SE Portland Neighborhood Assembly

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Purpose: This page is for providing internet link access to information located on various wiki pages and internet sites for both the SE Portland Neighborhood Assembly and for Occupy Portland. It also lists events and meetings primarily pertaining to SE Portland Neighborhood Assembly and the SE, along with Occupy Portland actions.


Meetings: SE Portland Neighborhood Assembly meetings are normally to be held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month at the SEIU Hall at SE 64th & Foster from 3pm-5pm. please refer to SE Events/Meetings below for specific assembly meeting details.


SE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLY'S NEXT MEETINGS ARE SAT. APRIL 14 & 28, 3-5PM AT THE BOB WHITE THEATER AT 6423 FOSTER ROAD NEXT TO BAR CARLO


SE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLY'S PRIMARY COMMUNICATION LINK - PortlandGeneralAssembly.org


SE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLY'S AGENDAS AND MEETING NOTES - PortlandGeneralAssembly.org


SE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLY'S FLYERS and HANDOUTS - Wiki Page


CHECK OUT ALL OF PORTLAND'S NEIGHBORHOOD ASSEMBLIES - Wiki Page


ADDITIONAL WIKI PAGES AND WEB LINKS

1) ADDITIONAL SE NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS

2) GENERAL ASSEMBLY and NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS

3) OCCUPY PORTLAND LINKS


Upcoming SE Events/Meetings

SE Occupy PDX Neighborhood Assembly 3/24/2012

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Purpose

We plan to meet twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays until further notice, with work groups scheduled in between as needed. The time is now to get our neighborhoods and the communities we live in involved as much as we can to promote discussion and change for the greater 99%. This is a chance to meet up with people from your area to decide together what we can do in our neighborhoods. Turn your concerns into actions and discuss future plans. We do NOT by any means condone violence, hate-speech, or abuse by our members, be it verbal or physical.


HANFORD: North America's Fukushima

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  • Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012
  • Time: 12:00pm until 3:00pm
  • Location: John Dam Plaza, Richland, WA 99352

Purpose

The purposes of this event are:

  • Educational
    • Nuclear: To educate the community about the dangers of the groundwater contamination with weapons grade plutonium and other radioactive isotopes at the Hanford site and it's eventual release into the Columbia river, the dangers of nuclear energy as it relates to the Columbia Generating Station plant(a similar design to the Fukushima plant), and the problems with the delays and safety concerns at the vitrification plant.
    • Safer and Cheaper Alternatives: We will be discussing alternatives to nuclear power and the future of energy production in the United States moving away from nuclear power and towards less problematic and less costly sources.
  • Communication

To bring all concerned parties to the table to discuss the challenges and gather feedback from current, past, and future generations.

    • Speakers: ??
  • Inquisitive

We will begin an inquiry to the connection between large donations by the contractors at Hanford(CH2mHill) to our elected officials who are responsible for oversight and have generously granted excessive amounts of money and endless deadline extensions to the corporations.

Background

The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government.

The Hanford site represents two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume.

Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup. The most significant challenge at Hanford is stabilizing the 53 million U.S. gallons (204,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste stored in 177 underground tanks. About a third of these tanks have leaked waste into the soil and groundwater.[55] As of 2008, most of the liquid waste has been transferred to more secure double-shelled tanks; however, 2.8 million U.S. gallons (10,600 m3) of liquid waste, together with 27 million U.S. gallons (100,000 m3) of salt cake and sludge, remains in the single-shelled tanks.[5] That waste was originally scheduled to be removed by 2018. The revised deadline is 2040.[53] Nearby aquifers contain an estimated 270 billion U.S. gallons (1 billion m3) of contaminated groundwater as a result of the leaks.[56] As of 2008, 1 million U.S. gallons (4,000 m3) of highly radioactive waste is traveling through the groundwater toward the Columbia River. This waste is expected to reach the river in 12 to 50 years if cleanup does not proceed on schedule.[5] The site also includes 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste.[56]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/story/2012-01-25/hanford-nuclear-plutonium-cleanup/52622796/1

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Occupy May Day (Together)

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  • Date: The First of May 2012

Purpose

Members of Occupy Portland, local organizations, and any individual who wishes to voice their grievances relating to greed and corruption to our national government.

Why?

Since the end of the nineteenth century, May 1st (or May Day) has become synonymous with International Worker’s Day or Labour Day in many countries. Historically it has been known as a day of political demonstrations around the world. Just after the start of spring, when the weather begins warming up, we encourage the many that would be reluctant to brave the cold weather and snowy months that DC bares through the winter to Occupy Together through the summer and early fall to petition grievances against a corrupt system of government.

Global, 99 Occupy the World
NO WORK - NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO BANKING - NO TRADING
THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS

We are calling on all people of the world to start planning NOW for a Global Strike.

The goal is to shut down commerce worldwide and show the 1% we will not be taken for granted, we will not be silenced, WE WILL NOT MOVE until our grievances are redressed.

GENERAL STRIKE AND BOYCOTT CALLED!
  • FOR IM/MIGRANT RIGHTS
  • FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND LABOR RIGHTS
  • FOR PEACE WITH JUSTICE
  • FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES AND AN END TO THE POLICE STATE
  • FOR HOUSING, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH CARE AS HUMAN RIGHTS
  • FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUITY
Every continent, every country, every state, every city will stand up.

Labor and workers are under attack by the 1%.

Occupy stands Immigrants and with Labor both organized and not.

Unions and union rights are what made our working class strong.

Every benefit we have as working people has come from the struggles of organized labor and immigrants fighting for their rights. Now they are trying to destroy our bargaining rights, they want their greedy hands on our pensions. They don't have enough already? ENOUGH.

A DAY FOR MIGRANT RIGHTS, LABOR RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS.
STOP FORECLOSURES!!!

We demand good jobs and good pay for everyone on the planet. Citizen of the country they work in or not. Outsourcing will no longer be tolerated by the so called "job creators" for cheap labor. All human beings deserve a living wage.

Education, Housing and Healthcare are human rights NOT "entitlements."



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Ongoing Events/Meetings


Upcoming Actions

Prior SE Events/Meetings

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