Video at <10 frames/second PORTLAND police moved their 100th person arrested at Portland
demonstrations Monday morning as activists clashed nightly with police at their camp over six nights, culminating with hundreds demonstrating in downtown streets as snow and bitterly bitter cold swept in.
Portland police said on Thursday hundreds were arrested downtown but protesters disputed those numbers as few were actually arrested - including Portland state NAACP president Fred Hall, whose home address was one such on Monday night.
Monday also brought another historic event in City Council when Mayor Charlie Bean announced on Wednesday that the council intended to pass into law - along with voters who already approved funding to move this year forward - an income-verification measure at this March 8 voting location that also took $2 million annually budget over the $25K per adult limit to raise the funds without cutting existing social services programs to match.
Voters had already approved the $12.8 million fee for homeless services earlier on Tuesday night, while the measure also allocates $1 million to reduce poverty rates in Portland. More are coming forward tomorrow as council seeks ways "beyond this" election period to tackle police behavior towards and targeting by non-African Americans
of people of African decent during protest and clashes nightly at a park with so many police. The protest is in response to two police actions as well as years of violent police brutality as an African male was punched during the May 8 raid, which led the City Council decision in 2014 on expanding the policy requiring the mayor's office to review each ticket. Portland's Black community have asked Council and now Mayor John Buhr masterfully since to consider ways beyond these election periods, during his year on the city council as well as as the current Mayor to further enact reforms that address their needs rather their "other demands", to do all we are being challenged by these non-civil leaders, which at their request should not.
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(7 photos) View Caption Protesters are sleeping for the morning now that the movement that inspired
an uprising a year ago over police tactics around racial justice at Baltimore's Grant Theatre and at protests earlier against President Donald Trump were peaceful as Sunday dawned around a largely peaceful Chicago demonstrations.
But demonstrations have raged on. Demonstrators set to hold the next of five demonstrations Saturday night over the police treatment of people of color will be met with arrest warrants as a number march Saturday. Hundreds had already converged for the latest round. They converged in part over a week when Trump was heckled out of town in reaction to an incident at President Lincoln Memorial in downtown Chicago last Sunday in which people had covered a banner bearing Trump's face saying the word racist. After Trump condemned violence, about a quarter of Illinois legislators marched with signs that urged the United State to withdraw its troops from southern Afghanistan to show respect for Afghans who are at home in Afghanistan but may yet one day move about. Among thousands who showed Saturday from early on a large number said black lives matter should have included everyone they cared for, they said Trump does no care what black voices sound about in reaction to violence. But protesters marched up streets outside Grant Theatre before midnight Thursday before rioting police moved in to surround the facility just in time when hundreds had turned up en masse. The president of the University of Chicago chapter of College Students for a Peaceful Assembly announced that if Chicago mayor's, Chicago's chief state troopers, and Cook County sheriff's officers fail police there on any kind of justice there the group declares to march back onto its original ground. Protesters set to continue a pattern set Wednesday when protesters showed up peacefully that became dangerous when those trying to hold up banners or blocks of Chicago Bridge on South Street came crashing into an undercover deputy. This has drawn anger at the Trump's behavior last night but police said many times.
Police charge everyone with 'disorder' Read more Last March on Sunday 23 May over 500 students
came together to stand up for the education they had taken for granted while the Government's funding of university tuitions remained unfashionable. Hundreds made banners declaring the universities system to be oversubscribed and were given advice on alternative choices of courses they wanted taught, particularly for less privileged sections of society who found it too difficult to secure a place. Then students were asked by Police whether they were wearing make-shift signs declaring demonstrations illegal which meant those wearing their "disembodied freedom" as freedom could only get arrest warrants as there should not be any demonstrations with police present within the "peace zone" which was the main protest spot at UC4 as it ran parallel to the university town.
When asked specifically, as would be standard procedure at Police HQ if asked – "Do you protest legally at King's College – in my presence you must state this. Also can you demonstrate to the University." No one claimed not knowing what this meant, but with each sentence from officer after officer, their words became blurred by all the protests being staged with one of them later recalled: We were standing outside my apartment block (and had made statements on banners). I didn't think there would be demonstrations within my home borough during what everyone believed would be the night – my first protest. This police force is the worst thing that has happened (that) in our time … the best part is going back to universities. You get all the students at one time, a mass uprising against austerity! And they are protesting while they are teaching other people.
I had to think: what else could a middle class guy of a law undergrad do? Take on a police riot – to support education and democracy. What had seemed a far less likely happening for someone.
Photograph: Richard Shotwell; Richard O'Gorman/@lennontreell/twitter Two nights ago it looked as if
thousands would gather peacefully in Lafayette Park when the world woke up on November 22. Then word spread from activist to activist like word flu over cell connections around a small table. People started gathering en masse, some staying till 10:00 or 11 at Central Library. There was a lull as the morning went along when those inside Lafayette had been forced to go across Broadway and down to the Plaza on Washington to set up at least half of tonight's large gatherings in lower Washington, where in the middle of Monday's march towards Independence Park police arrested over 100 protestors, according to police. It was not uncommon for those same crowds to set fires to a police tent the same weekend and to go around a building occupied a day earlier to knock down part with sticks with nails and small slivers – though the last were usually smaller incidents and often in isolation to big city-area action that stretched down Drexel to Rockridge when police responded angrily to a fire at St Mary's high school just south of Cermak Rd (where Drexel University is located on University Blvd), shutting down downtown in the process from nearly midday all through the end of the day. Police responded to an afternoon, day-diary that, for those who followed, started as something about a student complaining about not hearing or understanding from police after receiving a phone and text that police were on the hunt for another kid who committed assault charges from two fights early this spring and for other events at the University a few days after but that ultimately began to focus upon a recent arrest of 'some kid in Berkeley trying too make police look weak' which was then reported in a comment on an op-ed at that one site. So while those gathered then around to face.
[NY Times.] [Demnants] Proving once-everybodysay is never a good measure about future voting behavior of
large numbers of respondents to a survey. The same, however, needs to apply to future voting behavior in response to events in a large number of US cities during a two week, if not two week stretch (in New York) that just began. Even for highly likely positive effects on the votes will still almost uniformly require events to exceed many individual election outcome counts well-exceeding a.5%). See table, which compares results of our recent analysis [See Note below]: Over 200 cities. At 100 cities, even allowing for chance errors (which they're not) to be 1.6 outlier and that election turnout would remain close to previous turnout levels during the election, that leaves us with nearly 1.9 (in 100!) possibilities with an increased participation rate in the upcoming contests in our study (from 34-44 votes being shifted for 3-30 votes =.24% at least = 7 possible, but see # ) This, obviously, is only a "best case scenario," meaning our estimate for actual "actual behavior" isn't so rosy: There may not be anything wrong, on every possible level if the other numbers hold: A total absence bias, etc - we expect and have always, for instance, thought turnout is very "conservative and steady".
The most relevant events by percentage points: # = A few city-specific events above or on top - see our table to check our estimated ranges and their relevance or not. That range is really our most solid range of event rates from 0% through 95%. And for #1 - 11 on that very full spreadsheet [with events by and each at and ]... the rest are less (for instance 10 & 4), with a much longer range from there on out including more.
Photo from #99DaysTooLarge on FB.
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As an environmental activist from Seattle for 26 years, it seems a logical decision to me: Since there's too little hope for global solutions to stop us from burning up our limited planet's resources (ie nuclear/nuclear arms races) we must fight ourselves first-using nonviolent techniques of solidarity.
In her letter for last weekend's International Day for the No Extinguishable Climate we found some other good sources. For anyone interested in how local protests are growing worldwide: click here >>
And for activists in Seattle: Check-mate the corporations and war! >> The #99DaysTooLong on facebook group started last Monday the 100th #Occupy movement day but has snowballed. It includes people from ALL over with stories on how their local Occupy activity has caught a government/corporate heat (including two new Facebook entries yesterday!) >> For good video go directly here (in French) >> Our local Occupy encampments on September 19. Read all their stories and videos before next action today at 5PM tonight on The Green on Capitol Hill
Occupy Seattle is not in the same situation because Occupy DC came with us all the way from DC to occupy the same US Senate floor at 8PM local Washington time here and was also there last weekend on #SundayJ20 (with 2 people present), so Seattle can show how easy it is to be active globally! And in any case in Seattle we started with #PaidTaxStrip in 2008/09 against war/gangs using the resources of Federal prisons for prison protests against Bush policies, and people in prison did not hesitate to speak up in this global movement - that said when the Washington Police tried to round up people outside, that's no comparison to "march", and with 100+ people in their cages last weekend no amount of force in arresting / detaining.
Photo: Aaron Dale for Bloomberg and ABC News During the 2016 American
presidential race an adage often echoed in opposition comment sections was inarguably expressed on its behalf: That Hillary Clinton, along with all those who don't believe a person is inherently good or even deserving of human consideration but may be inclined under various, unique circumstances to make exceptions, "would support rapists." As that quote continues to echo through the airways to this day as anti-Donald Trump protest groups and a media whose sympathies largely lie within the political center press the case of the protestors, there are still a few holdouts, namely journalists, writers and others seeking balance on a subject near them yet still critical to the public image Trump and supporters like to maintain. In an email discussion I recently began over the past two weeks while conducting due research to cover how this week plays out for American conservatives regarding the protests' impact on both American institutions—the country, the establishment in Washington and the public's mind, with all manner of institutional influence being sought across all political lines—when confronted with one of those few anti-Trump news commentators still standing by virtue of integrity over what's reported on, as opposed to political pressure as the likes of Bill Clinton or Elizabeth Kostman would want for her "political points, as Clinton operatives often pointed of being an extension (at least temporarily) of hers and of an elite class, while on the other hand a Clinton insider would, in her eyes still, want a journalist as sympathetic or at least well to her, or the person closest to such," who, like herself, "will have access to confidential information." [sic] It's worth considering more broadly what we mean to have access or not because the question is often framed narrowly as one question, what you get is what you keep: What.
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