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.

For new events, please read How to create a new Occupy Portland event, or you can send information to: ActionCommitteePDX@googlegroups.com

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Current Events

The 99% Is Diverse and United March

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  • 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

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Occu-Fest

PLEASE COME JOIN OCCUPY PORTLAND FOR AN OCCUPY FESTIVAL!! PORTLAND, ORE.– Occupy Portland is responding to the Mayor’s threat of eviction on Saturday night, November 12 and 13, by throwing a Potluck Dinner: a family-friendly event with music and celebration for the entire city. Affinity groups will lead neighborhoods in marches beginning around 2 PM converging on the Occupation from about 5 PM. At least one group is coming from Seattle. There were announcements of support from local and regional groups. The purpose of the Occupy potluck is to bring a significant mass of people together in solidarity with the nonviolent, humanitarian goals of Occupy.

See schedule of events below

General Assembly calls for action

Energy at the General Assembly on Thursday night was high, and attendance was sharply up. Observers say between 200 and 300 were in attendance. Volunteer facilitator Adriane said the only larger General Assemblies have been in the first week of the Occupation. Many speakers voiced a belief that the movement is growing stronger, that the threatened eviction will bring more energy into the movement, and that a continuing public presence is necessary to provide a place for people to meet and to make visible the systemic problems that corporatism has long kept invisible.

After the emergency GA held in front of City Hall at noon, working groups prepared lists of actions that people can take before and after the eviction date. Most of the ideas put forward include the importance of gathering the largest crowd Occupy Portland has yet seen, united in peace, united in support for the 99% whose interests have not been served by corporatism, by war, and by the concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few.

Action envisioned

We want to encourage and remind all Occupy event attendees that the Occupy movement is a peaceful and nonviolent movement.

Occu-Fest Saturday Schedule Of Events!

Meet at Waterfront park at SW Salmon st and SW Naito Pkwy 
Stop once and for all, the divisions and any discrimination among people.
  • 1:00pm — Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Workshop
Please join us at Terry Schrunk Plaza for this free workshop.
  • 2:00pm — Special training for arrest preparation.
This is being offered by the National Lawyer’s Guild at Terry Schrunk Plaza
  • 3:00pm — Live music in Terry Schrunk Plaza!
Little Sue, Melinda Pitterman, David Rovics, DJs and more!
  • 4:00pm — Feeder marches from neighborhoods start heading towards Pioneer Square.
Rally with your friends and start your own march from your neighborhood. 
If you’re not comfortable getting a permit or don’t feel safe walking in the streets, you can always march by bike (as biking in the road is perfectly legal).
  • 5:00pm — Rally at Pioneer Square.
If you’ve been following the Occupation’s actions, you’ve probably rallied at Pioneer Square. 
We’re expecting thousands to take the square, as usual.

This is a family friendly potluck and we invite you to bring a dish or picnic supplies to share. 
We encourage a diversity of food types (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc) Please have ingredients available. 
Please, do not bring any alcohol or illegal activities to our family-friendly event in a public park.
  • 8:00pm — FREE David Rovics concert at Terry Schrunk Plaza ~ Click on link details
David is back in town after touring Europe and America and will be playing for Occupy Portland. 
This will be his 19th visit to an Occupy site! 
The concert will feature musicians from across the country in celebration of freedom and community!

Swarm this Saturday Night Nov 12, on foot or on bicycle. 
11pm at Salmon St Fountain (SW Naito and Salmon in waterfrontpark)
We meet to circle and rally around Chapman and Lownsdale Squares.
  • 12:01am — Sit-in, bike-around, and stand up in Chapman and Lownsdale Parks!
We will be demonstrating our right to peaceably assemble. 
If you’re able to make it down for any part of Saturday, please come after midnight. 
It might be a cold and long night, so come rested and well prepared for the elements.
~*Special guest: The Portland Police Bureau*~
~*Featured Guests:other neighboring law enforcement agencies*~

We sincerely hope the city administration realizes that there are ways of dealing with the issues they have at the occupation other than dispersing demonstrators from the parks. By showing your support you will help send a message to the mayor that this movement is important enough that solutions other than eviction are needed.

Preparing for Saturday Night

Before Saturday night, those who have valuables in the Occupied parks are urged to secure them and to move them off-site. Coalitions of local labor groups and some local churches are offering transportation and storage. Friday is a day for clean-up for the potluck. Some voices recommend “leave no trace.”

There were also many ideas concerning actions during and after the planned eviction. Some will sit in wait to be arrested. A Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Workshop will be held at 1 pm at Terry Schrunk Plaza on Saturday. A training for those who are willing to risk being arrested is offered by the National Lawyer’s Guild at 2 PM on Saturday. Others will provide support for those being arrested. Ideas for after the eviction include the following: outreach to unions, homeless organizations and faith organizations, plans to keep the occupation visible, plans for community events occurring on a regular basis, plans to return to the park and clean it, re-seed the grass, care for the trees, and make the two parks that have been so important to us, more beautiful than they were before the Occupation.

To view the open invitation: http://occupyportland.org/2011/11/11/open-invitation-occu-fest/

Occupier and Non-Occupier Town Hall

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Purpose

Occupy Portland cordially invites you to a town hall meeting with a small sampling of Occupy Portland and the wider community. The meeting will be an opportunity for non-Occupiers to voice their concerns and frustration with OP, for Occupiers to listen, and for all of us to work on coming up with sustainable and mutually acceptable solutions to these issues.

We are holding this meeting in order to heal this rift in our community, and to talk about solutions. Everyone who wishes to attend must be prepared to be respectful of those with radically different viewpoints. If you are not capable of this kind of empathy and common respect, please do not come.

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To non-Occupiers and anti-Occupiers
I know many of you have concerns about attending. Your safety and comfort is our highest priority, so to ensure those two things, we’re bringing in a security team, as well as a team of professional facilitators and restorative justice experts to mediate the discussion. Furthermore, I’m doing my best to only invite people who I know personally to be kind, respectful people. If anyone acts out during the town hall and is disrespectful, I will instruct security to remove them, no exceptions and no second chances. I, Owen Sanders, will personally guarantee your physical and emotional safety at this town hall. If you still don’t feel safe or comfortable attending, please email me at owensanders@gmail.com and let me hear your concerns so I can do something to address them.
To Occupiers
This will be a meeting with our toughest critics. It's going to be hard, but it is vital that we reach out to the wider community and try to come to mutually acceptable solutions to the problems they bring up. Disrespect will not be tolerated at this town hall. Period.

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Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution

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Purpose

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

Call-Out Letter from Cairo[1][2]

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.

  1. ↑ "Originally published at No Military Trials for Civilians."
  2. ↑ The Campaign to End Military Trials of Civilians -- Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution



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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

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  • 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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David Rovics

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Purpose

David Rovics is back in town after touring Europe and America and will be playing for Occupy Portland. This will be his 19th visit to an Occupy site!

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From David's Bio:

David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90's he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90's he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable of who's who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.



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