On Tuesday, May 1st, the Portland Police Bureau violently attacked and arrested more than three dozen May Day organizers and protesters using a level of force that would be best characterized as brutality. The organizations, groups, and coalitions represented below all actively participated in May Day marches, rallies, and liberations. Our members and supporters celebrated...
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Community responds to May Day Police brutality: an attack on one protester is an attack on the movement
May 4, 10:30 AM – PRESS CONFERENCE: MAY DAY POLICE BRUTALITY
Immediate Release May 4, 2012 May Day Organizers To Hold Press Conference on Police Brutality Portland – Today, organizers of actions on May Day, members of the legal community and victims of police brutality will speak about the police response. Speakers will include individuals from the Portland Liberation Organizing Council, which liberated a foreclosed home...
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May Day Arrestee Meeting on Friday, 5:30 to 7pm.
May Day arrestee meeting on Friday, 5:30 to 7pm. Stu Sugarman’s Office – 838 SW 1st Ave., Ste 500. Take notes and gather evidence now while it is fresh. Write statements about what happened on May 1st and the circumstances regarding your arrest. Collect all pictures and video possible. If you have not checked...
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*ON HOLD* Anti-Police Brutality March – May 3 – 8PM Rally at Pioneer Square
Update: This event has been postponed. Please stay tuned for more information. Due to yesterday’s excessive police force and brutality against protesters, an impromptu march has been called for by the Occupy Portland Action Committee. During General Strike March and the Dance Dance Revolution, protesters were beaten and arrested for jay-walking. Please come out to...
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May Day Re-Cap
Thank you to all who came out yesterday to make May Day a spectacular show of love, solidarity and strength from the protesters and a showing of ignorance, hate, and fear from the Portland Police Department. If you captured any footage that could be useful in court, please contact the ELK Legal Krewe at...
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Thurs. May 3rd 12PM- CRC’s Crowd Control Workgroup Meeting
A Message from Portland Copwatch
Friends
It looks as though the Citizen Review Committee is moving quickly to start its new Work Groups; after Tuesday’s Use of Deadly Force work group, then Wednesday’s CRC general meeting (agenda still hasn’t arrived), on Thursday next week they will hold the first meeting of their Crowd Control work group. It is open to the public. I should note that CRC Chair Jamie Troy’s office at NE 42nd and Sandy isn’t very large, but it could prompt them to find a larger meeting space if plenty of people showed up.
They were moved to start this group (after having it sitting in their “tracking list” for years) after hearing all the tesimony from Occupy Portland folks at their last public forum.
–dan handelman
portland copwatch
Portlandcopwatch.org
And here’s a couple of videos of Portland’s Police in full shame.
MAY DAY: 20 Ways to Play Hooky and Join Occupy Portland on the Streets
Repost from Occupy.com On May 1, the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called the Taft-Hartley Act, which requires unions to give 60 days notice for any strike action, and bans a variety of...
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Occupation Nation by B Media
B Media is part of the Occupy Portland Media Coalition. They’ve been touring around the country with their new episode and now it’s available for you to watch right in your own home. But really, grab a few friends before you do.
Occupation Nation: a remix movie exploring the philosophical roots of the recent movement for the 99%.
Just Do It – Free Online Screening
Constellation and Occupy.com present… A FREE 24-hour ONLINE SCREENING of Just Do It – a tale of modern-day outlaws In celebration of May Day and in honour of the direct action being taken by thousands of people 5:30pm EST Monday 30th April to 5:30pm EST Tuesday 1st May Plus live Q&A with director Emily James at 7pm EST,...
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