Occupy Portland open working group to meet with Portland City Charter Review Commission

October 17, 2011
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Tuesday, October 18, City Hall (1221 SW 4th Ave) 6:30pm

On Sunday, October 16 the Occupy Portland General Assembly voted to support Ranked Choice Instant Runoff Voting, which is a way to help the smaller political parties gain a voice and for people to vote for who they really want without being afraid of ‘spoiling’ the vote (ie the 2000 Nader-Gore issue).

On Tuesday Oct 18 an official working group from Occupy Portland will be meeting at City Hall at 6:30pm Tuesday to bring this issue to the Portland Charter Review Commission, as an important first action to advocate for this cause. We need people to join us in making our voices heard. Please meet us in front of City Hall at 6:30pm if you are interested in joining and supporting this reform.

 

Useful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
http://www.portlandonline.com/chartercommission/

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6 Responses to Occupy Portland open working group to meet with Portland City Charter Review Commission

  1. Jim Clayton on October 17, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    I wish you would bring attention to the $5.00 charge Bank Of America is starting to charge people to use their Debit Card.
    A good example of nank and coporate greed by bank executives.
    Jim Clayton

  2. Lisa on October 17, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    I am very sads to see that these people who clain to have americans thoughts dreams and heart in best intrest are doing th opposite of what their movement is about. Please stop from delaying the daily essentials in our lives and taking away from teh important causes such as wounded soliders and cancer for an act that can be described in one owrd. selfish. You cannot make change by stopping daily living and preventing us from saving lives when you require our police force to be around for safety and non the less crowd xcontrol. You cannot to be to upset with big corporations if you are wearing north face jackets and using your aple ipad. Last but not least the internet is a HUGE part of wallstreet thank you for supporting it by posting your daily blogs. Most people are happy your speaking up, but after this long not even the mayor is paying attention anymore. Mothers take your babies home into warmth imbrace them love them dont sacrafice their health for your selfishness. There are better more uplifting and safe and impactful ways destoring our city is not one of them.

  3. cambryn on October 17, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    I’d strongly suggest to have a ‘retweet’ suggestion in order for people to click thru and have the ability to retweet a snippet or a bit.ly back to your url in order to keep traffic on topic: #ows @occupyPDX or #occupyportland …that way it creates more visibility on twitter for people to return back to your webpage as well as twitter for the tags. Your fb fan page can do the same is have a page where people can retweet quickly what they’d like to directly off of reading your twitter feed via one of the tabs to the left hand side of the page.

    Twitter has something funky going on w/ #ows lately and I’ve been tracking it. It’s no algorithm. But extra efforts it will display their flaws or creates a huge non-removable awareness on twitter daily.

    I’m more than happy to also volunteer my time :~)

  4. cambryn on October 17, 2011 at 11:45 pm

    p.s. an extra feature that petitions have not just your twitter feed only to the right hand side..where you fill the petition,the email you or give you and auto-twitter option after signing…that’d be great for occupy!!!

  5. annette pepin on October 18, 2011 at 12:00 am

    I will put it simply: shame on those harming that once peaceful beautiful park with an incredible diversity of trees, providing a spot in the city for respite and calm. Now it is trashed, over run with garbage and the pungent smell of too many people and dogs. I have been by it several times over the course of this event and everyday it is more degraded. The occupiers should take lessons from the homeless camp over near Chinatown. I was at first in agreement with the initial cause but as with many great causes they consume themselves with arrogance. Here is an idea, occupy another part of Portland and see how your ideals stand up to the real issues of justice and sharing instead of the carnival that now exists in a park once utilized by all segments of society. Who will restore this park? Anyone of you ever go to Burning Man? That place was always restored afterwards, all you folks occupying ready to do the hard work?

  6. Ivan Jacobs on October 18, 2011 at 1:05 am

    Awesome!

    This is a great power-building exercise if nothing else. In my opinion this is the sort of winnable, no-brainer reform that will go far in recruiting more folks and making a concrete local impact in line with the principles of the movement.

    The GA notes indicate that there was an request for a resource for more information on IRV. I’d recommend fairvote.org: http://www.fairvote.org/instant-runoff-voting/

    Here’s a YouTube from FairVote that explains IRV as well as I’ve seen it anywhere:
    http://youtu.be/wqblOq8BmgM

    Thrilled to see this. Sorry my work schedule precludes me from participating more directly.

    Can we find out where folks send written testimony?

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