Tuesday night the police broke up a camp in one of the parks (not the main one) and arrested 9 people. Some people were arrested about a week after the protest started because they refused to reopen a road - and the majority of Occupy Portland was like "um, let them have the road, they're being cool about us camping in the parks indefinitely" and so no one was full of rage about those people getting arrested. It's remarkably civil and mutually supportive. When the revolution begins, it will not begin in Portland.
I'm really curious about what happened with the solidarity march they planned to have today - it hadn't started by the time I left downtown at 5... but, you know, I can't find it on the news, so I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
I also met the head of the Oregon Tea Party when I went to visit Occupy Portland a few weeks ago. He had a cameraman with him and asked me to talk about my experience, and I was like "Well, I just got here 30 seconds ago, so no real experience yet."
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Date: 2011-11-03 07:03 am (UTC)I'm really curious about what happened with the solidarity march they planned to have today - it hadn't started by the time I left downtown at 5... but, you know, I can't find it on the news, so I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
I also met the head of the Oregon Tea Party when I went to visit Occupy Portland a few weeks ago. He had a cameraman with him and asked me to talk about my experience, and I was like "Well, I just got here 30 seconds ago, so no real experience yet."