Day 25

16 Responses to Day 25

1. 

   Shawn of the dread-locks on November 2, 2011 at 9:02 am

   Questions that need answers.

   Where are the general assembly notes from 10/30 and 10/31? Transparency people!

   You seem to be censoring postings and replies…lots of missing posts.
   Transparency people!

   I am confused, how is the 1% calculated? Is it annual income, total financial wealth (as Michael Moore cited) or total assets? Also, if its’ annual income is the staring point, 350K or somewhere in the 500′sK? Just want to know who are the people I should throwing rocks at.

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     eric on November 5, 2011 at 7:38 am

     Definitely throw rocks at Michael Moore – lots of them.

2. 

   eric on November 2, 2011 at 11:20 am

   Nobody has forced you to bank with Bank of America or any other bank for that matter. Don’t like that Bank of America lends money for coal power, then don’t use the power that’s created by the company. What you dimwits don’t seem to understand is that nobody is forcing you to do anything – you can choose to buy or not buy any product or service that is out there. Furthermore, you don’t need a 1%er to provide you a job, you are welcome to start your own business.

3. 

   janice on November 2, 2011 at 1:20 pm

   Great protest and thank you for keeping up the great work. Does anyone know where the city of Portland and the counties bank? We should insist that the city and county we live in MOVE OUR MONEY to a not-for-profit community bank.

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     Lori Ann on November 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm

     We should insist that the city of Portland stop using OUR MONEY to support the infrastructure of Occupy Portland.

     A quarter of a million dollars now and growing at the rate of about $1500/day.

     $250,000 wasted

     Posted at 1452 on Nov. 2, let’s see how long it takes to get this approved and posted.

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       Janice on November 2, 2011 at 10:39 pm

       Just think about how much you are paying to reckless bankers who bought your elected officials to pass laws that allowed them to get too big to faiil. How much of our democracy has been boutght and paid for by a few powerful people at the top? How much is your country worth to you?
       Are you as equally outraged by trillions spent on unnecessary war and tax dollars given in corporate welfare?

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         lori on November 3, 2011 at 9:48 am

         Yes, I am and it is possible to be outraged at both the corrosive power of major banks, wall street and multi-national corporations AND the wasted energy, dollars and intellect being poured into the current state of the Occupy Movement. I am outraged at Occupy because you are unfocused and ineffective. You are creating local economic and relationship problems in one of the few cities in the US where the vast majority of the population gets it. Their support is eroding daily, yet you stick with the arcane 60′s methodology which no longer applies. HOW DO YOU ENGAGE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THIS?

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         lori on November 3, 2011 at 10:01 am

         Oh yes, regarding democracy being bought. Some interesting numbers from the ’08 data at Open Secrets. Campaign and other political contributions.

         National Education Assoc. – 56.2 million, Service Employees Union – 30.4 million, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers – 34.2 million, Laborers Union, 31.8 million, Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-40.7 million. Everyone is buying because everyone is selling including DeFazio and Blumenhaur.(I voted for these yahoos)

         BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ARE IN BED WITH, YOU ARE SLOWLY BEING CO-OPTED.

4. 

   faciLITator on November 2, 2011 at 1:46 pm

   My parody of the “Gunpowder Plot” poem:
   Remember Remember the 5th of November?
   The “big bankster” withdrawal plot?
   Here is the answer,
   The “big bankster transfer”,
   Will never be forgot!
   Remember Remember the 5th of November (and tell your friends)!

   A little ditty for Nov. 5 (or before) when people withdraw their money from the “bailed-out banks” (sung to the tune of “M is for Mother”—imagine how that would be if everyone sang, or at least hummed this, standing in the “Nexteller” line):
   — MM is for MY MONEY –
   MM is for the Many, Many times you’ve screwed me;
   O is for the Other times you’d try;
   but N is for it’s Never gonna happen;
   E is for here’s Exactly why –
   Y is YES, big bankster, give me all MY MONEY;
   then I’ll simply turn and wave good-bye.

5. The Occupations Report: 11/02 | Occupy Together on November 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   [...] Occupy Portland Occupy Portland is standing in solidarity with Occupy Oakland’s General Strike today. The group is holding a “Say NO to Police Violence!” rally at 4:30pm at Terry Schrunk Plaza. Speakers include members of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War and will feature a performance by local hip hop artist, Mic Crenshaw. At 5:30pm Occupy Portland will march with veterans through downtown. Earlier this week, the group launched a zombie attack on Bank of America https://occupyportland.org/2011/11/01/day-25/. [...]

6. 

   K. Shawn Edgar on November 2, 2011 at 11:12 pm

   Occupy brains! Good rallying cry?

7. The Occupations Report: 11/02 | The 99 Percent - Occupy Wall Street on November 3, 2011 at 1:01 am

   [...] Occupy PortlandOccupy Portland is standing in solidarity with Occupy Oakland’s General Strike today. The group is holding a “Say NO to Police Violence!” rally at 4:30pm at Terry Schrunk Plaza. Speakers include members of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War and will feature a performance by local hip hop artist, Mic Crenshaw. At 5:30pm Occupy Portland will march with veterans through downtown. Earlier this week, the group launched a zombie attack on Bank of America https://occupyportland.org/2011/11/01/day-25/. [...]

8. 

   Informer on November 3, 2011 at 8:44 pm

   http://webmedia.bankofamerica.com/environment/pdf/COAL_POLICY.pdf

9. 

   Oryguntransplant on November 5, 2011 at 8:44 pm

   @Janice:Are you kidding me?
   What the heck is a “not for profit bank?”
   Why would anyone start a business unless it was to make money? Did your parents go to work for a paycheck or because they were just nice people helping out?

   This protest has lost all respect. It is now nothing more than a pity party.

   The 60′s called. They want their hippies back, LOL.

10. 

    TaterSalad on November 6, 2011 at 11:48 am

    What about this article. Our President is now giving out work to foreign people using American tax dollars?

    http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blogs/federal-stimulus-money-being-used-to-hire-new-foreign-workers

11. 

    TaterSalad on November 6, 2011 at 11:49 am

    Michael Moore is a hypocrite and a 1%..er! He is a pure as-hole!