Dr. Know If Pioneer Courthouse Square is “Portland’s living room,” the old Pioneer Courthouse itself seems more like the dark, scary attic that no one ever goes into. It’s a striking building, but what   More

News Occupy Portland protesters gave up their blockade of Southwest Main Street Sunday night, moving to Pioneer Courthouse Square and ending the movement's direct confrontation with Portland police and city officials.---Police had pushed Occupiers west to Main Street from Chapman and Lownsdale Squares in the early afternoon, blocking traffic on the street for most of the afternoon as they stared across ...   More

News Supporters of the tea party in Oregon will be back in Pioneer Courthouse Square this Friday, April 15 for what's become their annual tax day protest. (U.S. taxpayers this year actually have until Monday, April 18 this year to file because of an unusual circumstance.)Organizers of this year’s tea party’s protest starting at 5:30 pm in Portland don’t know what to expect when it comes to turnout. ...   More

News Supporters of more than 50 groups plan to turn out this Saturday, March 19 at Pioneer Courthouse Square to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The date marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Saturday’s rally of labor, faith-based, peace and environmental justice organizations will highlight the link between the economic downturn and the ongoing wars in the Middle East, ...   More

News As events continue to develop quickly in Egypt, the local Egyptian community is planning another rally this Saturday, Feb. 5 in Pioneer Courthouse Square.Organizer Ahmed Raslan, one of the people featured in this week's WW piece about Egyptians in the Portland metropolitan area, says the rally will run from 1 pm to 3 pm. More details can be found on this Facebook page titled Egypt: We Hear You!Last ...   More

News There's a gathering planned for Pioneer Courthouse Square in support of the protesters in Egypt on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29.The Egyptian Association for Change—a group of Egyptians and Egyptian Americans interested in the country's democratic, economic, political and social reform—is hosting a peaceful protest at the downtown Portland square from 2 pm to 5pm. For more information on the protest, ...   More

News "There's nothing sexier than wearing your own skin," says Meggan Anderson (pictured above in the middle), who used her topless torso spray painted like a cat's skin to draw attention the cruelty animals suffer for their furs. Anderson and others from national animal rights group PETA, which is based in Virginia, came to Pioneer Courthouse Square and held protest signs over their chests this ...   More

News It hasn't taken long for the apparent backlash to begin after the arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-born Corvallis man alleged to have plotted a bomb attack Friday in Pioneer Courthouse Square at the annual holiday tree lighting. The FBI announced this morning an attack shortly after midnight today at a Corvallis mosque attended by the suspect, Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Here's the FBI's news release, ...   More

News Providing what may be a glimpse at the defense ahead for Mohamed Osman Mohamud, one of the defense attorneys for the 19-year-old bomb suspect said today in court that the government “was basically grooming" his client. The remarks by defense attorney Stephen Sady came at the initial court appearance for Mohamud, who was arrested Friday outside Pioneer Courthouse Square by the FBI on charges ...   More

News The alleged Portland bomb plot got the spotlight from former Portland news guy Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News program. O'Reilly, whose familiarity with Portland stems from his work at KATU as a reporter and anchor in the mid-1980s, got into it last night with former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and current Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on The O'Reilly Factor. After O'Reilly's intro, ...   More