News The Portland Police Bureau has come under some heat this week after posting mugshots of Occupy Portland protesters arrested at Jamison Square on Sunday morning on its Facebook page. ---The Bureau posted its press release about the incident along with the mugshots of seven arrestees, sparking a torrent of criticism on Twitter and 458 comments on the page Facebook page itself. Portland Police Bureau's ...   More

News Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore took time out from his US book tour this evening to pay a visit to the Occupy Portland camp. ---Moore was expected to show at 3:30 pm, but didn't slosh into muddy Terry Schrunk Plaza until 5 pm, where he was ushered into the center of the amphitheater to address the crowd of occupiers, supporters and media. A hastily assembled P.A. system mercifully saved ...   More

News Filmmaker, author and 1 percenter Michael Moore is scheduled to visit the Occupy Portland camps today, and protesters plan to march to a Bank of America branch to draw attention to the bank’s investment in coal mining.---Occupy Portland says protesters will dress like zombies. Moore is scheduled to visit the camps some time after 3:30 p.m. He visited the Occupy Oakland camp Friday after police there ...   More

News A tense and protracted standoff between Occupy Portland protesters and City Hall ended in the early hours of Sunday morning as police arrested 27 Occupiers in the Pearl District’s Jamison Square. --- The Occupiers’ move into the Pearl defied Mayor Sam Adams’ prohibition of any expansion of the political protest into city parks outside Chapman and Lownsdale squares, where Occupy Portland has ...   More

News With police and local TV stations reporting sewage leaks and garbage piles at Occupy Portland camps, speculation has grown that City Hall will try to use health risks as a justification to shut down the tent city at Chapman and Lownsdale Squares. ---But WW has obtained notes from an assessment by Multnomah County health officials who walked through the camps on Thursday and found "nothing actionable.""Toilets ...   More

News Many 1 percenters and their employees and friends showed up in support of Occupy Portland on Friday afternoon in Pioneer Courthouse Square to singalong with Storm Large, Pink Martini and members of the Oregon Symphony. ---Members of the actual Occupy Portland encampment were almost nowhere to be seen, lost in a crowd of Columbia-, Nike- and Ugg-wearing spectators sipping the free coffee donated by ...   More

News Two of Portland's street kid "families" have brokered a truce declaring Occupy Portland's two camps a neutral, non-violent zone.---Occupiers tell WW that the threat of assaults in camp has dropped in since yesterday, when the two groups, the "A" Camp Family and the Juggalos, agreed to keep all disputes out of Chapman and Lownsdale Squares. "The word on the curb is that some of the groups—the Juggalos, ...   More

News Name: Iris Stevenson--- Age: 40 Occupation: Writer, producer, musician and designer Tenure at Occupy Portland: Camping on and off since day one Otherwise she lives in: Southwest Portland Her favorite theologian: Stevenson says trying to single out her favorite theologian would be as difficult as describing her race, and refused talk to WW if we didn’t promise to list all her influences—so ...   More

News Speculation has flown around City Hall and the Occupy Portland camps for the past three weeks as to where  Mayor Sam Adams would draw the line on the protest's move into unauthorized campsites in public parks.---Apparently, that line is in the Pearl District.Occupy Portland announced today that it plans to march into the Pearl's Jamison Square at 4 pm Saturday and hold a potluck dinner and "Cuddle ...   More

Music Earlier this month, Salon ran a brief but interesting piece noting the minor role music has played at the Occupy protests—in contrast to the protest song-heavy civil rights struggle—and asking if any great folk singers would emerge from the Occupy protests. --- That question remains unanswered, but here in Portland at least we know that some of our highest-profile artists are working (heh) in concert ...   More