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Labor Solidarity March - March Together with Occupy Portland!!

• 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: LABOR COMMUNITY MARCH - Solidarity with Occupy Portland!

Flyer

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.
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

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!

Thriller Dance Phenomenon

This is Portland’s 5th year participating in "Thrill the World", the world wide Thriller Dance Phenomenon. Not familiar with the event? You can view last year's dance at Pioneer Square Performance

Date and Time Information

• Dates October 27th, 29th, 30th

There are possibly three chances to participate: There are rumors that Thriller is going to be performed informally at the Alberta Art Walk this Thursday around 7.

There will be two other chances to perform the zombie dance. The first is the official Thrill the World day, Saturday, October 29th, at 7 pm at Irving Park, in NE Portland. The second dance is in Hollywood on October 30 at Hollywood Vintage. They begin gathering at noon. The performance will be approx. 12:45pm

Details

Details can be found at http://thrillportland.wordpress.com/

Learn the Dance

You can learn the dance with the following You Tube series. Learn the Thriller Dance

Event organizers are also holding dance practices at Fremont UMC, 2620 NE Fremont in Portland.

• Date and Time Friday, October 28, from 6-8 pm
• Saturday, October 29, from 1-3 pm

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: Facebook Event Page
• Sponsor page: Pink Martini

Sponsor

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

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, 11:30am - 1:30pm

Campaign for National Day of Action against the Private Prison Industry

• Date Saturday, October 29th
• Time 9:45am
• Location 3782 SE Hawthorne's Wells Fargo Bank
• Sponsor Enlace

Purpose

Tell Wells Fargo to dump GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America’s prison stock and invest in humanity.

About

Enlace, in partnership with community groups and unions across the US, is calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, America’s largest private prison corporations which have profited from billions in taxpayer money. Endorse the Campaign Today and/or Sign up to receive Email Alerts about the Campaign. Watch the Campaign Video End the Criminalization of our Communities! Stop the Raids and Deportations! Abolish Prisons!

National Month of Action

The Prison Divestment Campaign will launch a National Month of Action in October 2011, culminating in a National Day of Action on October 29th. Actions will happen in the following states throughout the month:

• Arizona-Tucson November 2nd
• California-Los Angeles October 5th and 19th
• Colorado-Denver October 28th
• Florida
• Indiana
• Kansas-Wichita October 29th
• Minnesota-Minneapolis October 15th
• New York-Long Island-Manhattan
• Oregon-Portland October 29th
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Washington

More information will be posted soon about details of the actions. For more information please contact Daniel at daniel@enlaceintl.org or 213-284-3802.

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

About

Michael Moore, the controversial author and filmmaker, will sign copies of his new book "Here Comes Trouble." The book is Moore's first since "Dude, Where's My Country?" in 2003 and is a series of vignettes from his life. The event begins at 6 p.m. on Oct. 31 and is a book-signing only.

Additional Information

We have received word that Michael Moore will be doing a book signing at Powell's Books and will be visiting the Occupy camp as well. Anyone with more info, please feel free to add.

For those interested: Michael Moore will be hosting a Halloween Party. More information is at Halloween Fundraiser According to that website, it is from 8pm to 11pm, and is a fundraiser for RevolutionTruth.

Zombie March

• 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!

Preface

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.

Zombie Facts

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 organized! 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.

Background

Faced with declining profit and image across America, Big Coal is courting the seemingly insatiable overseas energy markets. Nearly every deep water port in the Northwest is being pursued to export coal. The first two such projects are seeking permits for infrastructure that would allow close to 110 million tons of coal export annually-roughly equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of 40 million cars.

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. The Pacific Gateway terminal, located outside of Bellingham, WA is being pursued by Peabody Coal to export 54 million tons annually. Boardman, St. Helen’s and Coos Bay, Ore are all in some level of talks with coal companies.

Why we must defeat coal export

At this stage of climate chaos it is indefensible to invest any more money in nonrenewable fossil fuel infrastructure. 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. In the one year since Big Coal brought export ideas to the Northwest, they have been caught lying on permit applications acting without permits at all.

Millennium unreported export plans for their Longview terminal by up to 75 million tones annually and Peabody illegally paved 9 acres of wetlands and trees to make way for their proposed 54 million ton facility. Before opening their doors, these companies have proven their toxicity to the communities they work in.

Climate justice and coal export

Coal and other fossil fuel development is based on the practice and principle of externalizing costs, shoving them onto the general public and onto the natural world in the form of pollution, impacts to human health, and destruction of land and water resources. The coal exported through Northwest ports would be sourced from strip mines in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming and travel via open car rail through the Columbia River gorge.

Well water pollution is already an issue that forces many farmers in the Powder River Basin out of their rural lifestyles. An increase in demand for coal resulting from coal export terminals would further the environmental damage in the Powder River Basin where over 37,000 acres have already been strip-mined and abandoned by Big Coal.

Dozens of towns between the Powder River Basin and the coal export terminal are at risk of becoming “dirty coal train communities.” Each of the open air coal cars on the mile long trains proposed to transport coal to the export terminals releases 500 pounds of coal into the air, land and water during transit. Current export proposals would require up to 50 coal trains each day. Additionally, the small towns on the train routes are ill-equipped to deal with such high volume train traffic and have no contingency plans for the hospitals, schools and businesses that would be blocked by the heavy rail traffic.

Past coal actions by Portland Rising Tide

“Official Notice” delivered to coal financiers On February…. Over 50 banks across Portland were visited by Portland Rising Tide and delivered Indy Media

“Bank Closure” Activists from across the state join Rising Tide to shut-down “dirty money” banks funding coal. YouTube Video

National Break up with your Bank day/ Bank Transfer Day, Guy Fawkes 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 90 sec. video and this 4 minute video by Josh Fox, Academy Award nominated producer of Gasland.

About (by Riannah Weaver)

Hands Around the White House is a protest in objection to accepting the keystone pipeline through the heartland of the US. From tar sands to texas. In keep with with nov 5th events, ( change your bank day) we would like to do Hands Around the Federal Building here in Portland, and we'll be talking about the tar sands.

Many of you probably know about the issue of the tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline. Most of us are here because we recognize fundamental issue around the system. These issues make people aware of how far system has failed. Some issues are directly about survival. The tar sands relates to ecological destruction. Tar sands in Canada is the most costly. for 1 gallon extracted, 4 gallons h20 polluted. Pipeline touches aquifers for 30% of agriculture in this country. the likelihood of leaking pipeline is 100%.

The issue is dark and it highlights how corrupt the system is because it's willing to fund this project, banks bailed out by taxpayer money and those banks are enabling destruction of the climate.

THIS IS NOT OK. Please stand with Occupy Portland against this INCREDIBLE environmental injustice. Our children deserve better. WE deserve cleaner energy alternatives. For what they are going to spend on this pipeline, they could do so much better with.

PLEASE INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

PLEASE ATTEND ON SUNDAY. If you need info on times, please check on the OCCUPYPORTLAND.org website, at the Occupy Portland info tent, or call OCCUPY PORTLAND info, which you can also find the number for on the website. The protest will likely be in the mid afternoon around 2 and 5.