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Oregonians across the state “Occupy” Congressional District 2 to demand People’s Town Halls with Rep. Walden

In the largest, unified public demonstration to address a specific member of Congress in recent history, the Occupy movement will convene throughout Congressional District 2 in eastern Oregon Monday, December 5, to demand [...]

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SUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT'S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN ON DECEMBER 12TH

As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Read More >>

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis [...]

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Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, was evicted by a large police force in full riot gear. [...]

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Occupy Portland’s Action Committee has issued a call for decentralized-yet-coordinated nonviolent civil disobedience against big banks.  Let’s shut them down!

We invite everyone to join the public march on the morning of Thursday November 17th.

The action starts @ 8am on the East Side of

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After an all night standoff between Portland Police and Occupy Portland campers the camp is taken apart and items left are thrown in dumpsters.

Source : Oregon Live – Occupy Portland Police Take Back Two Parks, But the [...]

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The predawn confrontation that Occupy Portland protesters prepared for this weekend unfolded instead in daylight hours Sunday, after throngs of supporters had gone home to sleep and at a time when bleary-eyed campers were caught unaware.

Portland police successfully cleared the two downtown parks where protesters had camped since Oct. 6, but the evictions sparked [...]

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At what point does a protest movement become an excuse for camping? At what point is utopianism discredited by the seedy, dangerous, derelict fun fair it creates? At what point do the excesses of a movement become so prevalent that they can reasonably be called its essence? At what point do Democratic politicians need to [...]

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As we’ve reported yesterday, Portland’s Mayor Sam Adams, has given OccupyPortland until midnight tonight to leave their encampment.  After 12:01, who knows what will happen and I would assume (although I really, really hope not), we may see a repeat of what happened at Occupy Oakland about a week or so again.  Like I [...]

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Mayor Sam Adams this morning gave the Occupy Portland encampment an eviction notice of 12:01 a.m Sunday.

At a press conference at City Hall, Adams, standing with Chief Mike Reese and City Commissioner Nick Fish, cited the rise in  crime around the encampments in ordering demonstrators out of the squares.

He said Terry Schrunk [...]

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Bill Moyers finds roots in an environmental memo from 1971…

“Wall Street owns the country…. Money rules…. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us.” So sayeth [...]

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Protesters at a public park in Fresno were harassed and arrested by police for a third consecutive evening Monday as officers told them that local penal code allowed them to ignore First Amendment rights and break [...]

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Before the General Assembly of Occupy Dallas,

Whereas the General Assembly of Occupy Dallas stands in support of Occupy Wall Street which started September 17, 2011 at Liberty Square in Read More >>

November 5th marks Occupy Medford’s 4th week in Alba Park. Over the course of these 4 weeks, we have had many great discussions, planned about 9 events outside of GA meetings, and made many friends. We have attracted roughly 3-4 new people  each meeting, and our core number has steadily grown, albeit slowly.
 
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“Since the formal mechanisms of power refuse to restore the rule of law, then we, the 99 percent, will have to see that justice is done.”

Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning [...]

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Cheap slave labor kicking into high gear as the American holiday season is coming soon, very soon.  Please shop locally, invest in our community not slave factories this holiday season!

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods – merchandise that has [...]

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