Labor Community Marches in Solidarity with Occupy Portland

Labor & Community March in Solidarity with Occupy Portland!

Portland, Oregon - October 26, 2011 -

LABOR COMMUNITY MARCH in Solidarity with Occupy Portland! 

On Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. beginning at Director Park
                                                                                                              (SW Park & Yamhill)

       sponsors: Oregon AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice, AFSCME, Laborers 483 and more...

On October 3rd, Occupy Portland was endorsed by Jobs with Justice.  Occupy Portland began when thousands took to the streets on October 6 in downtown Portland to protest economic inequality, the scapegoating of working people, the vilification of labor unions, and the exploitation
of the unemployed, underemployed, and homeless.  Everyday people decided to stand up to transnational economic cartels that have take over our communities.

The end of the march was only a beginning.  The protesters occupy a public park to speak for the 99% and demand the 1% profiteers listen. Put your feet on the streets with Labor, educators, organizers, activists, and Occupy Portland again on October 26th.  Remind everyone the 99% are not just the representatives standing our ground in Oregon and across the nation!  

Join the Oregon AFL-CIO, AFSCME, and more unions for sure to come. The WE ARE OREGON drum core will also be there to put a beat to our steps! Labor Radio will be on the streets...

LABOR won't stand for corporatization of our communities - not on Wall Street and not in Portland,
Oregon! We deserve peace, justice, jobs, & freedom. JOBS not CUTS!

For more info
contact
Jobs
with
Justice
at 503-236-5573

This March is endorsed by the Portland Alliance! 
Send pictures and stories to editor@theportlandalliance.org !

Portland Alliance News!: The Occupation Stands United

Portland Alliance News!: The Occupation Stands United

The right wing press is delusional.
The Occupation is organized, funded, supported, and in charge
of its destiny and our own. Democracy at its best. Get used to it.

The Occupation is endorsed by The Portland Alliance, KBOO,
Jobs with Justice, and every peace, justice, & freedom organization
on the planet. Unions stand in solidarity. Public employees are
on board. Most police and fire departments are in sympathy.
Teachers, universities, and schools are stepping up in support.
Mayors, governors, and national leaders have been tolerant
or supportive of this grassroots uprising.

Our military personnel are tired, bruised, and must no longer be
misused and abused in corporate ambitions abroad when we have
chaos, foreclosure, job losses, homelessness, failing schools, and
skyrocketing health care costs at home. Our military services
stand in fidelity with the people.

Most everybody (99%) stands with Occupy Wall Street, Portland,
and the globe. The 1% are going to have to face facts.

This does not stop or begin with America. This started in Spain,
spread to greater Europe and has crossed every continental divide.

Corporate transnationals who sold out this nation and bought our
government have had their bought-and-paid-for legislators and
leaders give them "bail-out" corporate welfare. This allowed them
to export American jobs while stealing our homes and retirement
funds. Endless corporate welfare for insurance cartels, munitions
firms, body bags, blood, and bombs is no longer an option.

Everyday people decided to rebuild this nation from the ground up.
Cities and communities of people have spoken.

Profiteers, thieves, and con-men will have to reinvest, regroup, and
reform, pay reparations, or go to jail. This populist occupation
movement is peaceful, orderly, and determined. As Eisenhower
(a warrior-peacemaker who warned us about the military industrial
complex) reminded us:

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

~Dwight David Eisenhower~

The Occupation Stands United

The right wing press is delusional.
The Occupation is organized, funded, supported, and in charge
of its destiny and our own.  Democracy at its best. Get used to it.

The Occupation is endorsed by The Portland Alliance, KBOO,
Jobs with Justice, and every peace, justice, & freedom organization
on the planet. Unions stand in solidarity.  Public employees are
on board.  Most police and fire departments are in sympathy.
Teachers, universities, and schools are stepping up in support.
Mayors, governors, and national leaders have been tolerant
or supportive of this grassroots uprising.  

Our military personnel are tired, bruised, and must no longer be
misused and abused in corporate ambitions abroad when we have
chaos, foreclosure, job losses, homelessness, failing schools, and
skyrocketing health care costs at home.  Our military services
stand in fidelity with the people.  

Most everybody (99%) stands with Occupy Wall Street, Portland,
and the globe.   The 1% are going to have to face facts.

This does not stop or begin with America. This started in Spain,
spread to greater Europe and has crossed every continental divide. 

Corporate transnationals who sold out this nation and bought our
government have had their bought-and-paid-for legislators and
leaders give them "bail-out" corporate welfare. This allowed them
to export American jobs while stealing our homes and retirement
funds.  Endless corporate welfare for insurance cartels, munitions
firms, body bags, blood, and bombs is no longer an option.

Everyday people decided to rebuild this nation from the ground up.
Cities and communities of people have spoken. 

Profiteers, thieves, and con-men will have to reinvest, regroup, and
reform, pay reparations, or go to jail. This populist occupation
movement is peaceful, orderly, and determined. As Eisenhower
(a warrior-peacemaker who warned us about the military industrial
complex) reminded us:

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

~Dwight David Eisenhower~

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Chase Manhattan Donates $4.6 million to NYPD

Image courteousy of www.planetd.com

  Chase Manhattan has reportedly donated $4,600,000 to
the NYPD through it's non profit NYC Police Foundation
Fund. The donation was given by Chase a show of
appreciation for all the department's "hard work." The
donation is to be used for the acquisition of new laptop
computers, patrol cars, surveillance and monitoring equipment.
This is the largest private donation to the NYCPF in it's
history. It may help to cover the cost of processing the
700 protester arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge over the
weekend as a part of the NYPD's effort to clamp down
on the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  It seems now corporations can not only buy elected
officials through unlimited campaign contributions by they
can now blatantly buy police protection. With ongoing
protest in lower Manhattan and anti-corporate demonstrations
underway across the nation, this "donation" adds fuel to
the fire.

Occupy Portland Gathering Momentum

Veterans For Peace mark the meeting
site of the 2nd and 3rd GAs, Waterfront Park, Portland

Breaking News!  Occupy Portland was endorsed by Jobs With  Justice on Monday Night!

JWJ hopes to contribute experience and organizing expertise as Occupy Portland is entering the final few days of planning for it's Oct. 6 march through Downtown Portland.

Protesters will gather at Waterfront Park Thursday at 12pm just south of the Burnside Bridge by the site of the Saturday Farmers Market Pavilion.  The JWJ contingent will gather just north of the Burnside Bridge and will join the rest of the group for the march.

Planning for the event has occurred through an ongoing progression of "General Assemblies" (GA)  also held at the Waterfront Park site. The area has become the group's go to spot for gatherings. The latest public gathering was the "know your rights" meeting held on Monday night.
Its purpose was to educate protesters on their legal rights and to give suggestions on what is considered acceptable behavior by both the group (Occupy Portland) and Portland Police Bureau.  Occupy Portland's 3rd General Assembly will be held on Tuesday Oct. 4 at the Waterfront Park meeting area. All peaceful citizens are welcome to attend as current information pertaining to the Oct. 6 event will
be made public. The meeting also provides fellow protesters with an opportunity to network with one another.
     www.occupyportland.com  
This coverage provided by The Portland Alliance, our reporter Patrick Martin was on site.