Comments on: In Response to the Open Letter from Commissioner Nick Fish

By: occupypdxer

occupypdxer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:57:54 +0000

When you say “destroy the parks” do you mean that they’re completely useless? I’m pretty sure the parks are totally intact and grass will grow back in the spring.

By: Dee Dee

Dee Dee — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:10:41 +0000

The banks and corporations did not destroy the parks, Occupy Portland did. If I entered a park and destroyed all or part of it I would be arrested and have to make restitution.

I have been listening to this 99% chant for too long. What does it mean? What do you want? You surely don’t believe the 1% cares that you are unhappy. Snap out of it and find a way that gets more than 1% of the people behind your cause.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:07:59 +0000

What you don’t seem to get is that for some people, this park holds a special place. Your disrespect by continuing to disallow the public to use the park as it was intended, a quiet greenspace, is astounding. It’s time to pack up your drug-addled, filthy camp and move along.

I lost my lover in September and mourned there EVERY DAY. And now I can’t be there to find the solace in this park. WHICH I PAID FOR WITH MY TAX DOLLARS.

I’ve been patient and I support the aims of the movement, but not the means. Figure out a better way, go occupy a condominium or Forest Park or whatever, but move on. More and more of us who actually do still have jobs and pay taxes (and that’s like 80-90% of us) are really getting fed up with seeing these drug-infested, filthy camps continue.

Go away, please.

By: annette pepin

annette pepin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:19:40 +0000

Move the carnival elsewhere. Freedom of expression does not include damaging public property. Everyone is gearing up for confrontation despite all the statements to the contrary. I have stated this before, but essentially these parks are being held hostage and at the expense of the city, and yes, the people who use to frequent these parks to enjoy them for what they were intended. It is shameful this wanton disregard for theses unique spaces.

By: Jack Cox

Jack Cox — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:07:54 +0000

Regarding Commissioner Fish’s concern about the cost of repairing the parks I wonder if anyone has looked at the revenue Occupy Portland has generated for the city including local businesses.

By: C C

C C — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:53:15 +0000

Somebody ‘official’ at Occupy should start a kickstarter crowd-sourced donation to cover the damages. I’m sure if word gets out there will be thousands of people in the city willing to donate a buck or two…

By: pdxbohica

pdxbohica — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:14:08 +0000

First thing to do is get some protection on the trees. Placing slats of wood between the ropes and the bark or some other form of reliving the stress should be an easy fix.

By: Fred Heutte

Fred Heutte — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:53:33 +0000

So effectively, this is a “signed” piece by Green Guardians and Peace & Safety, which is fine.

But it highlights concern about how the web site can be most effective in representing Occupy and providing high quality, effective, timely information while having a transparent process. Because this kind of public information and discussion resource is so highly important, it raises the stakes for transparency, accountability and, again, effectiveness.

While this is not the place to make a formal proposal, the suggestion I made during the GA last week is to form an editorial board approved by the GA each day, consisting of, for example, four people who are responsible for advising on content for the front page (aside from GA-adopted statements).

This approach works quite well for the Climate Action Network at the UN climate negotiations. CAN publishes the ECO daily newsletter on paper and online during negotiating sessions including the upcoming one at the end of the year in Durban (where as in 2010 I will again be ECO editor) — see http://www.climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters

Each day the CAN daily meeting — the equivalent of the GA — takes self-nominations and approves the ECO ed board. The ed board reviews incoming articles proposed by CAN working groups and members for consistency with CAN policy, readability, etc. No previous journalistic experience is required; only common sense and a willingness to serve. This approach works effectively because people can and want to offer their service and judgment on behalf of the movement as a whole.

By: carol

carol — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:26:21 +0000

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2011/10/Occupy-discretion.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_portland+%28Portland+Business+Journal%29

They just posted this on-line wake up people…

By: Forest

Forest — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:04:59 +0000

I was disturbed to notice in Mr. Fish’s letter that he said banks and corporations won’t be paying to fix the parks.
Why not? Because they don’t pay their fair share of taxes. These parks are downtown in the midst of business areas, and generally used by big corporations; Goldman told their people not to eat lunch in the park, they eat there usually. So, again the taxpayers pay for the Goldman Sacks lunch park; yes we did because the owners falsely got a small business grant for that small part of their giant corporation.