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PORTLAND, ORE. – Early Sunday morning, after warnings from the Mayor’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau, 25 protesters associated with Occupy Portland were arrested for breaking a park curfew at Jamison Square during the course of a peaceful protest. Hundreds of supporters watched as their friends and fellow protesters were arrested, one by...
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The Alberta Tar Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: “Game Over for the Planet” (Dr. James Hansen, top U.S. climatologist). The Keystone XL would take the dirtiest fossil fuel on the planet from northern Alberta 1,700 miles to the Texas Gulf Coast, for export to China and worldwide. President Obama has EXCLUSIVE authority to...
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***Update*** The following press release has some corrections required. Please note that this is an updated and edited version from the original posting. The press release is from a quorum of the arrestees from the action and occupation of Jamison Square on 10/29/2011. For Immediate Release    October 30, 2011, 4:00AM Contacts:   Kendall: 503-804-6470, kendallishere@gmail.com Cameron:...
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To all of our supporters, we would like to extend an enormous thank you. We wouldn’t be able to Occupy without your help. Holding this space, in solidarity with Occupy movements around the globe means that we, together, are loudly demanding change. Looking for ways to help? Please share our needs page with your...
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Passed around during the march with labor on Oct. 26, 2011 As occupiers at Occupy Portland, we stand in solidarity with organized and unorganized working people, the underemployed and unemployed masses of Oregon. We object to corporate greed and the systematic destruction of workers rights and living wage jobs; and we call for substantive...
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8 Peaceful Occupy Raleigh Protestors, Including Disabled Woman Holding Handicapped Sign, Arrested for *NOT* Blocking the Sidewalk. Their crime: Sitting down to one side of the sidewalk in solidarity with a woman with a documented disability who could not get up from the chair NC Capitol police were trying to take away. This happened...
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Friday, October 28, 2011 1:00 PM At OCCUPY PORTLAND Terry Schrunk Plaza SW 3rd and Madison Portland Copwatch has arranged with contacts at Occupy Portland to conduct a Your Rights and the Police Seminar. Communities of poor people, people of color, activists, youth and other vulnerable folks are often targeted by our system, and...
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Saturday, October 29th MARCH TO THE CONVENTION CENTER TO PROTEST BANK OF AMERICA’S CYNICAL PLOY TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO HELP THEM “RETAIN” THEIR HOMES. MARCH BACK ACROSS THE BROADWAY BRIDGE TO OCCUPY PORTLAND’S NEW SITE IN THE PEARL DISTRICT.  ENJOY A CAMP MEETING, AND THEN DINNER BIKED OVER FROM THE OCCUPY KITCHEN....
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Our Occupy Oakland family was attacked this morning. From their frontpage, This morning at 5am over 500 police in riot gear from cities all over central California brutally attacked the Occupy Oakland encampment at 14th & Broadway. The police attacked the peaceful protest with flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets after moving in...
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Share the Facebook Event Widely: Oct 26h, 5PM Labor Community March On October 6th, Occupy Portland began with thousands taking to the streets in downtown Portland to protest economic inequality, the scapegoating of working people, the vilification of labor unions, the exploitation of the unemployed and underemployed, and the corporate takeover of our communities....
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