Sunday, October 23, 2011

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."

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."

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Checkout the new Portland Alliance, The Fall Fling!

The Fall Issue of The Portland Alliance is
ready to download!
Just Click here:  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/documents/Sept&OctFallFling.pdf

28 pages of Real News for September and October! 

If you like what you see, please send in a subscription,

place an ad, or donate to the Alliance
so we can publish the November issue! 
This page is:      http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2011/FallFlingSeptOct2011/


Monday, October 3, 2011

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. 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Update on the Alliance Underground!

Hello Everyone! 

Breaking News!

The Portland Alliance and KBOO are sponsoring 
VOICES IN ACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS ON FILM NWFILM.ORG

Checkout or download a Poster!    See or download the Schedule!
On Nov. 12 The Alliance brings you Greg Palast at the Bagdad Theatre: 702 SE Hawthorne Boulevard




       
TPA Community Meetings:

Wednesday October 5th:  Writers Workshop
Feedback on current work: novels, writing, essays, poetry, stories, & other...
7-9 or so pm at 5926 N Albina

Tuesday TPA Board Meeting Scheduled for Tuesday, October 11th
at June Key Delta Community Center
from 7-9 pm at 5940 Albina.

Sunday, October 16:   Standing Editorial Committee:
Writers Meeting & BBQ... Out back!
2-8 pm at 5926 N. Albina 

Monday October 24th:  Copy Editing Party
For November Issue 7pm -? pm
at 5926 North Albina




There will be food, bring some to share!
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

The 2011 TPA Summertime Blues Part One is coming!

The Portland Alliance (TPA) has been speaking Truth to Power since 1981."  Beginning as a radical underground newspaper at Reed College in 1968, the Willamette Bridge was transformed into the Portland Scribe, an underground counter-culture  resource, and reinvented as the Alliance in 1981.  The Alliance underground still struggles to survive, published by dedicated organizers, activists, artists, and everyday people who walk in off the streets.  Real news for real people.  Welcome!


The Next Alliance is coming!



Featuring Deborah Z. Lee, William Read, Tom Engelhardt, William Seaman, Elizabeth Rathbun, Walida Imarisha, Michael Munk, Rachael Kennedy, Robin Bloomgarden, Yugen Fardan Rashad, Glen Andresen, Mary Otte, Norman Solomon, Bette Lee, Peter C. Little, Shannon Wheeler, Clyde List, John Laforge, Andrew
Bacevich, William Katz, Kathy Kelly, Winslow Meyers, Mike Klepfer, 
and others! 
Enjoy. ~OO~ Peace, Tim

PS... (Deadline for the September Print Issue is August 15th.

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