Live feed from Occupy Portland at Jamison Square
UPDATE, 11/13, 12:26 a.m.: For a list of live feeds from the November 13 eviction, see this update.
UPDATE, 10/30, 1:43 a.m.: KATU, Channel 2 in Portland, is covering live on television.
UPDATE, 10/30, 10:15 a.m.: The live feed went on until at least 3:30 a.m. It took the police that long to arrest about 30 people.
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Comments (7)
I would like to sugggest to Occupy Portland that they consider a move to occupy the Wapato Facility.
Wapato is a building very representative of government economic waste, justifying a proper demonstration. It has all the facility requirements to accomodate a large number of people. Their actions would not impede those of us trying to get to work. But best of all, there would be no need for arrests, alleviating undo pressure on the other currently open detention centers.
The police can simply consider anyone there to be "arrested" if they so desire.
Posted by Gibby | October 30, 2011 8:23 AM
I like it. Go Occupy Umatila and the nuke storage facility. If that blows, or the trucks coming and going crash, it'll affect us 99%-ers for sure.
Posted by Harry | October 30, 2011 9:12 AM
I got a good laugh out of the guy wearing the "Save the Post Office" t-shirt. Why bother? At least 60-70% of the stuff we get from the USPS is junk mail. And we can certainly live with delivery of this crap 2 or 3 days a week at most.
Too bad the USPS union doesn't see the writing on the wall...
Posted by Dave A. | October 30, 2011 11:03 AM
A better idea:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/video-suggests-another-approach-to-occupying-wall-street-send-them-garbage/
Posted by dman | October 30, 2011 11:27 AM
What would happen to Occupy if the special rules that prohibit discharge of student loan debt were restored to what they were twenty years ago?
Alternatively, what would happen to Occupy if all mortgage debt and credit card debt were treated like student loan debt, prohibited from discharge in bankruptcy (even retroactively) forever, including preemption of state anti-deficiency judgment laws? The Federal Reserve has more than 1.6 trillion dollars of junk debt still on their books as an asset. See In re Lewis, 506 F.3d 927 (9th Cir. 2007), revealing what Congress could do -- to make the debt marketable to some Saudi owned debt collector outfit.
Posted by pdxnag | October 30, 2011 11:33 AM
What would happen if the U.S. brought all the troops home and quit subsidizing the defense of our economic competitors?
Posted by Evergreen Libertarian | October 30, 2011 12:56 PM
"Twenty-five people were arrested on charges of interfering with a police officer, criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. Their names are:..."
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/police_release_names_of_occupy.html
Three others were arrested prior to the twenty-five.
Reuters provides an Austin-Portland comparison:
"At Occupy Austin, some 38 people were arrested on Saturday night and early Sunday after refusing to let police take down food tables and clean the City Hall plaza where they had camped for several weeks, police told Reuters on Sunday.
They were charged with criminal trespass and issued citations that mean they can't return to the protest site.
'We've had a very peaceful Occupy Austin, especially compared to the rest of the nation, but we do have rules that have to be enforced,' said Austin Police Officer Dennis Farris."
http://news.yahoo.com/snowstorm-tests-resolve-wall-st-protesters-005901964.html
Posted by Gardiner Menefree | October 30, 2011 3:56 PM