Portland, Ore. Three activists with Cascade Climate Network and Portland Rising Tide occupied a billboard at the corner of SE 12th and Sandy Blvd. Sunday afternoon to protest proposals for coal export terminals across the Northwest. The activists altered the billboard with a giant banner that listed five potential coal export sites along the Oregon and Washington coast, [...]
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The Student Insurgent, Issue 23.2: Occupy & More
OAG’s lead editorial from our Takeover 4: Occupy Edition was published in this months edition of the Student Insurgent, a dope-diggity publication out of UO. Thanks comrades! For all those in Seattle, who can’t get their hands on a copy, enjoy some digital goodness! http://issuu.com/studentinsurgent/docs/si_23.2 Open publication – Free publishing – More anarchism
Occupy Seattle West Coast Port Shutdown
Event Title & Host Occupy Seattle West Coast Port Shutdown Website http://www.facebook.com/events… When? 1:00 PM, Monday, December 12 Where? Meet at Westlake Park and march to the Port of Seattle Why? In response to recent attacks on workers and occupations across the country: Description Actions are already planned in Oakland, LA, San Diego, Tacoma, Portland, [...]
Occupy Portland Prepares for Eviction
[note: An eviction attempt was made on Occupy Portland at 9:30 am this morning, 11/13. For the latest news on this, visit occupyportland.org] Thursday morning Mayor Sam Adams announced that he was issuing an eviction notice for Occupy Portland, effective at 12:01 AM Sunday. While our Mayor has been largely supportive of our protest and [...]
Power Shift West 2009
This last weekend, nearly six hundred college students convened at the University of Oregon to attend the Western regional Power Shift conference (http://www.powershift09.org/). Students came from San Diego, Seattle, Missoula, and even Anchorage. Power Shift has lofty goals for creating sustainable communities, and influencing discourse on climate change policy in local, regional, and national contexts. [...]
