Fish Says It's Time to End the Occupation of Lownsdale and Chapman Squares

Ends City Parks Bureau's support for Occupy Portland camp

City officials say Occupy Portland campers have sawed limbs from elms in their downtown camp.

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City Commissioner Nick Fish has pulled his Parks and Recreation employees out of the Occupy Portland camp out of concern for their safety, leaving the Occupiers with no public toilets, no trash pickup and no park security.---

Fish tells WW the damage to Chapman and Lownsdale squares has gone too far, and city employees have found that Occupy campers have cut down branches from the historic elms. 

relations between the campers and the parks department have deteriorated
Blackwood said cleaning crews have been repeatedly threatened and intimidated

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