Events

NATO PROTESTS: Get on the Bus to Chicago! May 14/15

May 6, 2012

NATO – THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION WILL BE MEETING IN CHICAGO ON THE 2oth and 21nd of MAY. THE BUS FROM PORTLAND WILL BE LEAVING EITHER THE 14th or 15th of MAY.

 Because understanding NATO is first and foremost, please visit here: natoprotest.org to learn all about this incredibly corrupt alliance that continues to “intervene” in poor parts of the world only to take their resources, kill or depose leaders with integrity and replace them with corrupt leaders.

THIS INFORMATION IS FROM 99Solidarity.net -

99Solidarity has begun sending email updates to occupiers signing up for the Chicago Bus Trips. Please be sure to add info@99solidarity.net to your address book to ensure the updates do not get filed as spam.

99% solidarity is excited to participate in nonviolent direct actions in Chicago from May 18 to 22, 2012. We have secured buses to bring people to these actions from several U.S cities.

We are currently working on the travel schedule, agenda and other important details of this trip. We will be contacting you with updated information shortly. For now here are a few updates:

  • The Bus trip is free
  • 50 people from each city must sign up and board the bus for the trip take place. If a city has less then 50 sign ups, then we may have to cancel the bus for that city.
  • Meals will be provided on board the bus to and from Chicago
  • We are working on housing and meals while in Chicago

There are several direct actions and events that we will participate in while in Chicago including:

  • May 18 – The People’s Summit
  • May 19 – the 99% Solidarity People’s Convention
  • May 20 – CANG8 rally and march.

Please visit 99solidarity.net often to get the most up to date information and be sure to invite your friends and fellow occupiers to join you on this exciting, historic trip.

In addition, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter: @99solidarity

Currently, a bus (or more) will be leaving from Portland in time to arrive in Chicago on May 17.

They’re also leaving from these cities:

  • New York City
  • Washington DC
  • Boston, MA
  • Providence, RI
  • Burlington, VT
  • Salem, NH
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Oakland CA
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • San Francisco, CA

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So tell your friends and get on the bus!

They do have a voluntary pledge of Non-violence and Mutual Respect and a voluntary Action Agreement. A word of warning, if you go to register for the bus, the action agreement loses its “voluntary-ness”.

There’s also the Chicago Principles which everyone in the movement should familiarize themselves with.

The Chicago Principals

  • Our solidarity will be based on respect for a political diversity within the struggle for social, economic and environmental justice. As individuals and groups, we may choose to engage in a diversity of tactics and plans of action but are committed to treating each other with respect and working towards a common goal of peace and justice.
  • As we plan our actions and tactics, we will take care to maintain appropriate separations of time and space between divergent tactics.
  • We oppose any state repression of dissent, including surveillance, infiltration, disruption, limiting our action to “free speech zones,” and violence, or attempts to divide our movement through the conscious creation of divisions regarding tactics, organization, strategies, and alliances.
  • Any debates or criticisms will stay internal to the movement, avoiding any public or media denunciations of fellow activists and events.

May Day Re-Cap

May 2, 2012
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

May 2, 2012

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 – What’s Happening?

April 27, 2012
May Day – What’s Happening?

Twitter – FOLLOW: #M1PDX @LiberateMayDay JOIN THE CEL.LY TEXT LOOP: Type @may1pdx in the body of a text and send that text to 23559 20 excuses to get out of work! Not all of these events have the consensed support of the Occupy Portland General Assembly Press Conference on May Day March and PLOC...
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Friday Night Events

April 27, 2012

The RACC will attempt to show another movie tonight in our series (Friday 7 PM) if the technology cooperates and Murphy’s Law is suspended.  1 hour documentary on the largest longest squat in modern memory.  The autonomous community of Christiania, near Copenhagen, Denmark, which was liberated from an abandoned military base.   Christiania, You Have My...
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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Portland Now!

April 25, 2012

A representative from Veterans for Peace just notified us. “So here is your chance to let one of the master minds behind the bail out of Wall Street and the Banks get a piece of your mind – Geithner is one of the architects of the Bail Outs or rather largest transfer/theft of working folks wealth...
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Bradley Manning Surprise Party Happening Now!

April 24, 2012
Bradley Manning Surprise Party Happening Now!

MEDIA CONTACT: Nicole Balmforth - 970-799-6468 WATCH LIVE: opdxlive.org FOLLOW us on Twitter: @A24Portland, #A24 Join us for an unforgettable day of nationwide direct action in support of Bradley Manning as he begins his next series of court hearings… ones that may lead to the Death Penalty for this young man who has been nominated...
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Apr. 24th, 5:30PM – Our Streets: The Police, The Public, and the Law

April 23, 2012

Polie Chief Mike Reese will be speaking at PSU. Come out and ask the questions that need to be asked! Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 5:30-7:00pm Portland State University  Smith Memorial Student Union (SW Park & Harrison), Rm. 296 1.5 General CLE credits For questions, please contact Sarah Radcliffe: sarah.radcliffe@lasoregon.org, 503- 224-4086   Program Topics: ·        The...
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Apr. 27, 8AM: Support Rally for Don

April 21, 2012

Support Rally for Don, April 27, 8am Multnomah County Courthouse, 1021 SW 4th Ave Don’s trial date will be set at 9am on Friday, the 27th. Don would like folks who are rallying to support him to show up there at 8am. At this appearance his trial date will be set, possibly for a...
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Sat. Apr. 21, 12PM LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights Day

April 20, 2012

Saturday 4/21 at 12:00pm Garlington Center 3034 NE MLK Jr Blvd Portland, OR 97212 Since LGBTQ people are everywhere, in every group, event organizers are welcoming activists and advocates with any human or civil rights issue to join us for education and dialogue. We will have information tables, small group conversations and plenty of...
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