We invite all members of our Portland metro area communities for a film showing and interactive discussion of Canadian director Velcrow Ripper’s powerful documentary Occupy Love to commemorate our now 2nd year anniversary. Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The...
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Strike Debt (http://strikedebt.org/), from Occupy Wall St. in New York, is creating a debtors’ movement with education, networking and debtors’ assemblies resisting the finance industry’s main form of dominance. Rolling Jubilee (http://rollingjubilee.org/), from Strike Debt, intercepts the “debt marketplace” created by financial institutions selling old debt for pennies on the dollar to collection agencies,...
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We are approaching an exciting theme in our General Assemblies, one that is central for our survival and solidarity as a local movement. That is the idea of CORE VALUES – creating a solid set of ideals and principles that will guide and unite us. Born from the activities in our Summer Capacity-Building Conference...
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On Thursday, Sept. 5th, during our first fall 2013 General Assembly, an open-ended discussion was held about the possibility of Occupy Portland adopting “Accreditation ID” Cards for all Occupy-affiliated organizers and activists. Originally labeled “Membership ID’s” but changed to be more inclusive, this was an extension of the already-initiated Vigil Membership ID Cards for homeless protesters...
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“Americans’ support for the United States’ taking military action against the Syrian government for its suspected use of chemical weapons is on track to be among the lowest for any intervention Gallup has asked about in the last 20 years. Thirty-six percent of Americans favor the U.S. taking military action in order to reduce Syria’s ability to use chemical weapons. The majority — 51% — oppose such action, while 13% are unsure.”
Syria: Six Alternatives to Military Strikes
ACTION IN PORTLAND:
Sunday, 9/8 – 8pm No War With Syria – OLB/PDX Action
Monday, 9/9 – 4pm NO War in Syria PDX – Surround the Federal Building
NOW: Write Your Congressional Representative
Last Thursday, Aug. 29, an Emergency General Assembly was made at Lawnsdale Square, downtown, in concerns with the now-deposed City Hall Vigil. This summer has been incredibly difficult for our Vigilantes, risking legal and even physical harm while forbearing the violence, hard drug use, and other community-destroying behavior by a small and select few...
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