My Old Bank
Here’s a Portland picture I found at Digby, and it’s my old bank branch, where they used to retroactively explain their many fees to me. Nice to know somebody’s got their back.
Posts Tagged ‘Occupy Portland’
Our Tax Dollars at Work
UPDATE BELOW: Awesome picture from New York. Today Occupy Portland was scheduled to meet at 8:00am at the East end of the Steel Bridge, so I went down to take a look. I walked along the west side waterfront, figuring that would give me the broadest view of what was happening, and alert me to [...]
The Kids Are (not) Alright
Occupy Portland assembled just outside my front door earlier today, at a rally/walkout for Portland State University students. As you can see, it was reasonably well attended, and eventually led to a march on, appropriately enough for debt-saddled students, the Bankruptcy Court, I’m not sure which one. Though I left as the march departed, I [...]
What Little Remains
In the aftermath of the of the rout of OccupyPortland yesterday afternoon, I decided to take a look at the oft-touted “damage” to the parks. Peering through the hastily installed cyclone fences at a crew of city workers, who had doffed the ever-so-telegenic masks worn by the earlier invaders, all I saw was what any [...]
Wet Firecrackers
UPDATE: (4:00pm) Reinforcements have been brought in from enlightened places like Salem, and the cops are really rolling up with rubber bullets, tear gas, and what not. Another busload of cops is heading in. More news later; the protesters are heading right here to Park Ave. Bowing to the bleatings of The Oregonian and [...]
The Revolution Will Be Blogged
UPDATE: Well, we just left Occupy Portland well over an hour after the whole thing was supposed to have been rolled up once and for all, and it wasn’t happening. Thousands of people filled both the parks and the surrounding streets, encircled by hundreds of supportive cyclists. (This is Portland, after all….) Disappointed helicopters still [...]
Occupying Portland, Politely
I was a little worried, as I prepared to head to the waterfront to assemble for Occupy Portland; I had just gotten an email from Daily Kos asking me to “pledge” to occupy, and it said I would be joining 37 other hardy souls. “Really?” my friend Denise asked, “there’s only going to be 37 [...]