-Medics need a hand moving supplies to a new location. Please contact Jim or Astrid: occupymedtentATgmail.com -Women’s Caucus invites all self-identified women to meetings, Location TBA, 5:30 Thursday nights, 1PM Sundays, contact: opwomen@googlegroups.com -Action Committee invites all to meetings, 5:30 Wednesdays, OP Office @ St. Francis, also requesting more help with immigrant outreach actioncommitteepdxATgooglegroups.com ...
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Dec. 29 Spokescouncil Announcements
Support the City Resolution to End Corporate Personhood
The following statement is from the Solutions Committee, supporting the General Assembly resolution stating that Occupy Portland wishes to help end corporate personhood. If you are familiar with the proposal, you can skip the background information and click here to sign this petition, now. Background: On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens...
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1/8 2PM March and Rally to Save The Post Office
Save Saturday Delivery & Door-to-Door Mail Delivery Save Community Post Offices March & Rally Downtown Portland Sunday, Jan. 8th, 2 – 3:30pm Rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square March to Portland Main Post Office (NW Hoyt @ Broadway) *** FAMILY FRIENDLY, BRING CHILDREN *** Congress is getting ready to vote on HR 2309 & S...
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12/26: This Week’s Agenda for G.A, Spokescouncil, New Working Groups
Since the passing of the new schedule last week, agenda setting occurs on Mondays at 7 PM at the St. Francis Office space. All are welcome to attend and to bring their proposals. This is not where your proposal will be worked on. It is where the group will decide collectively if the proposal...
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Solidarity with Occupy Eugene
***UPDATE 12/23*** Occupy Eugene is currently working to clean up the park and is re-assembling in the park blocks for a General Assembly tonight. *** Occupy Eugene is threatened with eviction tonight. This is a press release from their website:
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Occupy May Day (Together)
When: The First of May 2012 Where: The National Monument in Washington DC 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...
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Sunday Dec. 18th, 2PM-4PM @ Director Park: anti-NDAA Rally and March
We marched Saturday and we’re marching again Sunday. Please join us at 2PM in Director Park. Bring friends, bring family, bring signs. Occupy Portland is making sure that all Portlanders are aware of the injustice that will soon be passing as law, unless President Obama vetoes the bill. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The National Defense Authorization...
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Citizens Against Indefinite Detention (NDAA)
WHEN: Saturday, December 17 @ 6pm WHERE: Director’s Park AGENDA PLAN: 6:00PM – 7:00PM: We will have an open forum and announcement. Crucial information about the bill is presented to everyone. We will clarify any questions, the purpose of this march, and what we can do to change things. 7:00PM – 10:00PM: We will...
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Statement on Academic Freedom and Teachers’ Professional Judgment
The following is a message as we received it—verbatim—from Portland Public School (PPS) faculty in response to a panel from Occupy Portland being removed from Astor School. I’ve circulated a statement drafted by Portland teachers today during my lunch hour. The more I think of it, the more ridiculous this is and I’m using...
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