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PLEASE NOTE: Events listed may be endorsed by the Occupy, or sponsored by people who share the goals of the Occupy movement. In addition, there are listings of free or inexpensive events/activities in and around Portland that are open to anyone interested.

Daily

RIDESHARE OPPORTUNITY

Daily Vigil at City Hall. Please join us!

Today

TESTN Group Meeting

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 10am – 12pm
  • Location: Peace House on NE 18th and Tillamook
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Purpose

T.E.S.T.N Group (Training, Education, Strategy and Tactics for Nonviolence)

Hold a weekly meeting to discuss strategy and tactics of the movement while using our skills and experience to bring nonviolence into every aspect of our lives internally and externally through training and education.


Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

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  • Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil


National Day of Action against Wells Fargo!

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
  • Time: 12:00pm until 2:00pm
  • Location: Standard Insurance Building 900 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR
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Purpose

On November 17th, 9 members of PCASC were arrested for standing in opposition to Wells Fargo's investment in private prisons.

Wells Fargo invests in private prison company's GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). These companies fund the writing & passing of racist and oppressive laws which criminalize communities of color in order to fill their prisons for maximized profit.

On January 24th we return to Wells Fargo to demand the divestment of stock in private prisons. It's a national day of action against Wells Fargo.
Join us along with other community organizations as we stand against Wells Fargo's racist investments.

We'll be meeting at the Standard Insurance Building at 900 SW 5th Ave at 12pm til 2pm.

The National Prison Industry Divestment Campaign is working to expose the profiteering of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the biggest private prison companies in the US, who are making millions off the separation and incarceration of immigrants and communities of color at the expense of our tax dollars.

We are calling on all prison shareholders to divest from the prison industry.

End the deportations and the raids!
Abolish All Prisons!
Legalization Now!



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Occupying Peace - Workshop and Practice Group in Nonviolent Communication

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Purpose

This is an 8 week workshop and group in Compassionate Communication that repeats every 8 weeks.

To meet needs for learning, continuity, safety and trust, the group is open to new people only during the first two sessions of each 8 week group. If you want to attend the group, please show up on the day or by 1/31/2012 at the latest.

What does it take to
  • Reclaim our power to be fully alive?
  • To heal the trauma and pain that keeps us stuck?
  • To deal with the judgment and criticism, the negative self talk and the attitude of demand, that keeps us separate from healthy connections with others?
What does it take to tell our truth in a way that can be more easily heard by others?

The human soul hungers for the deep nourishment of understanding, connection and self-expression.

The domination system has outposts in our heads. We've been trained to think and communicate in a way that re-enforces our powerlessness and victimization.

Why? Because powerful people can't be bossed around. We don't give away our power through compliance.

Every Tuesday we will explore what is alive in us and practice our communication using NVC.

Upgeya Pew is an experienced and trained educator in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Mediation. His passion is in creating partnership culture through transformation in consciousness.

Attend this workshop and you will learn practical tools to
  • Learn what triggers you emotionally.
  • Clarify what’s underneath your negative self-talk so that you transform it into self-love.
  • Develop skills for responding rather than reacting when in conflict.
  • Increase your ability to build relationships based on compassion and mutual understanding.
  • Create a world where we care for and respect one another, celebrating our differences.



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For more details, email: OccupyPortlandStreetTeam@gmail.com

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Building Intentional Community

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
  • Location: Peace House 2116 NE 18th Ave, PDX
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Purpose

Every Tuesday from 4pm to 5:30pm the Peace House (2116 NE 18th Ave, PDX) is hosting a work group to help interested Occupy participants to find ways to establish functioning intentional communities.

Drawing on their 25-year experience of living in community, members of the Peace House will share ideas, resources and "hand holding" with those who would like to get started.

This is an exercise in mutual sharing. No one is an expert in how to live together in community, but together all can learn what is needed.

Bring your vision of what kind of community you want to live in and share it with us.

Together, we will work to bring that vision into reality.


Solutions Full Committee Meeting

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Purpose

Meet Tuesdays at 4:30 with the whole committee at the Occupy Portland Office

All are welcome.

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Sunday meetings are for working groups only.


Occupy Portland Healthcare Committee

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  • Date: Tuesdays (except the third Tuesday of every month due to the JwJ meeting)
  • Time: 6pm
  • Location: PSU Smith Center (subject to change, please use the link under more info to verify meeting location)
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Purpose

This is a group that will focus on direct actions for Single Payer or Universal Healthcare.

We believe Oregon has a very good chance to be the next state after Vermont to form a Universal Healthcare system.

We will also be working with other organizations in organizing state-wide actions.

Healthcare is a human right!! Healthcare for all!! Everyone in, nobody out!!

occupypdxhealthcare@googlegroups.com

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Food Not Bombs - SE Feed

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  • Date: Every Mon Tues Fri
  • Time: 6pm - 8pm (sometimes we get to the park @ 5:30, sometimes we stay later than 8pm)
  • Location: Colonel Summers Park - SE 17th & SE Taylor under the brick pavilion
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Purpose

To feed whoever is hungry, delicious, nutritious, free vegan food! & to prevent perfectly good food from going to the dump. Living off of societies waste is awesome!

Do you ever get hungry?
Do you like food or like to cook?
Well why don't we know each other yet? I think we're already in love.

We are available to help with any Occupy related, or radical event!

We request those that partake to bring their own container and utensil, if at all possible.
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Movement Building Open Forum

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 7pm – 9pm
  • Location: St Francis (OPDX HQ, Che Room) - 1131 Southeast Oak St
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Purpose

All are welcome to participate in this open forum!


Bikes For Humanity Volunteer Repair Clinics - Tuesdays

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  • Date: Every Tuesday
  • Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
  • Location: Community Exchange Bike School, 4038 SE Brooklyn St, Portland
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Purpose

Bikes For Humanity PDX(B4HPDX) is a community service project aimed at providing the public affordable refurbished bikes, repair classes & workshop space.

They have 100+ donated used bikes & need volunteers to catalog, clean and refurbish the bikes for bike adoption events.

Shop space has been donated for volunteer training and bike repair. Weekly volunteer clinics starting on Tuesday & Saturday.

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For full details see http://www.b4hpdx.org


David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years

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Purpose

London anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber is in talk town to talk about the history of debt, and our relationship to it. His most recent book is, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"

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David Graeber - We Are The 99% is presented by Reading Frenzy.

From the book synopsis: Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.

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Wednesday

Panel Meeting/Training

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  • Date: Wednesdays
  • Time: 10am – 2pm
  • Location: St. Francis in the Che Room on SE 12th and Pine
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Purpose

The first part of our time will be focused on discussion, tips and planning new panel events.

The second half of our time will be dedicated to practicing and role playing, telling our personal stories and taking tough questions.

See you there!


Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

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  • Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil


T.U.P.A.C. meeting

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  • Date: Mondays and Wednesdays
  • Time: 3pm – 4pm
  • Location: Central Library 801 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Meet to discuss upcoming events and actions.

The United Performing Arts Collective, T.U.P.A.C.

TUPAC is an expanding group of persona who use visual literary, performance art, and music to spread messages, hopes, dreams and goals of Occupy Portland to the greater 99%.

Join us in Dance, Expression, Inspiration, and Solidarity.

Contact
occupytupac@gmail.com
Request to join the listserv
occupytupac@googlegroups.com
Follow us on Twitter



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Tahrir Square Uprising 1 yr Anniversary

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  • Date: Wednesday Jan 25
  • Time: 4:30pm until 8:00pm
  • Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
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Purpose

One year anniversary of the Jan 25 Tahrir Square uprising, power to the people, show your solidarity with all oppressed peoples world wide.

Gather in public squares and march to banks police stations, prisons, malls or any spot that represents World Wide corruption!

No more War for profit!

No more American Corporate Imperialism!

Decolonize the mind; Occupy the Earth with LOVE and Resistance to the police state!!!

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Action Committee

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Purpose

Action Committee invites everyone to attend and participate in meetings.

Other details
Contact at: actioncommitteepdx@googlegroups.com


Free Home Weatherization Workshop

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  • Date: Wednesday, January 25 2012
  • Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Location: Mt Scott Community Center 5530 SE 72nd Ave, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Free Home Weatherization Workshop

Participants find out how to implement simple measures to lower home energy use and learn how to install effective weatherization materials in their homes using only basic tools such as scissors and screwdriver.

Each participating income-qualified Portland household receives a free kit of materials worth over $150.

Each kit includes:

  • reusable vinyl storm windows
  • door weatherstripping
  • pipe insulation
  • a compact fluorescent light
  • and more.

Weatherization materials available for purchase for folks not eligible to receive a free kit - they can purchase materials from CEP. Money from the purchase goes to fund our programs.

We provide optional follow-up visits for interested workshop participants to answer specific questions on installation of workshop materials. We also ask for feedback from participants which help us to continually improve our program.

To register, call 503.284.6827 x108 or email energy@communityenergyproject.org



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Presented by Community Energy Project (CEP)

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Climate Voices: A Film Night with IELP

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  • Date: Wed Jan 25
  • Time: 7:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: The Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard , Portland, OR
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Purpose

Join the International Environmental Law Project for the screening of two films that explore the personal face of climate change.

'To the Land of the Setting Sun' considers how perspective and framing impact the environmental reality we see. The award-winning short film was produced in Portland for a 48-hour Go Green film competition, and later screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

'There Once Was an Island: Te Henua E Nnoho' chronicles the small island community of Taku as they face the first devastating affects of climate change. Lacking even electricity, the islanders come to understand how rising seas and failing crops are the result of climate change--and consider what they must do to save their community.

The International Environmental Law Project is a non-profit legal clinic housed at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. For the past two years, IELP has provided pro bono legal advice to Pacific small island developing States within the United Nations climate change negotiations.

The staff and student clerks of IELP will offer an update from the December 2011 United Nations climate change negotiations, as well as some reflections on the personal voices of climate change. The evening will conclude with a raffle.

You can purchase tickets in advance here: http://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales/pages/TicketSearchCriteria.aspx?evtinfo=26583%7E5f969332-ec94-41af-822d-5c7ec8f2ca2b&epguid=2ed1a565-6d57-411b-ba95-e2f1d8e9a2c5&

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MUSIC FOR THE WORKING CLASS

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Purpose

Join the Portland IWW on the last Wednesday of every month as they host this foot-stomping, rabble-rousing music night!

Solidarity forever!

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Shut Down the Corporations flyer party! 25 January 2012

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F29 Fylers - more at ShutDowntheCorporations.org.
  • Date: January 25th, 2012
  • Time: 9-10, Socializing All Night Long
  • Location: Meet at St Francis (SE Oak/11th), $1 beers at Hungry Tiger Too after
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Purpose

We want to blanket the whole SE community in one giant sweep to let everyone know about the F29 National Day of Action against ALEC as we Shut Down the Corporations!

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Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society's obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations. We call on the People of Portland to target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which is a prime example of the way corporations buy off both our legislators and our legislation, serving the interests of transnational megacorporations and NOT people. They used it to create the anti-labor legislation being fought against in Wisconsin and to craft the racist SB 1070 Bill in Arizona. There are countless ways ALEC influences impacts each of our lives, please check the website. #F29

[www.shutdownthecorporations.org more information]

Thursday

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

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  • Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil


Outreach Weekly Organizer Training

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Purpose

We will run a weekly training after the Outreach meeting.

We will train on many different aspects of grassroots organizing including: canvassing, phone banking, campaign power mapping, running effective meetings, public speaking, Civil Disobedience, etc.

Suggest a topic we can agree on and we WILL find an educator to train us.

Other details
occupyportlandstreetteam@gmail.com

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Women's Caucus weekly meeting

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Purpose

Women's Caucus weekly meeting.

Women’s Caucus invites all women to meetings.

Contact: opwomen@googlegroups.com

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Spending Committee

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  • Date: Thursdays
  • Time: 6:00pm – 6:50pm
  • Location: St. Francis, SE 12th & Oak Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

Come and be a part of the Spending Committee Meetings for Occupy Portland.

Learn how money is reimbursed or approved to different entities within Occupy, or submit a proposal to be deliberated.

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We needs more members representing committees.

Carrie Medina, Spending Committee P.O.C.


Food Not Bombs - NE Feed

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  • Date: Every Thurs
  • Time: 6pm - 8pm
  • Location: Alberta Park - 1905 NE Killingsworth St, under the over-covering
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Purpose

To feed whoever is hungry, delicious, nutritious, free vegan food! & to prevent perfectly good food from going to the dump. Living off of societies waste is awesome!

Do you ever get hungry?
Do you like food or like to cook?
Well why don't we know each other yet? I think we're already in love.

We are available to help with any Occupy related, or radical event!

We request those that partake to bring their own container and utensil, if at all possible.
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CRC Public Forum on Police Accountability

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  • Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012
  • Time: 6 - 8 PM
  • Location: East Portland Community Center 740 SE 106th Ave, Portland 97216
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Purpose

The Citizen Review Committee (CRC) are hosting a community forum to present information about community oversight of the police and hear community input about police services.

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The Citizen Review Committee (CRC), a nine-member volunteer committee appointed by the Portland City Council to monitor and advise the City Auditor's Independent Police Review (IPR) division, hear appeals of police complaints and gather community concerns about police services in Portland, Oregon.

It is particularly important for the Citizen Review Committee (CRC) to hear from members of the community who have concerns about (a) incidents they have endured or witnessed at the hands of the Portland police and/or (b) how the civilian oversight system in Portland works.

We strongly encourage you all, especially those involved with Occupy Portland who tried telling their stories to City Council but were gavelled down by the Mayor, to turn out next Thursday, the 26th, at the East Portland Community Center to go on record with CRC with your concerns.

The forum is facilitated and notes will be posted to the IPR/CRC website. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact 503-823-0926 or crc@portlandoregon.gov

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Feminist Agenda Launch Party/Miss Representation Screening

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  • Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012
  • Time: 6:30pm until 8:30pm
  • Location: Mercy Corps (please do not call) 45 SW Ankeny , Portland,
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Purpose

Join us for our official launch on January 26!

A free, all-ages event!

Join us for a screening of "Miss Representation", which explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence, and "Generation of Consolidation", a series of short films on media literacy by the students of Reel Grrls Seattle.

  • ALL AGES
  • ASL INTERPRETED
  • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
The 21+ crowd is invited to join us at Beauty Bar following the event, with drink specials for attendees!

Additional info: http://feministagendapdx.wordpress.com/atten/​feminist-agenda-pdx-launch-​event-jan-26/

This event is sponsored by Weiden+Kennedy, Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, and Women in Film Portland.

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A Budget For the Rest of Us

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  • Date: Thursday, Jan 26
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Location: Oregon Fair Trade Campaign Office - 310 SW 4th Ave., Suite 436
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Purpose

Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee invites everyone to help plan and organize a Community Assembly to create a people’s budget. We will create a platform where working people can craft a budget and spending proposal addressing the primary concerns we all share.

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A budget prioritizes how money is spent in any economy. Regardless of whether a budget governs the expenditures of a household or whether it governs business, or government, it must meet the needs of all who rely on it. A budget that only serves the 1% at the expense of the 99% fails entirely.

This is where you come in. We invite you to bring your ideas to shape a “people’s budget.” Working together, we can overcome existing budgetary shortfalls, and provide the appropriate revenue necessary to support services that remain neglected or unfunded.

We will create an “action plan” aimed at achieving our budget demands. This will launch an ongoing campaign focused on achieving our aims. To mark the formal launch of our campaign, we’ll undertake a symbolic action, such as marching to City Hall to present our demands. To ensure we do not lose focus or momentum, we will mark the path to achieving our goals with clear mileposts. Our goal is to proceed with our first Community Assembly on April 7th, 2012 at First Unitarian Church.

Right now more and more of your friends, neighbors co-workers and family members are willing to stand up and be heard. Won’t you join us?

NE Alberta Street's Last Thursday

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  • Date: the last Thursday evening of each month

Purpose

This event offers plenty of gallery shows, plus sidewalk vendors, live music and a street-fair vibe.

A monthly art event in which galleries open new exhibitions of works by painters, sculptors, photographers and glass artists, as well as innovative conceptual works and site-specific installations. It has since become The Rose City’s most vibrant and active visual arts event.

Participating venues include
  • Ampersand
  • Appendix Project Space
  • Guardino Gallery
  • Talisman Gallery
  • Together Gallery

If you would like to add any events related to Last Thursday, please email info@lastthursdayonalberta.com

Other details
See also: First Thursday & Friday

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Spokes Council

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  • Date: Thursdays
  • Time: 7pm – 10pm
  • Location: St. Francis 1131 Southeast Oak Street
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Purpose

Spokes Council

All are welcome!

Please spread the word through committee/caucus list servs and also ATTEND!

It is especially important to become involved with the Spokes Council meetings and other meetings where actions are decided on!

This will be a great chance to voice your ideas, to re-group as committees, assess, and plan for moving forward.



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http://occupyportland.org/


Friday

(Tailgate Party) Occupy The Superbowl!

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  • Date: Friday, January 27, 2012 at 10:00am until Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 11:30pm

Purpose

We will be on the steps on the east side of the Indiana Statehouse Building which is located on the north west corner of Capital St. and Washington St. Downtown Indianapolis.

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Our School: Education Brain Trust

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Purpose

Our School hosts the Education Brain Trust once a week to discuss and brainstorm ideas on the role that Occupy Portland can play in furthering the impending educational renaissance and our current self actualization as a community.


OP Labor Outreach Committee Meeting

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Purpose

Need volunteers to facilitate & take notes.

Proposed Agenda
1. Review our committee work, the process for taking on work and moving it forward, and identify changes we should make now to prepare for a busy spring.
Current Work
- Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget - May 5th, First Unitarian Church
- East County Education Support
Future/Possible Work
- Unemployed organizing
- Labor Education
- Occupy/Labor Panel or conference
- Workers struggles: PSU Student workers, New Seasons workers



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See Also:

Facebook Pages


Local Candidate Forum

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  • Date: Friday January 27th, 2012
  • Time: 5:30pm - 8pm
  • Location: Community room at People's Coop
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Purpose

On Friday January 27th, 2012 the Portland Green Party, Oregon Progressive Party, and Occupy Portland participants are coming together for a local candidate forum in the community room at People's Coop.

Meet and greet starts at 5:30pm, forum begins at 6pm and goes until 8pm. Go upstairs to the Community Room.

Candidates for Portland City Council, Mayor, and Multnomah County Commissioner are invited.

Participants will be limited to thirty audience members asking questions and six candidates answering. In addition there will be one convener, two facilitators, and an Occupy media person for the live stream.

Ten spots are reserved for Occupy Portland in the audience. These will be filled on first come first serve basis but with spokes/POC given preference and the potential for this to be replaced in whole or part by representatives chosen as a result of a Spokes Council or GA decision.

The whole concept is for this forum to be a productive working conversation that not only tells us who the candidates are but also works towards positive change. It will not be a draining debate experience. This will be an energizing positive event that will hopefully lead to collaborative progressive efforts.

If this event is successful we may host several more. Contact Jorden Leonard if you would like to attend.

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Prior to the forum introduction statements from the candidates will be made available online here and elsewhere, and may in paper the day of. The candidates will also receive a statement from each of our groups about what is important to us locally prior to the day of the forum.

If more than 6 candidates wish to attend then Occupy Portland will get to choose 2 of the 6. This will be a choice made by Occupy attendants unless a proposal passes through the Spokes Council or GA that would make this decision.

The goal of this forum is to help inform the groups/individuals participating about who they might like to endorse, as well as building relationships between candidates and the groups.

Food Not Bombs - SE Feed

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  • Date: Every Mon Tues Fri
  • Time: 6pm - 8pm (sometimes we get to the park @ 5:30, sometimes we stay later than 8pm)
  • Location: Colonel Summers Park - SE 17th & SE Taylor under the brick pavilion
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Purpose

To feed whoever is hungry, delicious, nutritious, free vegan food! & to prevent perfectly good food from going to the dump. Living off of societies waste is awesome!

Do you ever get hungry?
Do you like food or like to cook?
Well why don't we know each other yet? I think we're already in love.

We are available to help with any Occupy related, or radical event!

We request those that partake to bring their own container and utensil, if at all possible.
More detailed and important information


Bmedia Arts & Cultural Friday Night Events

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  • Date: Fridays
  • Time: 7pm – 9pm
  • Location: Occupy Office - 1131 Southeast Oak St
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Purpose

Arts and Culture Night!

Arts and Culture committee along with the Media Coalition organize Friday’s evening events including movies, open mics, poetry slams, local acts, and visiting famous/not-so-famous musicians.


IPRC Certificate Program Show & Tell

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  • Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
  • Time: 7:00pm until 10:00pm
  • Location: Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

The writers and cartoonists of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) 2011/2012 Certificate Program are holding a Show & Tell of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Cartoons for the public’s pleasure.

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Saturday

Healthcare Committee Education Event

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  • Date: Sat, Jan 28th
  • Time: 11:00am until 4:00pm
  • Location: 4867 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Portland Oregon
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Purpose

Occupy Health Fair Scheduled for January, 28th 2012

WHAT
Portland Occupy Health has organized an Occupy Health Fair to empower the community to reclaim their health. This unique event is meant to create dialog between Healthcare Organizations and Communities, provide information on alternatives to the current profit-driven insurance model of care, and educate on broad-spectrum health.
WHO
This is a grass roots organization of citizens and professionals dedicated to empowering communities to take control, and positively transform their health and the healthcare system.
To learn more or to get involved, please visit

http://www.pdxoccupyhealth.org

or

Email Magan at: magan.holm@gmail.com

Other details
Also: National Strategy Conference – January 28 and 29, 2012

You Can Also Join Us In Houston!

You are invited to join Healthcare-NOW! activists from around the country to plan our strategy to win guaranteed single-payer national health insurance. By learning and sharing with one another we can build on the tremendous successes of the last year and develop the plan to push Congress to implement single-payer national health insurance NOW.

When
January 28 and 29, 2012
Where
Hilton Houston Hobby Airport, Houston, TX
Time
  • Sat, 2pm – 4pm – Pre-Conference Southern Hospitality Meet & Greet with Single Payer Allies
  • Sat, 4pm – 9pm – Strategy Conference
  • Sun, 9am – 5pm – Strategy Conference continues
Fee
$40 for members (anyone who has donated in 2011 and/or attended 2010 conference in Philadelphia) and $60 for non-members.
Food
Dinner will be provided on Saturday night. Breakfast and lunch on Sunday.

There are two airports in Houston, TX. It is preferable to book your flight to the William P. Hobby Airport. Intercontinental Airport is 32 miles north of Hobby Airport and about 45-minutes to 90-minutes by car, taxi, shuttle or Metro bus.

http://www.healthcare-now.org/

To view the speakers scheduled for the PDX event, please click on the link below.

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Winter Market at Shemanski Park

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  • Date: Saturdays thru Feb 25
  • Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
  • Location: The Winter Market is located in the South Park Blocks at Shemanski Park between SW Salmon & SW Main.
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Purpose

Portland Farmers Market launches an inaugural Winter Market at Shemanski Park in 2012!

Enjoy live music and samples of wonderful locally grown and prepared foods.

Shop for winter produce, meats, cheeses, wine, seafood, baked goods and more every Saturday in January and February.

Hot food, warming soups and covered spaces available to chase away the chills.
Find us on the web



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Dogcupy Portland

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  • Date: Saturdays thru Mar 31
  • Time: 11:00am until 2:00pm
  • Location: Bank of America Hawthorne Branch 3757 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR
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Purpose

MAN'S BEST FRIEND IS NOT THE BIG BANKS!

This is a creative and PEACEFUL protest to draw positive media attention to our cause.

Who could talk badly about a bunch of God's most loyal creatures?

We will be meeting at the corner of 37th and Hawthorne, and protesting in front of all 3 banks in the immediate area...

Although you are welcome to protest wherever is convenient and oppressive.

This is a creative way to involve all of our friends who still want to participate in the Occupy movement but don't necessarily want to go downtown. We are showing that the Occupation is more than just downtown.

We also hope that this kind of event will inspire creativity within the ranks of the Occupiers.

So please join us. I'll bring the dog treats and you guys bring the creative dog signs...



Other details
This event is held in solidarity with the Occupy Portland movement.

PLEASE BRING YOUR DOGS ON A LEASH
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DOG, BORROW A DOG.

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Occupy Beaverton Flogging Wally

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  • Date: January 28, 2012
  • Time: 12:00 PM
  • Location: 8225 SW Apple Way Portland, OR 97225 - Old Zupans Grocery near Jesuit High School
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Purpose

Help stop the spread of Walmart Grocery Stores in the Portland Metro Area

Other details
Bring your Anti-Walmart signs and help stop the spread of the Walmart disease in our communities.

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Peace and Safety Meeting

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  • Date: Saturdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Backspace 115 Northwest 5th Avenue Portland, OR (on 5th between Couch and Davis)
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Purpose

Peace and Safety Meeting


Rally for Reproductive Rights!

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Put it on the shelf!.
  • Date: Saturday, January 28th
  • Time: Noon
  • Location: Meet at the grassy knoll on MLK @ E. Burnside Street
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Purpose

Bring all your friends and come to the Rally for Reproductive Rights! Stand with us and tell Obama, "We decide when, and if, we procreate!"

The Obama administration recently overruled a decision by the FDA that would have allowed all girls of reproductive age to purchase Plan-B OneStep (the morning after pill) without a prescription. Even though FDA Administrator Margaret Hamburg said in a statement that the pill could be used safely by girls as young as 11, Kathleen Sebelius and the Health and Human Services Department, for the first time ever in history, publicly disregarded their own experts.

Put it on the shelf! Plan B One-Step should be made available on Oregon store shelves for all girls of reproductive age, NOW!

Many pharmacies are closed on evenings and weekends, even if the drugstores they operate in are still open; since Plan B is most effective if taken within 72 hours of having unprotected sex, such delays matter. The American Academy of Pediatrics found no legitimate reasons to continue requiring a prescription for the pill. According to the group, “it is estimated that appropriate use of emergency contraception could reduce the number of unintended pregnancies each year by half and thereby similarly reduce the abortion rate.”

The experts agree, Plan B is safe for all. So bring all your friends with you (and a sign!) and together we can demand that our leaders allow Plan B to be put on Oregon store shelves, NOW!

Other details
RSVP on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/events/130589803721369/

Plan B FAQ- http://www.planbonestep.com/plan-b-faq.aspx

More info on the ruling-

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2011/12/07/gIQAF5HicO_story.html?tid=pm_pop

http://www.bet.com/news/health/2011/12/12/teen-girls-still-need-a-prescription-for-plan-b.html

http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/scientists-deflated-by-obamas-policy-decisions-38384/

Tell Oregon Governor Kitzhaber how you feel- http://www.facebook.com/johnkitzhaber

Tell the Obama Administration how you feel- http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments


Meditation circle

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Time: 12:30pm until 3:30pm
  • Location: Portland City Hall
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Purpose

Let's get together in quiet prayer/meditation in a circle in front of City Hall.

Let's show the city what love there is in our movement and spread some good energy to the mayor's office (he needs it!)

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Voices of the City - Portland's 2012 Town Hall

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28th
  • Time: 1-4 pm
  • Location: PSU Hoffman Hall, 1833 SW 11th Ave
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Purpose

Help set the agenda for Portland's 2012 elections by meeting with the people of Portland, Portland community groups, and the candidates for Portland Mayor and City Council.

Bring your questions and concerns about Portland's future.

This is a BIG event. All candidates for Portland's Mayor and City Council are being invited. It's been endorsed by the GA, and it's being hosted by the Oregon Working Families Party and Occupy Portland. Please note: Occupy Portland does not and will not endorse any political parties or candidates. We continue to encourage people to take nonviolent direct action beyond voting and the electoral system.

You can learn more at pdxvoices.org.

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The Town Hall provides an opportunity to have the candidates listen to you, and provides a way to network with your fellow Portlanders about critical issues in our community.

The event runs from 1-4 pm, and is followed by a meeting of Portland's WFP chapter. This Town hall complements the Local Candidate Forum held on the day before.

1-2 pm
Public Issues Meeting

This public meeting enables everyone at the meeting to identify key issues important in Portland 2012 elections. Using a Spokescouncil style model, everyone present will work together to bring these issues directly to the candidates at this event.

2-4 pm
Candidates Forum

The candidates forum will focus on giving voice to members of the community and making the candidates speak to the real issues of real people, not pre-planned talking points. Testifiers from community groups will speak on issues ranging from municipal banking to job cuts and foreclosures.

4-5 pm
WFP Chapter Meeting

The Portland chapter of the Working Families Party will meet together directly after the event. The public is welcome to attend, but only WFP members are authorized to participate in the deliberations and decision making processes of the chapter.

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SE Neighborhood Assembly

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  • Date: 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month
  • Time: 3pm – 5pm
  • Location: SEIU Hall, SE 64th & Foster
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Purpose

Occupy movement supporters and occupiers from SE Portland that can meet up and discuss actions, proposals and events in our neighborhood.

Anyone is invited, all are welcome, invite your friends.

The time is now to get our neighborhoods and communities we live in involved as much as we can. The SE affinity group does NOT by any means condone violence, hate-speech, or abuse by it's members, be it verbal or physical.

This is a chance to meet up with people in your area neighborhood to promote discussion and change for the greater 99%.
The only requirements
  • Live in SE Portland
  • Want to better the world through direct action in coordination with Occupy Portland and Occupy Wall Street
  • Free sense of ideas and contributions you are willing to discuss in groups
  • Desire to meet new people.
We plan to meet twice a month until further notice, with work groups scheduled in between as needed.

Updates & such available at : https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupypdxse/

Other details
http://www.occupyportland.org


Bad Encounter Line PDX General Interest Meeting

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Time: 4:00pm until 6:00pm
  • Location: In Other Words 14 NE Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
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Purpose

Chicago's Bad Encounter Line (BEL) is a project and an organizing tool of Young Women's Empowerment Project, a youth-led grass-roots community group that uses harm reduction approach to support and empower girls and young women (including transgender girls and young women) involved in street economies.

BEL is a way for youth (girls, boys, and others) to report bad experiences they have had with institutions that are supposed to help them, such as social services, health care system, welfare system, police, etc. They use reports to share information among the youth, pressure these institutions to do better job providing assistance to youth, improve their staff training, and hold them accountable.

We think Portland needs a similar project. We are alarmed by increasingly police-centered approach that our public and non-profit institutions are taking to "protect" youth (e.g. shutting down Occupy Portland to evict youth so that they would be forced to return to youth services, outreach workers asked to "ride along" the police car for prostitution sweeps), and feel that a project similar to BEL would help counter the trend.

Some things to note
  • While we (the organizers) are currently a group of adults concerned about what other adults as well as social institutions are doing to the youth, we intend to operate from youth-centered, anti-adultism perspective. We are going to provide some resources at the meeting to help adult participants (including ourselves) learn how to become better allies for youth rights. In the meantime, some resources can be here in case you want to read ahead: http://www.nyln.org/​resources-3/​information-clearinghouse/​orc-adult-allies/
  • If you can, please read about YWEP/BEL before the meeting. The material can be found at http://ywepchicago.wordpress.com/
  • If you are a social worker or medical professional, we welcome you and your expertise--we love insurgent youth workers! But please come as an individual, not as a representative of your agency; nobody should attend the meeting on their employer's time. We want to keep this an organizing event, not a social service provider networking event.
  • If you are a member of the police force or other law enforcement agencies, please do not attend the meeting. Please contact the organizer privately if you want to help.
  • We want to support a formation of youth leadership team to facilitate youth-only discussion/organizing groups. Start a conversation with youth in your life who might be interested, and invite them to our meeting if you feel it is appropriate to do that.
Please spread the word!



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JANE: Abortion Past, Present and Future

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Time: 7:00pm until 10:00pm
  • Location: Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

Join Judith Arcana, a former member of JANE, for this special evening about the pre-Roe abortion underground.

The documentary “JANE” will be screened; also speaking will be Kate Weck of Oregon’s abortion fund. There will be books and zines for sale.

http://juditharcana.com/index.php/arc/jane/

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Feather Circle

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  • Date: Saturdays (temporary change Friday only on July 6, 2012)
  • Time: 7pm – 10pm
  • Location: Portland City Hall
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Purpose

Feather Circle (Facilitated by Rumorz)


Second Annual Tribute To Ruzbeh

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Time: 8:00pm until 1:00am
  • Location: Plan B 1305 SE 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97214-3562
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Purpose

FOR ALL THOSE WE LOST TO SUICIDE...

Our hope and goal of this event is to raise awareness to friends and loved ones in our lives who may also be suffering. Also to the individuals so they may see beyond the moment and realize how important their lives are, to themselves and to others. Donations will be given to...

OREGON PARTNERSHIP

http://www.orpartnership.org/web/getinvolved/donate.asp

MORMON TRANNYS * GRIM RITUAL BLACK BLACK THINGS * WARM GADGET *


Only $10 for a donation

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Welfare, In Cahoots, and Sorta Ultra play Twilight Bar and Cafe for FREE!

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  • Date: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Time: 8:30pm until 11:30pm
  • Location: Twilight Cafe & Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202-2348
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Purpose

Come down and enjoy your Saturday night with us! This is a FREE show, and is a guaranteed good time.
To hear Welfare

http://Welfare.bandcamp.com/ http://www.reverbnation.com/welfarepdx

To listen to Sorta Ultra

http://www.reverbnation.com/sortaultra

The show is at 8:30, and it is free at the Twilight! See you there!

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Sunday

Occupy Scavenger Hunt to Benefit Right 2 Dream Too

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  • Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012
  • Time: 11:00am until 2:00pm
  • Location: Meet at City Hall
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Purpose

Announcing the first ever Occupy Scavenger Hunt on Sunday January 29th at 11am.

The list of items we will be searching for will be made up of all the things that are needed at Right 2 Dream Too.

We will meet at City Hall, form teams and then hit the streets to try to locate as many items as we can.

When we meet back up we will donate all the booty to the camp.

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Sunday OccuPeace Meeting

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  • Date: Sundays
  • Time: 12:00pm until 3:00pm
  • Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
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Purpose

Join the Occupy Portland movement as we gather every Sunday at noon.

We will discuss and plan upcoming events and actions, hold trainings, support OWS nationwide, support each other and our community.

This will be an ongoing nonviolent effort to maintain focus and attention to the issues of inequality that 99% of America face as the result of corporate greed and corruption.

Families and all walks of life welcome. Let us come together in unity and use our voices in unison to bring about the changes needed in our economic system.

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Communications Cluster Party!

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Purpose

Any committee that wants to join in improving cross committee communication and start solving our challenges face to face is invited to our weekly party/meeting.

Anyone that wants to is invited to bring a snack or treat to share. Coffee will be available.


Women's Caucus weekly meeting

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Purpose

Women's Caucus weekly meeting.

Women’s Caucus invites all women to meetings.

Contact: opwomen@googlegroups.com

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Solutions Committee Meeting (for working groups only)

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  • Date: Sundays
  • Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
  • Location: The Occupy Portland Office at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, 1131 SE Oak, Portland
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Purpose

Meeting for working groups only. map

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Meet Tuesdays at 6:00 with the whole committee.


General Assembly

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  • Date: Sundays
  • Time: no more GAs on Sundays
  • Location: 'Starting July 1, GA will be held on Mondays at the Terry Schrunk Plaza!'
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Purpose

GA is now on Mondays effective July 2012.

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Presentation: Collectivizing Alberta Co-op

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  • Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012
  • Time: 7:00pm until 10:00pm
  • Location: Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

The staff at Alberta Grocery Co-op are dumping the bosses off their backs!

At this event we'll be hearing about the intense fight within Alberta's board, co-op membership and paid staff over workplace democracy.

This fight included retaliatory firings, workplace censorship and even a manager who called the cops on a former worker for "trespassing".

To fight back members and workers formed Members for a Democratic Co-op and forced a vote by consumer members about whether the staff would be democratically self-managed or have a (dictatorial) general manager.

Several other bylaw change proposals, including ones that guarantee free speech in the work place and that limit wage disparity were proposed.

The workers won!

Every single change was passed. Now they're faced with transitioning to collective management from a temporary general manager, the second hired to run the store in the chaos created by the fight over the co-op's fate. So we'll be hearing about how that's going and what their plan is. This should be super interesting!

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Occupy Beaverton Flogging Wally

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  • Date: January 29, 2012
  • Time: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Location: 8225 SW Apple Way Portland, OR 97225 - Old Zupans Grocery near Jesuit High School
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Purpose

Help stop the spread of Walmart Grocery Stores in the Portland Metro Area

Other details
Bring your Anti-Walmart signs and help stop the spread of the Walmart disease in our communities.

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Monday

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

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  • Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil


Protect Portland's Future, Laborers' L483 & SEIU L49 rally

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Purpose

On Monday, January 30th –join Laborers’ Local 483 members at the Bureau of Transportation to march to the Matt Dishman Community Center for a forum on cuts to services.

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On Monday, all Portland City Bureaus will submit their budget recommendations to City Council. Nearby Legacy Emmanuel hospital workers of SEIU Local 49 will join us to speak about imminent cuts to healthcare facilities across the state. Let’s talk about the consequences of CUTS to our community!

Imagine what rainy Portland will look like with your parks’ bathrooms shut, your streets and sewers full of debris, your children left with fewer indoor recreational centers to go, and your hospitals with even less staff to provide assistance to the sick and their visitors. The workers who keep Portland clean, moving, safe, and healthy need your support to PROTECT PORTLAND’S FUTURE!

  • 3:00pm: Rally at PBOT (2929 N. Kerby)
  • 3:45pm: Refreshments at Dishman Community Center (77 NE Knot St.)
  • 4:00pm: Forum on cutbacks and layoffs with impacted City maintenance and Legacy hospital workers.

We would really love to see you there!

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T.U.P.A.C. meeting

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  • Date: Mondays and Wednesdays
  • Time: 3pm – 4pm
  • Location: Central Library 801 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Meet to discuss upcoming events and actions.

The United Performing Arts Collective, T.U.P.A.C.

TUPAC is an expanding group of persona who use visual literary, performance art, and music to spread messages, hopes, dreams and goals of Occupy Portland to the greater 99%.

Join us in Dance, Expression, Inspiration, and Solidarity.

Contact
occupytupac@gmail.com
Request to join the listserv
occupytupac@googlegroups.com
Follow us on Twitter



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Food Not Bombs - SE Feed

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  • Date: Every Mon Tues Fri
  • Time: 6pm - 8pm (sometimes we get to the park @ 5:30, sometimes we stay later than 8pm)
  • Location: Colonel Summers Park - SE 17th & SE Taylor under the brick pavilion
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Purpose

To feed whoever is hungry, delicious, nutritious, free vegan food! & to prevent perfectly good food from going to the dump. Living off of societies waste is awesome!

Do you ever get hungry?
Do you like food or like to cook?
Well why don't we know each other yet? I think we're already in love.

We are available to help with any Occupy related, or radical event!

We request those that partake to bring their own container and utensil, if at all possible.
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Agenda Setting and Discussion

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  • Date: Mondays
  • Time: 7pm – 9pm
  • Location: St Francis (OPDX HQ, Che Room) - 1131 Southeast Oak St
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Purpose

Agenda Setting, Proposal Announcement and Discussion

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Proposals and agendas will then be posted online for the Thur and Sun meetings.


Dharma Circle

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  • Date: Mondays
  • Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Location: Friends Meeting House, Downstairs 4312 SE Stark, Portland, OR, 97214
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Purpose

Dharma Circles invite us to rest in the ease of the present moment.

Frosty leaves as non-dual teachings from the world’s wisdom traditions open into the spacious field of the heart. Reflection, silent sitting, and silent movement soften our boundaries and open awareness of our essential nature, nearer to us than our own breath.

All contemplative practices and levels of experience (or no experience) are welcome.

The door is open at 6:45. At 7:00 pm we begin with dialogue and dharma reflection, followed by an hour of silent practice.

Feel free to bring cushions, mats, or whatever is comfortable for your sitting practice (some cushions and chairs are provided).

Grounded in the heart, our actions grow from deep soil to yield fruits that enhance peace, justice, beauty, and balance in all that we do.

In a tumultuous world, maintaining a spacious heart requires attention, intention, and ever-deepening love.

Sangha or satsang is created anytime we are present with others for reflection or practice in the space of the heart, in service of truth. Sharing that intention, our dialogues invite us into reflection on our deepest Being, Mystery, Emptiness, the Beloved.

Every faith or no faith are equally welcome here.

We embrace human nature just as it is, holy and broken, perfect and imperfect at the same time, and steep together in the timeless present moment, where definitions slip away.

Gathering in satsang, sangha, or a community of practice provides a rich common ground as we travel in the terrain of the Heart.

Other details
$5-$10 suggested donation (All are welcome)

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Tuesday

TESTN Group Meeting

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 10am – 12pm
  • Location: Peace House on NE 18th and Tillamook
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Purpose

T.E.S.T.N Group (Training, Education, Strategy and Tactics for Nonviolence)

Hold a weekly meeting to discuss strategy and tactics of the movement while using our skills and experience to bring nonviolence into every aspect of our lives internally and externally through training and education.


Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally

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  • Date: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  • Time: 12pm – 2pm
  • Location: Justice Center, 1120 SW 3rd ave Portland, OR
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Purpose

Peaceable Protesters Court Date Rally Justice Center

Come down to the Justice Center and support those who've put their bodies on the line to protect our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble to address the grievances of the 99%.

Bring signs in support of the First Amendment. (Everyone's right to peaceably assemble)

We would really love to see you there!

Other details
See also: End the Camping Ban! 24/7 Daily Vigil


Building Intentional Community

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
  • Location: Peace House 2116 NE 18th Ave, PDX
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Purpose

Every Tuesday from 4pm to 5:30pm the Peace House (2116 NE 18th Ave, PDX) is hosting a work group to help interested Occupy participants to find ways to establish functioning intentional communities.

Drawing on their 25-year experience of living in community, members of the Peace House will share ideas, resources and "hand holding" with those who would like to get started.

This is an exercise in mutual sharing. No one is an expert in how to live together in community, but together all can learn what is needed.

Bring your vision of what kind of community you want to live in and share it with us.

Together, we will work to bring that vision into reality.


Solutions Full Committee Meeting

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Purpose

Meet Tuesdays at 4:30 with the whole committee at the Occupy Portland Office

All are welcome.

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Other details
Sunday meetings are for working groups only.


Occupy Portland Healthcare Committee

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  • Date: Tuesdays (except the third Tuesday of every month due to the JwJ meeting)
  • Time: 6pm
  • Location: PSU Smith Center (subject to change, please use the link under more info to verify meeting location)
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Purpose

This is a group that will focus on direct actions for Single Payer or Universal Healthcare.

We believe Oregon has a very good chance to be the next state after Vermont to form a Universal Healthcare system.

We will also be working with other organizations in organizing state-wide actions.

Healthcare is a human right!! Healthcare for all!! Everyone in, nobody out!!

occupypdxhealthcare@googlegroups.com

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Free Home Weatherization Workshop

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 31 2012
  • Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Location: Alice Ott SUN School, 12500 SE Ramona, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Free Home Weatherization Workshop

Participants find out how to implement simple measures to lower home energy use and learn how to install effective weatherization materials in their homes using only basic tools such as scissors and screwdriver.

Each participating income-qualified Portland household receives a free kit of materials worth over $150.

Each kit includes:

  • reusable vinyl storm windows
  • door weatherstripping
  • pipe insulation
  • a compact fluorescent light
  • and more.

Weatherization materials available for purchase for folks not eligible to receive a free kit - they can purchase materials from CEP. Money from the purchase goes to fund our programs.

We provide optional follow-up visits for interested workshop participants to answer specific questions on installation of workshop materials. We also ask for feedback from participants which help us to continually improve our program.

To register, call 503.284.6827 x108 or email energy@communityenergyproject.org



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Presented by Community Energy Project (CEP)

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Food Not Bombs - SE Feed

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  • Date: Every Mon Tues Fri
  • Time: 6pm - 8pm (sometimes we get to the park @ 5:30, sometimes we stay later than 8pm)
  • Location: Colonel Summers Park - SE 17th & SE Taylor under the brick pavilion
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Purpose

To feed whoever is hungry, delicious, nutritious, free vegan food! & to prevent perfectly good food from going to the dump. Living off of societies waste is awesome!

Do you ever get hungry?
Do you like food or like to cook?
Well why don't we know each other yet? I think we're already in love.

We are available to help with any Occupy related, or radical event!

We request those that partake to bring their own container and utensil, if at all possible.
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Movement Building Open Forum

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  • Date: Tuesdays
  • Time: 7pm – 9pm
  • Location: St Francis (OPDX HQ, Che Room) - 1131 Southeast Oak St
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Purpose

All are welcome to participate in this open forum!


Bikes For Humanity Volunteer Repair Clinics - Tuesdays

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  • Date: Every Tuesday
  • Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
  • Location: Community Exchange Bike School, 4038 SE Brooklyn St, Portland
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Purpose

Bikes For Humanity PDX(B4HPDX) is a community service project aimed at providing the public affordable refurbished bikes, repair classes & workshop space.

They have 100+ donated used bikes & need volunteers to catalog, clean and refurbish the bikes for bike adoption events.

Shop space has been donated for volunteer training and bike repair. Weekly volunteer clinics starting on Tuesday & Saturday.

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For full details see http://www.b4hpdx.org


Prisoner Letter Writing Night!

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
  • Time: 8:00pm until 11:00pm
  • Location: Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

Show your support for our political prisoners! Portland Animal Defense League and Oregon Jericho host this letter writing night and will provide all materials.

Just show up!

And if you writer a letter, you get 10% off your bill! BAM!



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EPIC CITY HALL SLUMBER PARTY

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  • Date: Tuesday, Jan 31 at 10:00pm until Wed Feb 1 at 8:30am

Purpose

We will be sleeping on the sidewalk in support of the basic human right to sleep, and in protest of the cities 'camping ban' which makes it illegal to create any sort of shelter (including a sleeping bag).

There are Portlanders (including families) who break the law every single night, and risk random arrest and loss of possessions, just simply by sleeping.

My goal is to make a chain of people that wraps around City Hall ensuring that members of City Council will have to literally walk over a body to get to work. Of course they will figure out a way to not have to do that, but it is still our goal!!!

We picked the 31st so that we would be in front of City Hall on the morning of February 1st when the city begins to fine Right2DreamToo, a self sustaining rest area on West Burnside.

The City of Portland's Bureau of Development Services (BDS) is fining a group that is providing emergency shelter to dozens of people in downtown for code violations related to recreational camping ordinances.

Right 2 Dream Too set up an emergency rest area for people who are houseless on Fourth and Burnside on National Homeless Day October 10, 2011. Since then R2DToo has provided shelter, food, referrals, and community for 50-70 people a night at no cost to the city.

On January 1, 2012 leaders of the group received notice that they would be fined $641.30 a month because they did not comply with city code relating to recreational camping. The group's leaders filed an appeal pointing out that this is not a recreational camping area

"There is a wide gulf between operating a recreational facility with the goal of sheltering people on vacation and operating a facility with the goal of sheltering people who can not otherwise obtain safe shelter and experience a restful sleep. It is illogical to lump them under the same set of administrative rules. We strongly object to language that suggests anything we are doing is in any way related to recreational activities."

The group offered work with the Bureau personnel to investigate the developmental permit process, and asked the City to waive penalties due to hardship. In a reply letter the Bureau of Development Services denied the appeal informed R2DToo that they must file an Administrative Review Appeal along with a fee of $1,215 by January 16, 2012 if they want to appeal further.

"Why should a group of people who sleep in tents, with no other housing option, be considered a recreational campground? ," asks Ibrahim Mubarak, one of the organizers of Right 2 Dream Too. "With hundreds of people on the street, and the numbers climbing daily, why is BDS fining us for trying to be safe and survive?"

Members of the group are undaunted, though. They will continue to talk with city officials to work out a solution while advocating for their rights.

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