News Portland Police Chief and potential mayoral candidate Mike Reese has become an online laughingstock for telling KGW-TV yesterday that Occupy Portland delayed police response to a rape for three hours. ---"We had a rape victim stand by for three hours until we could get an officer to take a report," Reese said, "and that makes all of us very sad."Today, the Police Bureau walked Reese's claim back, ...   More

News In a TV interview Wednesday, New York Deputy Mayor Carl Howard Wolfson explained why and how the City of New York cleared the Occupy Wall Street protest out of Zucotti Park, and in doing so, contrasts New York’s strategy with the eviction of Occupy Portland over the weekend.---Wolfson told New York One he criticizes Portland’s 48-hour notice to protesters because, he says, it drew people looking ...   More

News The final rumor to sweep through the ruins of Occupy Portland inflamed the holdouts in the 420 Hotel.  “They killed a puppy!” screamed a young man with a scraggly goatee and a black Army ja   More

News The homeless were back occupying the spaces under the Burnside Bridge on Monday, one day after their downtown real estate had been reclaimed by the city over the weekend. The city shut down the    More

News Born from the same political movement, each Occupation around the country has differed in size, level of violence and the degree of tolerance by government. Roughly 70 U.S. cities have seen Oc   More

News Occupy Portland had countless moments of beauty, absurdity and anger. In the end, it was downright ugly. The 39 days of occupation in Lownsdale and Chapman squares began as an idealistic stateme   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 ...   More

News At about 6:25 Sunday morning, dozens of Portland police officers clad in riot gear quietly folded their tents and went home. It was supposed to be the campers and protesters of the Occupy Portland movement who have inhabited Chapman and Lownsdale Squares since Oct. 6 who surrendered to the police bureau's show of force but things did not turn out the way many in the gathered throng expected.Last Thursday, ...   More