Uncategorized

WHEN: THU., Jan. 9th // 09:00 AM WHERE: Multnomah County Courthouse, RM 312   It may be early, but our fellow protesters need our help! Occupiers arrested during the Oct. 2011′s attempted occupation of Jamison Square and Dec. 2011′s attempted relaunch occupation of Shemanski Park will be setting their trial dates this month. Attend in solidarity and to send...
Read More

Mark Hofheins Jr. is founder of the United Coalition Against Repression for Equality (UCARE), a new coalition devoted to create a more unified, cohesive voice against Portland’s historic problem of chronic homelessness. A staunch Occupier and father, he is a recent advent to the activist scene and hopes to share his unique background, perspective...
Read More

On the first week of December, Portland Rising Tide and Wild Idaho Rising Tide campaigned a week of direct actions to stop Omega Morgan and its plans to ship machine parts (“megaloads”) for the controversial Alberta Tar Sands through Umatilla, OR. The successful shutdown led a wave of 99% resistance against the Portland-based corporation,...
Read More

Protesters arrested during the Oct. 2011′s attempted occupation of Jamison Square and Dec. 2011′s attempted relaunch occupation of Shemanski Park are facing their mandatory court appearances this day, thanks to the review by the Oregon Supreme Court this July. WHEN: THU., Dec. 12th // 01:30 PM WHERE: Multnomah County Courthouse, RM 311 The City has been arresting...
Read More

Occupy Portland Elder Caucus presents a provocative documentary GrowthBusters, where one man takes on City Hall, Wall Street, and The Pope as he questions society’s most fundamental beliefs about prosperity, and a sustainable existence. The film explores America’s worship of growth everlasting – economic, population, consumption, and urban – and the present and future dangers it poses on...
Read More

Community Assembly Every 1st WED. of Month From Announcement of 1st CA — December 2013 The OPDX Info Team and the Friends of Occupy Portland (FOOP) have been in discussion over the decline in General Assembly (GA) attendance and whether it is serving the community needs anymore. In a special GA next week , they propose...
Read More

Do you use Bitcoin? Touted as a collective, public, peer-to-peer alternative currency subverting the authority of big banks, it is gaining widespread participation while receiving recent publicity in the press. And now, just in time for the Giving Season, we have created a “public address” for generous, Bitcoin donors like you!   Give it...
Read More

Last Friday, November 15, Rolling Jubilee - just one project from Strike Debt New York – announced its third medical debt buy worth $13.5 million, across 45 states and Puerto Rico. Quite possibly the best legacy of the Occupy movement, Strike Debt played the financial class’ own games and won, abolishing the chains of thousands with the one and only people’s bailout. And Strike...
Read More

Civic Forums Every 3rd Wed. of Month WEBSITE HERE From Announcement of 1st Civic Forum — November 2013 Two years ago this day , the last hold-outs of the Occupy Portland encampment in downtown Portland was met with the Portland Police Bureau and Salem Police Department SWAT. With the end of the...
Read More

The age of “hacktivism” is alive and well. A generation of computer nerds, internet activists, whistleblowers and Wikileaks contributors are revealing the truth about our lucrative government to the eyes of the American public. Under threats of state persecution and incarceration, these heroes are risking their lives, their rights and their sovereignty to honor our right...
Read More