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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

(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.

Other details
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.
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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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FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Saturday

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...



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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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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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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

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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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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 The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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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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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

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

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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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Monday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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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.

Other details
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

Other details
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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FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Tuesday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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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



Other details
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.
More detailed and important information


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.

Other details
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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Wednesday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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Occupy the Legislature-Occupy Oregon General Assembly

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  • Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
  • Time: 7:00am until 5:30pm
  • Location: State capital of Oregon, Salem Or
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Purpose

Coordinating information about statewide Occupations gathering at the state capitol for Feb 1st. We will have hospitality at IkeBox, across the street at 299 Chemeketa NE 8-5, buy or bring food and warmup/plan for our big statewide event

http://www.facebook.com/ORGeneralAssembly

Solidarity!



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Right 2 Dream Too Rally at City Hall

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Purpose

Waive the fines on Right 2 Dream Too!

Other details
The City of Portland's Bureau of Development Services (BDS) says R2DToo must comply with State of Oregon Recreational Campground Ordinances or pay monthly fines. The initial fine is $641.30, and doubles every two months after that.

We are not a campground. Right 2 Dream Too provides refuge and a safe space to rest or sleep undisturbed for dozens of people who are experiencing homelessness in downtown Portland at no cost to the city. Hundreds of people sleep on the streets of Portland every night, there are often no beds available at shelters, and it can take months or even years to get into transitional or permanent affordable housing.

Join us as we ask the City of Portland to waive the fines imposed on Right to Dream Too and support our work providing a safe space to rest or sleep to people in our community who would otherwise be under bridges or in doorways.

Called by the people of Right 2 Dream Too and Right 2 Survive

Right 2 Survive is a group of houseless and formerly houseless individuals dedicated to teaching about and defending the human, civil, and constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness.

Right 2 Dream Too provides refuge and a safe space to rest or sleep undisturbed for Portland's unhoused community who cannot access affordable housing or shelter. R2DToo was established on World Homeless Action Day, October 10, 2011.

Right2DreamToo@gmail.com

Endorsers include
Sisters of the Road, Jobs with Justice, Portland Central American Solidarity Committee, Rev. Kate Lore

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Occupy Portland goes to Salem!

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  • Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
  • Time: 8:00am until 8:00pm
  • Location: 900 Court Street Northeast, Salem, OR
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Purpose

Occupy Portland will be joining dozens of Occupations from around Oregon to rally in Salem for the opening of the 2012 legislative session. This session will last for 35 days, with a focus on finding $3.6 Billion in budget cuts.

Throughout the day there will be workshops, opportunities to coordinate & advocate for our causes and a GA to coordinate further actions for this session.

Bring your signs, ideas, affinity groups, causes and creative energy to help expose ALEC-initiated bills, fight austerity on the working class and help take back control of our government!

Occupiers will gather at the St. Francis office (1131 SE Oak St, Portland) at 8am, buses will be available to take people at 9am. The rally in Salem begins at 10am.

Occupy Portland will be there advocating against corporate personhood, for community rights, environmental justice and education reform among other causes.

Other details
Email OccupyFeb1@gmail.com for questions, to book a spot on the buses or to offer space in your ride.

http://occupyportland.org/2012/01/22/feb-1-occupy-portland-salem-occupy-legislature/

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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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Action Committee

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Purpose

Action Committee invites everyone to attend and participate in meetings.

Other details
Contact at: actioncommitteepdx@googlegroups.com


Occupy the Pub at the End of the Universe

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  • Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
  • Time: 8:30pm until 11:30pm
  • Location: PUB at the END of the UNIVERSE 4107 SE 28th Avenue (@ corner of Gladstone), Portland, OR 97202
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Purpose

Come join our Patchwork Family as we Occupy SE Portland at the Pub at the End of the Universe!!! NO COVER!!! DONATIONS WELCOME
  • 9pm-9:45pm Jonny Hazard
  • 10:00pm-11:30pm Patchwork Family
  • 11:45pm-12:30am Bob Heyer



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FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Thursday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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Museum of Contemporary Craft - Free!

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  • Date: First Thursday of every month
  • Time: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
  • Location: Museum of Contemporary Craft‎ 724 Northwest Davis St Portland, OR 97209
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Purpose

Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) is a vibrant center for investigation and dialogue that helps expand the definition and exploration of craft.

The Exhibition Galleries, 4500 square feet on two floors, at any time feature multiple exhibitions that look to the present, future and past of craft through the focused viewpoint of today.

Along with featuring some of the leading contemporary national and international artists, exhibitions frequently draw from the rich archives of the MoCC collection, a public legacy of over 1000 objects that documents the active role of both the Museum and the Pacific Northwest in the evolution of craft over the last seven decades.

The Gallery represents craft artists from across the nation working in ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber and mixed media.

Gallery artists routinely visit the Museum for public gallery talks and hands on demonstrations.



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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.

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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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3D Center of Art and Photography

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  • Date: First Thursdays
  • Time: 6 - 9 pm
  • Location: 3D Center of Art and Photography 1928 NW Lovejoy St Portland, Oregon 97209
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Purpose

First Thursdays FREE for everyone!

The world's only art gallery, museum and theater dedicated to the art and science of 3D!

About

The 3D Center of Art and Photography, a non-profit museum/gallery, features the best in antique and contemporary 3D imagery. The Center houses everything from antique stereocards to View-Master, contemporary 3D photography, lenticulars, anaglyphs, and computer generated 3D art.

Every visitor to the 3D Center learns the history of 3D imaging and the three main methods of viewing in 3D.

All visitors receive a new pair of 3D glasses (red/blue) and information on how to make your very own 3D photographs with your digital camera, your computer, the internet and your 3D glasses!

  • Includes entry to the 3D Center Movie Theater where you will experience 3D Movie shorts by artists from around the world!
  • Tours usually take 45 minutes to one hour.

Find us on Facebook

VIDEO TOUR OF THE 3D CENTER

Other details
Youth 14 years and younger and "Friends of the Center" are always FREE!

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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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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.



Other details
http://occupyportland.org/


FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Friday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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(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.


Portland Children's Museum Free

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  • Date: First Fridays of every month
  • Time: 4-8 p.m.
  • Location: 4015 SW Canyon Road Portland, OR 97221 (Across from Oregon Zoo)
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Purpose

Target Free First Friday Night - Come enjoy the Museum for free between 4-8pm!

The mission of Portland Children’s Museum is to inspire imagination, creativity and the wonder of learning in children and adults by inviting moments of shared discovery.

WHAT YOU’LL FIND HERE

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Museum members & children under age 1 are always FREE!

We encourage you to take public transportation but in case you drive, there is a $2 parking fee.

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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


FEBRUARY FESTIVITIES & PROSPERITY!

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  • Date: Friday, February 3, 2012
  • Time: 6:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO) 700 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97217
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Purpose

Join us on our Next First Friday in February as we discuss as a community how we can be prosperous and support each other.

We will have special guest speakers on what it means to bid for city contracts, the value of networking and how we do business as communities of color.

Special food vendor will be Wambui from Spice of Africa.

Please bring a friend who may be interested in getting involved with CIO!!

Our musical entertainment will be CIO's very own Olimpia Trusty!

Not only is she our bookkeeper, but she is also a professional violinist and will serenade you from classical to other favorite tunes. Truly a treat!

Other details
The Center for Intercultural Organizing is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multi-racial, multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights.

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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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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.


FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Saturday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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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...



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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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Direct Action Training For Everyone!

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  • Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
  • Time: 11:00am until 6:00pm
  • Location: St. Francis, 1131 Southeast Oak Street (Between 11th & 12th on Oak near Red and Black, Portland, OR
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Purpose

Want to learn how to make Civil Disobedience and Direct Action more fun, safer and more productive?

This will be a day of training in beginning to advanced direct action skills aimed at building capacity and relationships for the national day of action on F29. While the thrust of the day will be trainings, we cannot build the world we want to live in without building community. So, there will fun socializing and community time throughout the day as well.

SCHEDULE

11:30 AM – 4PM (with 1-hour lunch break) Non-violent direct action: This workshop is *highly recommended* for activists wanting to engage in civil disobedience and direct action or those new to these tactics. It will cover history of direct action, affinity groups, action planning, conflict management and fun action role plays.

11:30 AM – 12:30PM Media for direct action: Learn how to get media to your event, create effective press releases, talk to the media and get your message out to the public.

12:30PM – 1:30PM

Blockades: Forest defenders and climate justice activists share tools to make actions more effective and activists very difficult to remove, from blocking roads to building entrances to… let your imagination run wild.

1:30PM – 2:30PM

Lunch! (donation suggested)

2:30PM – 4PM

Strategic Action Planning: Tools to make our actions more effective and achieve our goals with less burnout. This workshop could change your life.

4PM – 5PM

Coffee Break + Affinity Group Meet-up:

5PM – 5:30PM

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): Why is ALEC the target of this day of action? Learn more about the way they control our democracy behind closed doors and how to stop them!

5:30pm – 6PM

Legal Support For Activist/Know Your Rights! Lead by lawyers supporting the Occupy movement, learn the rights you have when engaging with the police and how to support people risking arrest. People considering engaging in or supporting civil disobedience should attend this workshop.

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There will be a Benefit Party at the Red and Black Cafe across the street after the training.

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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


Winterfolk 24 - Your Favorite Folk Fest!

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  • Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012
  • Time: 6:00pm until 9:00pm
  • Location: Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., Portland, OR 97202
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Purpose

Winterfolk is one of our most popular events of the year!

Tickets are on sale now for $28 in advance and $30 at the door, and can be purchased at the Aladdin Theater Box Office and through Ticketmaster.

Nationally-acclaimed folk star and Winterfolk favorite Tracy Grammer will headline for us again this year and will be joined by lots of other amazing performers!

The much-loved guitar and studio-time raffle is back this year too!

A stunning Woodland Pro Folk Sunburst guitar (value $1,000) will be up for grabs in the guitar raffle, generously donated by Artichoke Music. The raffle also includes one day (10 hours) of recording time at Billy Oskay’s Big Red Studio (value $750).

Doors are at 6pm and the music begins at 7pm. For lots more details - visit our website: http://bit.ly/winterfolk24

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Sisters Of The Road exists to build authentic relationships and alleviate the hunger of isolation in an atmosphere of nonviolence and gentle personalism that nurtures the whole individual, while seeking systemic solutions that reach the roots of homelessness and poverty to end them forever.

http://sistersoftheroad.org/

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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)


FREE CHALUPA COUPON COLLECTION @ Blazer games

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  • Date: Blazer games at Rose Garden
  • Time: 9:30pm until 10:30pm
  • Location: Rose Garden One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227
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Purpose

In an effort to put food in hungry bellies, we will be gathering at all exits of the Rose Garden after the Blazer/Laker game and asking people to donate their FREE CHALUPA coupons, which we will then donate to homeless outreach programs.

20,000 people per night go to Blazer games if we only collect 10% of the possible stubs we still get 2,000 free chalupas there are 2,000 people sleeping on the streets of Portland every night.

Events like this won't cure hunger, but it will be putting a finger in a leaky dam and raise awareness about the problem in general.

WE WILL BE DOING THIS AT EVERY BLAZER HOME GAME

Hopefully with our new uptempo offense we will hit chalupas every night!

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Sunday

Occupy The EGT: Join the Caravan

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  • Date: Sun Jan 29 at 7:30am until Wed Feb 15 at 10:30am

Purpose

Sign up here for announcements and coordination: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dG83Q2hkSzFlZVBtMTlKWV9wV084cFE6MQ

text @noegtpdx to 23559 for late-breaking announcements.

One of the most important labor struggles of our generation is happening in our backyard. Just one hour away in Longview, WA, the 1% is making an historic grab to break the labor movement. EGT has broken the 80-year-long standing agreement with ILWU, a union well known for its role in supporting the struggles of 99%.

Join Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Longview, and a growing number of unions and organizations in mobilizing to Longview as soon as we receive the call for solidarity. This is a massive mobilization and all eyes are on us in Portland to help provide housing and transportation for supporters from as far away as Florida!

Help spread the word far and wide.

"A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head in Longview, Wash. Sometime in the coming days and weeks, the multinational conglomerate EGT Development is expected to attempt to load its first ship with grain at a newly built state-of-the-art terminal that isn't using International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 21 labor, in defiance of a contract that has been in place for almost a century." - http://www.occupytheegt.org/

"The International Longshoremen Workers Union is engaged in a crucial struggle at the Port of Longview, Washington, where a multinational company, EGT, is attempting to operate as the West Coast’s only non-ILWU facility, despite promising otherwise when it received millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to build its grain exporting terminal. Now, as the first ship makes its way to the port to fill up with grain bound for Asia, it is reported that Coast Guard ships and helicopters will be used to escort this ship. Use of our tax dollars and our military to assist such union busting is horrifying." - Letter from the SCFL to President Obama

Spread the word!



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OMSI $2 Day

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  • Date: First Sunday of every month
  • Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  • Location: OMSI 1945 SE Water Ave. Portland, OR 97214 (located on the east bank of the Willamette River, just south of downtown Portland)
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Purpose

OMSI visitors pay only $2 per person for general admission on the first Sunday of each month, as well as discounted admission of $5 to the Planetarium, OMNIMAX Theater and USS Blueback submarine.

OMSI seeks to inspire wonder.

We seek to inspire wonder by providing engaging science learning experiences because we value:

  • Learning: teaching, asking questions, sharing, experimentation
  • Creativity: making (new) mistakes, sharing ideas, innovating, pushing the envelope
  • Integrity: publishing visitor comments, staying open to criticism, having pride in our work, presenting accurate science, supporting honest communication

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is a scientific, educational, and cultural resource center dedicated to improving the public's understanding of science and technology. OMSI makes science exciting and relevant through exhibits, programs, and experiences that are presented in an entertaining and participatory fashion.

Special weekend and ongoing programs for families, teens, and adults.

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Parking $3.00, FREE for members


SuperBowl 46

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  • Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012
  • Time: 10:00pm until 1:00am
  • Location: Blitz Tigard 10935 SW 68th Place, Tigard, OR 97223
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Purpose

Call to reserve you tables for our Super Bowl Party!

Giving away a HD Big Flat screen TV, Corona Burton Surfboard and many other wonderful prizes!

More details to come!

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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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When Workers Fight Back: Sit-Downs, Strikes, & Occupations

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  • Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012
  • Time: 2:00pm until 3:30pm
  • Location: Southeast Uplift 3534 SE Main Street, Portland, OR 97214
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Purpose

The year 2012 marks the 75th anniversary of the great sit-down strike wave of 1937.

It also begins the second year of the Occupy movement, which has more than a few similarities to the time when hundreds of thousands of Americans occupied their workplaces.

The Occupy movement has engaged workers around the world in activity against the ruling classes and corporations that exploit us.

Join us for a discussion of the militant tactics of 1937, the role of revolutionary socialists in the struggle, and the applications to our movement, from Longview to Nigeria today.

Readings

http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/18/when-workers-occupied

http://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2012/01/03/75th-anniversary-1937-sit-down

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Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization http://www.portlandsocialists.org

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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.


Play Healthcare Jeopardy! Boycott Commercial Bowl Sunday!

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  • Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012
  • Time: 5:00pm until 8:00pm
  • Location: 6519 SE Foster Road PDX
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Purpose

Do you really want to watch how pharmaceutical companies spend our healthcare dollars during a football game?
Did you know we give tax subsidies to these companies so that they can "create new drugs?"

Perhaps they don't need those subsidies.... they might be using them to inundate us with Viagra Ads. Which, if I might say, are much more uncomfortable to watch with the fam than Janet Jackson's nipple!

Maybe those subsidies should have gone to lowering the price of medication that is needed every day by the people right here in your neighborhood.

Did you also know that the U.S. and New Zealand are the only developed countries that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise.... junk food for thought.

Bring some food to share and learn why our nation is torn apart by a greedy healthcare non system and find out what we can really do to change it. :)

Healthcare for the 100%! We don't need to leave anybody out! Everybody's IN!



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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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