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The Occupy Portland General Assembly endorsed this event on January 8, 2012.
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 discuss further actions for this session.
Bring your signs, ideas, affinity groups and creative energy to help expose ALEC-initiated bills, fight austerity for 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.
Email OccupyFeb1@gmail.com for questions, to book a spot on the buses or to offer space in your ride. For more information go to: http://tinyurl.com/OccupyFeb1
Occupy Portland will be there advocating against corporate personhood, for community rights, environmental justice and education reform among other causes. The bat signal has already made an appearance.
Press Release
Event Press Contact:
Imre Ilyes
971-678-3015
Occupy the Legislature: Occupy Portland goes to Salem
Caravan and protest planned in response to the austerity budget and the inability of our state representatives to create meaningful change.
Portland, OR – The Occupy Portland General Assembly endorsed this event on January 8, 2012.
Occupy Portland along with Occupations from across the State of Oregon are planning to converge in Salem for the opening of the 2012 Oregon Legislative Session on February 1, 2012. The coalition of occupation movements will work together to expose corporate influence, protest the austerity budget and advocate for initiatives favorable to the 99% of Oregonians. Individuals and affinity groups are encouraged to engage in peaceful creative projects to advance the goals of the Occupy movement.
The coalition of occupations will conduct an Oregon General Assembly to determine the priorities of our legislative agenda. Our organizing efforts are aimed at educating, empowering and supporting affinity groups and individuals in carrying out their protests.
It is the necessary time to protest. Austerity measures threaten our economy with budget cuts to schools, hospitals, parks, and social services. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) reforms waste valuable resources on increased incarceration. Corporations are legally people and people are their useless commodities. Citizens’ votes are for sale thanks to corporate propaganda. Citizens’ voices are silenced through media imbalance, their communities bankrupt, polluted and out of work thanks to Wall Street speculators and the greed of the wealthiest 1%. Our current, historic wealth inequality and poverty levels are not happening simultaneously purely out of coincidence. They are intrinsically linked.
We shall renew our calls for an Amendment to the Oregon Constitution to specify that its rights are for people, not corporations. We shall call for corporate tax reform, as the program of tax breaks has unfairly shifted the burden to working Oregonians and clearly not served to promote job growth.
More information about the event can be found at http://tinyurl.com/OccupyFeb1
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