UPDATES: Portland Holds New Home Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 4, 2011, 9:11 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt </iframe><div style="font-size: 11px;padding-top:10px;text-align:center;width:560px">Watch <a href="http://www.livestream.com/?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="live streaming video">live streaming video</a> from <a href="http://www.livestream.com/occupyptown?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch occupyptown at livestream.com">occupyptown</a> at livestream.com</div></p> <p>Last night, Portland Police used violent force to evict Shemanski Park. Photos and live footage show police in full riot gear aggressively taking down nonviolent protesters. Among other incidents, one 15 year old was smashed in the face with a baton. Undaunted, Occupiers took to the streets, routed lines of riot police, and marched on City Hall. As revelers joined in and the protest continued to grow, the march stopped downtown for a dance party and then returned to Shemanski to defend their new home while celebrating with more dancing and pizza. Proving that our determination cannot be halted, most police had left the scene and Occupy Portland continues to hold public space as of 9am EST (6am PST). <a href="/article/updates-portland-holds-new-home/">Read More...</a></p> </div> <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/updates-portland-holds-new-home/#comments"> 82 Comments</a> </p> </article> <article class="article " id="portland-re-occupies"> <h1><a href="/article/portland-re-occupies/"> Portland Re-Occupies </a></h1> <p class="info"> Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 3, 2011, 8:54 p.m. EST by <a title="View OccupyWallSt's profile" class="user" href="/users/OccupyWallSt/">OccupyWallSt</a> </p> <div class="words"> <p><img src="http://imgur.com/4gCnf.jpg" alt="OccupyPdx re-occupation"></p> <p>Occupy Portland has reoccupied a new home. Marchers arrived at Shemanski Park at the corner of SW Park & Salmon around 5pm PST today and began setting up tents, canopies, and other infrastructure. Two police with batons arrived and threatened the crowd, but were shouted down by the jubilant Occupiers and eventually left. There is an open kitchen and live music on stage. As of 6:30pm PST, there were already over 20 tents set up.</p> <p>There will be a General Assembly at 7pm PST. <strong>Occupy Portland is anticipating an eviction and encourages all supporters in the area to join them in peaceful, nonviolent solidarity tonight!</strong> You can also follow @OccupyPdx and @OccupyOregon on Twitter.</p> <p>Like other occupations across the country, Occupy Portland has recently experienced police repression and was evicted from their original encampment. However, as in other cities, Occupiers have not allowed this to deter their efforts to protest economic inequality. In Portland, supporters have been organizing mobile flash mobs on bicycles to "bike swarm" banks. Meanwhile, Occupations in Los Angeles, Boston, and elsewhere marched today. In Philadelphia, Occupy Philly marched to proclaim: <strong>"You Can't Evict an Idea."</strong></p> </div> <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/portland-re-occupies/#comments"> 46 Comments</a> </p> </article> <article class="article " id="ows-hunger-strike-new-outdoor-occupation"> <h1><a href="/article/ows-hunger-strike-new-outdoor-occupation/"> Occupiers Launch Hunger Strike to Liberate Outdoor Space </a></h1> <p class="info"> Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 3, 2011, 8:52 p.m. EST by <a title="View OccupyWallSt's profile" class="user" href="/users/OccupyWallSt/">OccupyWallSt</a> </p> <div class="words"> <p><img src="//i.imgur.com/AAt7I.jpg" alt=""></p> <p>On Saturday, December 3, in Liberty Plaza, we—THE OWS HUNGER STRIKERS—began a hunger strike. We are striking to demand outdoor space for a new occupation. We are holding our strike at Duarte Square on Sixth Avenue and Canal Street in Manhattan as part of a continued effort seeking sanctuary on Trinity Church’s unused land.</p> <p>This is a call for escalation, in response to the escalated levels of government-enacted violence and repression The Occupy Movement has endured over the last few weeks. In dozens of cities across the nation, Mayors chose to stifle freedom of speech and the right to assemble by evicting peaceful occupations using illegal and and unconstitutional force. Here in New York, on the night of November 14, the City—under orders from Mayor Bloomberg—violently evicted our community from Liberty Square.</p> <p><a href="/article/ows-hunger-strike-new-outdoor-occupation/">Read More...</a></p> </div> <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/ows-hunger-strike-new-outdoor-occupation/#comments"> 193 Comments</a> </p> </article> <article class="article " id="occupy-seattle-joins-wave-of-building-occupations"> <h1><a href="/article/occupy-seattle-joins-wave-of-building-occupations/"> Occupy Seattle Joins Wave of Building Occupations </a></h1> <p class="info"> Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 3, 2011, 10:43 a.m. EST by <a title="View OccupyWallSt's profile" class="user" href="/users/OccupyWallSt/">OccupyWallSt</a> </p> <div class="words"> <p><img src="//i.imgur.com/QfD6j.jpg" alt="Seattle u10 warehouse"></p> <p>Last night, undeterred by the city's destruction of their original encampment, hundreds of <a href="http://occupyseattle.org/">Occupy Seattle</a> supporters occupied a vacant warehouse slated for demolition and condo development. After entering, Occupiers erected barricades, held a General Assembly, and began plans to fix up the space for community use.</p> <p>Using SWAT teams and a ladder truck, police swarmed the warehouse, making 20 arrests and setting an unsettling precedent for the escalating use of military-style tactics against nonviolent occupiers who are liberating public space.</p> <p><strong>Occupy Seattle is currently holding a jail solidarity action in front of the King County jail and are requesting all their supporters show up!</strong></p> <p>Like similar building occupations across the country and the globe, Seattle's occupation of the 10th and Union warehouse signals a new stage of the Occupy movement. Facing a coordinated crackdown on public encampments, occupiers are moving indoors. In the lead up to December 6th, the <a href="http://occupywallst.org/forum/occupy-wall-street-goes-home/">National Day of Action to Occupy Our Homes</a>, Occupations from Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Atlanta to Boston are turning empty and unused buildings into commonly-held resources for our communities, and defending homes from foreclosure and forcible eviction.</p> <p><img src="//i.imgur.com/29sRh.jpg" alt="occupy dc liberates franklin school"></p> <p><a href="/article/occupy-seattle-joins-wave-of-building-occupations/">Read More...</a></p> </div> <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/occupy-seattle-joins-wave-of-building-occupations/#comments"> 73 Comments</a> </p> </article> <article class="article " id="farmers-join-occupy-wall-street-calling-food-justi"> <h1><a href="/article/farmers-join-occupy-wall-street-calling-food-justi/"> Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice </a></h1> <p class="info"> Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 2, 2011, 6:21 p.m. EST by <a title="View OccupyWallSt's profile" class="user" href="/users/OccupyWallSt/">OccupyWallSt</a> </p> <div class="words"> <p><img style="margin-right:0.7em" src=<a href="//i.imgur.com/oJkdU.png">//i.imgur.com/oJkdU.png</a>" alt="Walmart" align="left" /></p> <p>As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities. This <em>Sunday, December 4th</em> food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/199942673420665/">Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.</a>Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corporate control of the food supply.</p> <p>Events throughout the day will call and inspire participants to fight against the corporate manipulation of the agriculture system. An industry that is responsible for using chemical toxins tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens.</p> <p><a href="/article/farmers-join-occupy-wall-street-calling-food-justi/">Read More...</a></p> </div> <p class="view-comments"> <a title="View Comments" href="/article/farmers-join-occupy-wall-street-calling-food-justi/#comments"> 160 Comments</a> </p> </article> </section> <p style="font-weight:bold"> <a href="/archive/Dec-2011/page-9/">Newer Posts</a> | <a href="/archive/Dec-2011/page-11/">Older Posts</a> </p> </td><td id="right"> <h2>History December 2011 </h2> <ul> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Nov-30-2011/"> Nov. 30, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-1-2011/"> Dec. 1, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-2-2011/"> Dec. 2, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-3-2011/"> Dec. 3, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-4-2011/"> Dec. 4, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-5-2011/"> Dec. 5, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-6-2011/"> Dec. 6, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-7-2011/"> Dec. 7, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-8-2011/"> Dec. 8, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-9-2011/"> Dec. 9, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-10-2011/"> Dec. 10, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-11-2011/"> Dec. 11, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-12-2011/"> Dec. 12, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-14-2011/"> Dec. 14, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-15-2011/"> Dec. 15, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-16-2011/"> Dec. 16, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-17-2011/"> Dec. 17, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-18-2011/"> Dec. 18, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-19-2011/"> Dec. 19, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-20-2011/"> Dec. 20, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-21-2011/"> Dec. 21, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-23-2011/"> Dec. 23, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-26-2011/"> Dec. 26, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-27-2011/"> Dec. 27, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-28-2011/"> Dec. 28, 2011</a></li> <li><a style="" href="/archive/Dec-30-2011/"> Dec. 30, 2011</a></li> </ul> <p> <a href="/archive/">Show all</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <footer> <p>this site is brought to you by various radicals at the Occupy Solidarity Network<br> this website is free / open source software on <a href="https://github.com/jart/occupywallst">github</a></p> </footer> <div id="notifications" style="display:none"> <div class="info"> <span>Notifications</span> </div> <div class="items"> </div> </div> <div style="display:none" id="editform" class="editform"> <textarea rows="5" cols="70"></textarea><br> <button class="save">save</button> <button class="cancel">cancel</button> <img class="loader" src="/media/img/ajax-loader.gif" width="16" height="16"> <span class="error"></span> <a href="http://occupywallst.org/forum/moderating-policies-will-be-reposted-somewhere-pro/">Read the Rules</a> </div> <script src="/media/js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/markdown.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/ows.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/userpage.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/article.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/index.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/lazy.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/conference.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/rides.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/attendees.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/markfield.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/chat.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/forum.js?v=43"></script> <script src="/media/js/occupywallst/csrf.js?v=43"></script> <!-- <script src="//chat.occupywallst.org/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> --> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-46982122-1', 'occupywallst.org'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <script> function api(path, data, callback) { if (path.match(/^\/api\/safe\//)) { return $.get(path, data, callback, "json"); } else { return $.post(path, data, callback, "json"); } } $(function() { ows_init({ notifications: [] }); forum_init({per_page: 25}); article_init($(document)); }); </script>
