The Miracles Club
4200 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Blvd. Portland, Or 97211

Occupy Portland invites you to the Portland premier of a film by award winning director Velcrow Ripper, “OCCUPY LOVE” Friday April 19th

OCCUPY LOVE captures the heart of the movement of movements that is sweeping the planet in response to today’s economic and environmental crises. OCCUPY LOVE captures the heart of the movement of movements that is sweeping the planet in response to today’s economic and environmental crises, asking the question, “How can crisis create a love story?” Scenes include the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square, Spain’s Indignado movement, Occupy Wall Street NYC, The Maple Spring in Quebec, and indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands. Woven throughout is a deep exploration on the meaning and importance of “public love” – the love of humanity, the love of the planet.

Director, Velcrow Ripper, Skyped in for a Q&A between the two screenings.

Friday April 19th, 6:30pm and 9:00pm

Tickets are only $5

Trailer

Clinton ST. Theater 2522 SE Clinton, Portland, Oregon 97202

Official Site

NOTE: This campaign has ended but you can still get one of these Portrait sculptures by contacting the  OPDX office.

Contact: 971-258-1006

OPDXInfo.org

An ongoing Art Attack on Portland City Hall for their torturous policies affecting the 1000′s upon 1000′s of homeless, who are forced to seek sleep outdoors. Sponsored by the round-the-clock, over-year-long Occupy prayer vigil at City Hall.

The postcards will be artistic and provacative, spotlighting Portland’s torturous policies. The postcards will carry people’s individual messages that they can mail to the City Hall employee of their choice. The pen is mightier than the sword. A lot of different groups and kinds of people can all join together on this most fundamental issue, safe SLEEP.

Consider spending the night with us on Friday night “camped” around City Hall in defiance of the inhumane “camping” ban and in solidarity with our over­-year­-long direct­-action/prayer-vigil and in solidarity with all those who have no bed. (We will have some vegan pizza and probably some gluten­-free batter.)

The Portland Business Alliance is bumping it up and SO ARE WE!

PLEASE donate to the campaign WePay

Like the Occupy Prayer Vigil on facebook
OccuPdxVigil@gmail.com
@OcccuPdxVigil #right2sleep #notgoingaway

There are several reasons why this consensus has been reached. Accessibility has always been an issue at St. Francis Parish, as anyone coming into our office can attest. At the current location there is no parking nor a direct entryway, and with none of the windows facing the adjacent street, it is tucked away and easy to pass by. We wanted to downsize so we can begin allocating our funds to events and social projects again and focus less on Rent. Moving to a new location is really an expansion of our movement by making the office more accessible, giving it better exposure and making it more efficient.

We will move into the new location by April 15th, with plans to have our Grand Opening this International Workers’ Day, May 1st. No definite space has been agreed upon, which means we are open to any tips of for-lease buildings around the Portland area. The ideal space should be around 300-600 square feet, being around $300-$500 per month. A store-front would be a great bonus, and we prefer neighborhoods with diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds as opposed to trendy gentrification or downtown skyscrapers. Please continue to make suggestions for potential new space by sending us an email or giving us a call.

Occupy continues to act as a nexus and support for the peace and social justice movement in Portland. This space would be used for committee/working group meetings, meetings for other socioeconomic justice movement groups, a contact point, information dissemination and network hub, a computer lab for activists to use, an art lab for projects related to our movement, and a library (like our current meeting space).  We are continually grateful that we are still one of the few Occupy branches who has an indoor Office to call home, and are acutely aware of how our long-term success and influence could not have been made possible without it.

But we want to be clear that our movement is not centralized or trapped in our Office. So many different groups and offshoots have arose thanks to that fateful day in October 2011. There is an Occupy Beaverton, Occupy Gresham and Occupy St. Johns. There is Portland Action Lab , Community Supported Everything, Culture Mend, Rumorz Coffee, People’s Budget Committee, The City Hall Vigil, Bike Swarm andThe Portland Occupier among others: if it weren’t for Occupy, they may have never started. Of course, the branches don’t always acknowledge their roots (like budget cuts and Wall St. greed), but as the root, we are more than impressed how our city is being changed and our aspirations bearing fruit. We hope you’ll be the same once you take time to redefine grassroots, organizational success.

We have always appreciated our time at St. Francis and want to hold a night of celebration  for their gracious cooperation. That includes Red & Black Cafe, a real added bonus whose work and values they’ve been keeping long before we existed. We are in the works of planning this night, stay tuned for the announcement, the calendar post, and the social media RSVPs.

We’ve set up an Indiegogo campaign to help fund our new meeting space here: OPDX Office Space 2.0. This is a pivotal time to recruit volunteers to staff our Office and join Info Team — if you want to sign up please contact us here: occupyportlandinfo@riseup.net or call 971-258-1006.  Thanks for the continued, ongoing support: You really ARE the 99% rising up to action.

OCCUPY!

History of Social Justice Organizing’s History of the Portland Women’s
Movement continues on March 7th with Building: from Activism to
Institutions featuring Ruth Gundle, Kristan Knapp, Ann Mussey, and May
Wallace.

Find us in the second floor Gallery of the Urban Affairs Building at
Portland State University, 506 SW Mill on Thursday, March 7, 7-8:30 pm.
The program is co-sponsored by PSU’s Center for Women, Politics and
Policy. Free and open to the public, as usual.

The Portland women’s movement of the 70s began with protests and
consciousness raising but quickly expanded to include projects and
services: bookstores, abortion information and referral, a rape hotline,
women’s studies at PSU, an independent feminist school, a building, a
health clinic and more. This panel will cover the Community Law Project,
the Rape Relief Hotline, the Red Emma collective, the Portland Women’s
Health Clinic and Prescott House.

Ruth Gundle was one of the founders of the Community Law Project in
1975, a feminist law collective that represented both women and
organizations such as the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance and the
Portland Tenants’ Union. Ruth won the first lesbian custody case in
Oregon, and brought the first sexual harassment case in Oregon. In 1979
she went to work for the state legal services program where she
successfully brought suit to strike down Oregon’s refusal to pay for
Medicaid abortions and the first successful civil suit nationally
against a police department for failure to arrest a battering spouse.
She will talk about how they tried to run the CLP on feminist principles.

Ann Mussey was a member of a feminist collective in 1971 Portland called
Red Emma (after leftist organizer Emma Goldman)  which was home to some
of the early founders of the Portland Women’s Health Clinic. She is
currently on the faculty at Portland State University in Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies teaching courses related to gender and sexuality
including queer activism.

Kristan Knapp joined the Red Emma Collective in 1972. She and Bonnie
Tinker worked with others to found Prescott House, a place for women
getting out of prison to readjust to society. By 1975, with the
development of feminist consciousness about institutionalized violence
against women, it evolved into Bradley-Angle House, the first shelter
for women escaping violence on the West Coast. From 2002-2009 Kristan
worked as Bradley Angle’s Development Director, and helped the
organization reconnect with its roots

May Wallace (formerly Susan Crawford) was a member of the Main Street
Gathering, a collective of activists working to create a just society.
She helped launch the Rape Relief Hotline in 1973 (now known as the
Portland Women’s Crisis Line). Presently she is an artist, activist and
recently retired art teacher.

History of Social Justice Organizing is an ongoing series of
presentations by activists and scholars on a wide variety of social
justice organizing topics in Portland and elsewhere. The mission of the
Center for Women, Politics & Policy is to increase women’s leadership in
public policy through targeted teaching and community service programs.
Contact us at info@occupyhistory.us

Find upcoming programs at historyofsocialjustice.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/historyofsocialjustice.

The Center for Women, Politics and Policy: cwpp.pdx.edu/

Where: The Roxy – 1121 SW Stark Downtown Portland

Cost: $35

Get Tickets Here!!

One week left to get your tickets to the hottest fundraiser in town!! For just $35, not only will you be giving to a great non-profit working to get the best “pay what you can” restaurant up and running in portland, but you will also be helping food security and ending hunger, and you will be given the pleasure of enjoying a three course meal prepared fresh from local farmers by the Ne Si’ka chef!! Join us next Monday for a night of food, fun and community!!

Menu:

First Course: : Warm Black-eyed Pea and Ham Salad with a Mustard Green Pistou.

Second Course: Spatchcocked Cornish Game Hen, Fried Root Vegetables, with Brussels Slaw and a Mustard Jus.

Third Course: Hazelnut and Maple Rice Pudding.

Get Tickets Here!!

Ne Si’ka Website

Facebook Page

Our Mission: Helping to end hunger and food insecurity issues following the “pay what you can” restaurant model. Using, wherever possible, locally produced and sustainable ingredients that are healthy and nutritious. A model that builds community, offers a hand up, and helps to end food waste.

Ne Si’ka is a full service restaurant in the quality food tradition that allows patrons to pay as they are able. Suggested prices will be posted and those with means can pay the suggested price, or more if they so choose. All proceeds will go into the non-profit and for fighting hunger. Those who are unable to pay will have opportunities to volunteer at the restaurant in whatever capacity they are willing or able. This may be in the kitchen, the community garden, or a variety of other options. No one is turned away for inability to pay. The goal is to create a completely non-biased and comfortable atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable and has a seat at the table. While we help to alleviate hunger and food insecurity, the broader intention is to help create and foster a greater sense of community.
Everyone, regardless of means, has the right to dine with dignity and have access to a quality, nourishing, thoughtfully prepared meal.

There are many goals surrounding our project. Some big, some small, but they all add up to building a stronger healthier community that works for everyone. Offering a hand up to those who need it while offering amazing and gratifying opportunities to those with the ability to help. All surrounding quality food from the heart.

Thursday, December 13th 6:30pm

Pioneer Courthouse Square – Downtown Portland

Facebook Event Page

If we keep giving in to this bullshit propaganda that tax breaks for the wealthy create jobs, we will never fix the problems that got us into this mess in the first place. The time is now to stand up and say “Enough is Enough”!! Call your Representatives, Twitter bomb the fuck out of them, email them til their computers explode and come out Thursday night and tell the world “We’re not falling for this bullshit anymore” and together we will stop the corporate machine!!

10:ooam R2D2 Rally and Press Conference

Members of Right 2 Dream Too and supporters will hold a press conference and rally at Portland City Hall at 10am on Monday, December 10, United Nations Human Rights Day. Right 2 Dream Too has maintained a self-sustaining rest area for people who are houseless at NW 4th and Burnside since October 2011. Even though the site provides emergency shelter to dozens of people every night at no cost to the City of Portland, the City’s Bureau of Development Services continues to fine the landowners for code violations related to recreational camping ordinance. After months of negotiations, testimony before City Council and public rallies there is still no resolution to the conflict between Right 2 Dream Too and the City.

R2D2 Facebook Event Page

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11:45am Stand in Support of Grocery Workers

We call on Safeway, Albertsons & Fred Meyer to recognize the value, hard work and dignity of their employees. We Demand that all 3 employers do the right thing by their workers and settle a fair and just contract now. For more information contact 503-598-6324

Grocery Workers Facebook Event Page

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3:30pm Rally and Press Conference to Stop ICE Holds

This is a follow up rally to pressure Sheriff Staton to stop using ICE holds. 3 year campaign. These ICE holds result in deportations of about 300,000 people a year nationally. The Multnomah County Sheriff is not responding to ACT for Dignity and Justice, the community coalition working to end law enforcement-ICE collaboration.

ICE Holds Facebook Event Page

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5:00pm National Candlelight Vigil at Sen. Wyden’s Office

Join JwJ, the Oregon AFL-CIO, the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, Oregon action and Working America in a candlelight vigil to tell Senator Ron Wyden to end the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2%, No cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, no cuts to vital services for low income people. Call Senator Wyden and tell him to oppose cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and to end the Bus tax cuts for the richest 2%, 503-326-7525 or 202-224-5244.

National Vigil Facebook Event Page

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7:00pm The Healthcare Movie

Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, this documentary reveals the public relations campaigns that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900′s to dissuade the American public from supporting national health care. It also shows the personal and emotional impact on Canadians who now have access to health care because of the heroism of people who took a stand to bring universal health care to Canada over 50 years ago.

Healthcare Movie Facebook Event Page

With so much going on this day, please come out and join the thousands that will be coming out to stand for human rights all over the world. Hope to see y’all out there!!