are extending an open invitation to the community to come down and celebrate National Homeless Day at their new camp. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/411123.shtml

About Occupy Portland

Occupy Portland is Portland's answer to the Occupy Wall Street movement happening in New York City. The demonstration of solidarity with the Wall Street protesters will begin at noon on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 with a march out of SW Waterfront Park. Following the march, a public space in Portland will be "occupied" and used a a central location for meetings, events, and communications. (For logistical reasons, the exact location of the occupation site has not yet been announced.)

From the official website:

"We will gather in solidarity with the ongoing protest in New York City, Occupy Wall Street, and the growing number of cities whose people will no longer sit back watching corporate and special interests run their government. We are citizens of the United States, and this country is ours. We will take it back."

A note about Occupy Portland on PortlandWiki:

Q: Is the information here on PortlandWiki a redundant replication of data presented on Occupy Portland’s web site, facebook page, twitter feed, etc?

A: Some of it may be but the point is to ensure that everyone has access to information in many forms. Not everyone uses Facebook or Twitter (or knows how to), or can make sense of the different levels of information on the various Occupy sites. The Occupy Portland work here on the wiki adds value by consolidating, digesting, archiving, expanding and organizing material found on various websites, discussion groups, social media feeds, and so on.

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Together, We are the 99%

• OccupyWallStreet: Learn about the start of the occupy movement
• OccupyTogether: find a list of U.S. and international occupy locations
• Occupy Together Field Manual - General info and resources for the entire Occupy Movement, including...

- Hand Gestures

• Daily Kos: See a map and list of facebook occupy pages
• We are the 99%: read personal posts about the 99% majority who are not represented by the 1%
• US Days of Rage: learn about the 10/6/11 day of action
• The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America - 99% Movement
• FireDogLake.com
• AmpedStatus - Knowledge Is Power
• Petition the White House to recognize the Occupy Wall Street Protesters
• Occupy and Demand site for taking the temperature of people.
• Hashtag real time updates: #OccupyWallSt
• Unified calendar OccupyCalendar.org

Web hubs

• OccupyTogether Field Guide
• Please help improve the Wikipedia:Occupy Portland article - start by reading the discussion page.
• DailyKos List and map of over 200 locations
• Portland IndyMediaPDX
• B Media Collective

Other Resources

• Other Resources

See Also

Make Revolution Not War | Organized Power | Foreclosure | Portland General Strike | Food Not Bombs | City Wiki | Rally For Peace: Time To Break The Spell | Represent The People