{"id":14458,"date":"2011-11-11T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14458"},"modified":"2011-11-11T00:19:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T08:19:28","slug":"occupy-portland-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14458","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Portland News"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I know this is not a normal post for Alas, but I’m going to use my power as a mod to use Alas to spread the news about Occupy Portland<\/a>]<\/p>\n

As folks may know, Mayor Sam Adams has declared Saturday at midnight to be the eviction time for Occupy Portland’s camps at Chapman and Lonsdale Parks. In preparation for that, Occupy Portland is going to carry out a massive cleaning and voluntary tent dismantling program Friday and Saturday. Anyone in Portland who supports Occupy Portland, has free time Friday or Saturday, and would like to help out, please come down and join the cleaning crew.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Occupy Portland is planning a family friendly celebratory evening of Occupation Saturday evening, so anyone who is comfortable with large crowds and who supports the occupation, please come down. From the experience of other cities, it is very hard for the police to move against thousands of people peaceably assembled. Even if you don’t want to stay past midnight, your physical support would still be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n

Occupy Portland has been through a rough week or two, with a few foolish and destructive people doing a variety of foolish and destructive things, and a general slide towards failing sanitation and some seriously reckless drug use (I’m not going to bother hunting up links, just google Occupy Portland, our local paper has done a stellar job of chronicling OP’s failings). We want to use this weekend to revitalize and refocus the occupation. Whether we keep the parks or not, we need to take this opportunity to clean things up and gauge community support.<\/p>\n

I say “we”, but of course I speak for no one but myself. I am not the voice of Occupy Portland, just one active supporter amongst many.<\/p>\n

Anyone who is not a Portlander who is reading this, please redistribute this information to anyone you know in Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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