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Occupy Portland Occupy Foreclosed Home; Arrests in Downtown March

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It's May Day, and the people of Occupy Portland are holding both marching and occupying a foreclosed home. Join us as we follow them:At the foreclosed home12:04 pm: Protesters have tied red and black cloth to what remains of the old "for sale" sign. Protesters are holding the ends of the cloth, walking in circles and singing: "Wave and spin, this is how our work begins. Mend and heal, take this dr...   More
 
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 WW Editorial Staff

Occupiers Get Clever With May Day Flyers

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Occupy Portland activists have called for a general strike tomorrow, in honor of May Day.Portland Mayor Sam Adams this afternoon put out a press release saying he expects a "peaceful, family-friendly" May Day march by organized labor groups—but noted "the Portland Police Bureau are charged with keeping the peace."The bureau, for its own part, said in an April 22 release that "mildly aggressive" ...   More
 
Monday, April 30, 2012 COREY PEIN

Occupy Protesters Bare Breasts in Downtown

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Occupy Portland protesters took off their tops in downtown Portland Thursday to advertise an upcoming protest at the Hanford nuclear reservation later this month.With bare chests, some painted with multicolored radiation symbols, eight women and three men handed out fliers and waved at cars and buses at the corner of Southwest 5th Avenue and Taylor Street during afternoon rush hour. Some wore gas ...   More
 
Thursday, April 5, 2012 ALEX TOMCHAK SCOTT

Occupy Portland Debates Occupying Lake Oswego

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WW Arts and Culture Editor Martin Cizmar struck a blow for the 99 percent recently by kayaking around Oswego Lake, and Occupy Portland has taken note. Spurred on by a quote from Lake O Mayor Jack Hoffman—“If there was an Occupy Oswego Lake, what would happen? I just don’t know”—its adherents have been debating following Cizmar's revolutionary paddle strokes by occupying the lake themsel...   More
 
Thursday, March 8, 2012 RUTH BROWN

How Steve Novick Might've Handled Occupy Portland (Updated)

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Steve Novick, the environmental lawyer and former U.S. Senate candidate who is running to replace Randy Leonard on the Portland City Council, laid out his platform yesterday in a lengthy BlueOregon post.The post went on in what Novick calls "mind-numbing detail" about his proposal for a city-backed health care clinic targeting workers who have disproportionately high health care expenses, modeled ...   More
 
Friday, March 2, 2012 COREY PEIN

Photo Gallery: Occupy Portland's F29 Protests

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We sent WW photo intern Mike Grippi down to Occupy Portland's "F29" protest yesterday. Here's what he captured: All photos by Mike Grippi....   More
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012 Mike Grippi

Occupiers' Hoax Fools Some, Confuses Others

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A leading Oregon health insurance company got punked Wednesday during an elaborate prank staged as part of an ongoing Occupy Portland protest against large corporations. (More coverage here and here.)The protest, called F29 Shut Down the Corporations, targeted members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of companies and conservative legislators who craft model bills for states to...   More
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 HANNAH HOFFMAN

Occupy Portland: F29 Live Blog

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As discussed in this week's cover story, Occupy Central, today will see "F29" anti-corporate protests around the country. And the organization leading the charge is Occupy Portland.Unlike Occupy movements in other cities, the Portland cohort is refusing to say what it will be doing, or where. The group is rallying at Waterfront Park at 11:30, then marching at 1 pm. After that? We'll have to wait a...   More
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 WW Editorial Staff

Occupy Central

The Portland movement is instigating the next global protest against corporate power.


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Occupy Las Vegas is on the line.  On Feb. 29, its members will join a national day of protest against corporations...   More
 
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 HANNAH HOFFMAN

Murmurs: ODOT Backlash and Schaufler Unbowed

Fixing a city charter right out of Dickens.


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WW reported recently about the Oregon Department of Transportation program that has given Union Pacific—with billions in profits—state subsidies of $24.7 million to fix its own track under the lot   More
 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 WW Editorial Staff

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