Occupy Portland Events
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PLEASE NOTE : Not all the events listed originate with Occupy Portland. They may be widely attended or endorsed by the Occupy movement, in general, or they may be local sponsors that share the goals of Occupy. In that case, the sponsors and other related information is provided. Events can also be sent to ActionCommitteePDX@googlegroups.com
Hit 'em where it hurts, 11/1, 9am-6pm
- Date November 1st
- Time 9AM-6PM
- Location Downtown Portland Bank locations
- Purpose
Our collective demand to stop current banking / corporate greed. Gathering downtown has been making news but corporate heads & stockholders laugh from their estates as we camp out in the rain because they know they still have our money.
They know it's a hassle to change our Direct Deposits and AutoPay/e-Pay of our bills. But it's time to hit them where it hurts - in the wallet.
We would love to see people at these banks lined-up down the block and around the corner all prepared and waiting to close our accounts and switch to a local Credit Union.
Please join in closing accounts at the following banks downtown.
- BofA @ 1001 SW 5th Ave
- Wells Fargo @ 900 SW 5th Ave
- Chase Bank @ 811 SW 6th Ave
- U.S. Bank @ 900 SW 6th Ave
- BofA 121 SW Morrison St. branch (where there's also a Wells Fargo Advisor location)
- Wells Fargo 635 SW 6th Ave branch
- Chase 1239 NW Couch St
- U.S. Bank 321 SW 6th St
This date is memorable and gives us all time to find a local credit union in advance and minimize our inconvenience thereby putting the impact all on the banks. Thank you.
Hawthorne Street Bank Protests, 10/31 - 11/4, 10am - 6:30pm
- Date October 31st through November 4th
- Time 10am - 6:30pm
- Location BANK OF AMERICA - CHASE - WELLS FARGO
ALL IN ONE AREA!!! ALL WEEK!!!! These are the locations that Occupiers are planning to protest at: Bank of America on 3757 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214. Wells Fargo and Chase banks are also in that location.
- Purpose
Vote with your dollar. Get your money out of wall street banks and back into your community by moving your money to a local credit union. Save money by avoiding the new debit card fees banks are forcing on consumers even though the banks continue to rake in record profits. This is a peaceful show of solidarity. Bring signs! We will try to maintain a continual presence at these buildings during business hours throughout the week so come down when you can. Please just do it peacefully :)
- 10 Reasons Bank of America Is the Most Hated Bank in America
Here are ten reasons to take your money out of Bank of America - and park it at a credit union or community bank near you.
Bank of America 10 Reasons to switch from BofA
Boycott Bank Of America Facebook Page
- CHASE PROFITS WHILE THE 99% STRUGGLE
Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase is here to talk about recent economic events and his view on what’s next for the global economy.
- Here are some things he won’t be telling you about
- They bought politicians - 08/10 campaign contributions: $9.7 million
- The politicians gave them in bailout money: $94.7 billion
- After the bailout, they laid off: 14,000 workers
- They raised your bank fees: +249.5%
- Profits for 1996-2010: $153.5 billion
- Profits for the third quarter of 2011: $4.26 billion
- Median JPMorgan Chase bank teller wage: $22,006/yr
- 2010 CEO Jamie Dimon pay: $20.8 million (893 x median teller wage)
- Effective tax rate in 2008: -33.4% (that’s right, MINUS 33.4%)
These are but a few of the despicable practices of JP Morgan Chase.
- The other big banks are equally odious in one way or another.
- Move your money to a Credit Union or local bank!!
- The smart way to change if you have autopay, direct deposit, or other scheduled electronic transactions.
You can follow this seven-step checklist put together by Consumer Reports.
- Step 1: Open your new bank account with a small deposit.
- Step 2: Make a list of all the automatic payments and deposits that are scheduled to go in and out of your old account each month.
- Step 3: If you have direct deposit, ask your employer to reroute your paychecks to your new account. Find out what date the first deposit will occur.
- Step 4: Once you know the date, reschedule each automatic payment or debit to come out of your new account. Make sure to ask what date the change will apply.
- Step 5: Leave a small amount of cash in your old checking account for at least one more month.
- Step 6: Once you’re sure all automatic payments and all direct deposits are coming and going from your new account, electronically transfer the final funds from your old account into the new account.
- Step 7: After the transfer clears in your new account, follow the procedures for closing an account at your old financial institution. Make sure to obtain written confirmation that your account is closed.
You’ll find more details at Defend Your Dollars, a site run by Consumers Union.
General Strike & Mass Day of Action, 11/2
- Date Wednesday November 2, 2011
- Time Rally 4:30pm / March 5:30pm
- Location Terry Schrunk Plaza
- Rally & March Endorsements
- Veterans for Peace - Portland
- Iraq Veterans Against the War - Portland
- Industrial Workers of the World - Portland
- Rose City Copwatch
- PARASOL Climate Collective
- Portlanders To March in Support of Occupy Oakland’s General Strike and to Oppose Police Violence Locally and Nationally
On Wednesday, November 2nd, Veterans and community members from across Portland will rally in support of Marine Corp. Veteran Scott Olsen. The rally will be held at Terry Schrunk Plaza at 4:30 pm followed by a march at 5:30 pm. Olsen, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IAVA), was struck by a police tear gas canister and suffered a cracked skull during an Occupy demonstration Wednesday, October 26 in Oakland.
The event, caught by a number of videos posted on YouTube, outraged young and older veterans alike. A call has gone out from Oakland for cities across the country to say no to violence against the Occupy Movement and no to police violence and to stand in solidarity with the general strike being called for Wednesday in Oakland. IVAW is being supported in this rally by Veterans for Peace, many Iraq, Afghanistan and Viet Nam Veterans across the country, and local Portland organizations, occupiers, and community members.
Additionally, the pledgers for the call for a General Strike If and Only If 30,000 people call for it, call for it to be Non Violent, Distributed, Arrest Adverse, Neighborhood Based actions and discussions. Else we proceed as planned with solidarity with the Rally and March.
- Say No To Police Violence Against Peaceful Protest
- No To Police Violence Towards Anyone
- Sign the petition NOW!
We urge anyone who would like to form and plan their own groups and actions to be carried out autonomously to do so on this date alongside the strike and march, they could be based out of those groups of friends and neighbors that meet sometime during the day. And then perhaps the whole of the metro Portland streams to Terry Schrunk Park as neighborhoods. Whatever it will be, you will have to Self-Organize it.
Below is the proposal passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on Wednesday October 26, 2011 in reclaimed Oscar Grant Plaza. 1607 people voted. 1484 voted in favor of the resolution, 77 abstained and 46 voted against it, passing the proposal at 96.9%. The General Assembly operates on a modified consensus process that passes proposals with 90% in favor and with abstaining votes removed from the final count.
- PROPOSAL
We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%. We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city. All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them.
While we are calling for a general strike, we are also calling for much more. People who organize out of their neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, affinity groups, workplaces and families are encouraged to self organize in a way that allows them to participate in shutting down the city in whatever manner they are comfortable with and capable of. The whole world is watching Oakland. Let’s show them what is possible.
The Strike Coordinating Council will begin meeting everyday at 5pm in Oscar Grant Plaza before the daily General Assembly at 7pm. All strike participants are invited. Stay tuned for much more information and see you next Wednesday.
More Info and downloadable flier: PDF
National Break up with your Bank day/ Bank Transfer Day, Guy Fawkes Day, 11/5
- Date Saturday November 5th, 2011
MOVE YOUR MONEY TODAY IF YOU HAVEN'T YET
More than 61,000 people — and counting — have already signed up to move their money out of the big banks on November 5th, National Bank Transfer Day.
We're moving our money because we've had enough with an economic system that keeps giving bailouts and bonuses to the big banks while the 99% are still struggling to find good jobs. We've had enough with a system that protects loopholes for private jets while cutting education and health care. And we've had enough with CEOs who make millions a year while they lay-off thousands of workers.
- Don’t have an account at a big bank?
Come rally in support of people who are moving their money, make your voice heard, and hear what local politicians are doing to support responsible banking.
- Check out these break-up videos
We are just one part of a coalition of labor and community organizations, fighting for a fair economy - good jobs, education and healthcare. We are individuals, community groups, neighborhood associations, faith organizations and labor united to bring good jobs home.
- This event is endorsed by Occupy cities nationwide as well as many co-sponsors.
Vote with your dollar. Get your money out of wall street banks and back into your community by moving your money to a local credit union.
Save money by avoiding the new debit card fees banks are forcing on consumers even though the banks continue to rake in record profits.
Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline March and Documentary Film, 11/6
- Date Sunday, November 6th, 2011
- Time 2pm - 5pm
- "Hands Around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse"
Hands Around the White House is a protest in objection to accepting the keystone pipeline through the heartland of the US. From tar sands to Texas. In keep with with Nov. 5th events, ( change your bank day) we would like to do Hands Around the Federal Building here in Portland, and we'll be talking about the tar sands.
Many of you probably know about the issue of the tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline. Most of us are here because we recognize fundamental issue around the system. These issues make people aware of how far system has failed. Some issues are directly about survival. The tar sands relates to ecological destruction. Tar sands in Canada is the most costly. for 1 gallon extracted, 4 gallons h20 polluted. Pipeline touches aquifers for 30% of agriculture in this country. the likelihood of leaking pipeline is 100%.
The issue is dark and it highlights how corrupt the system is because it's willing to fund this project, banks bailed out by taxpayer money and those banks are enabling destruction of the climate. This action is demanding President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is proposed to be constructed from the Tar Sands oil fields of northern Alberta through America's Heartland to refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. The pipeline's construction raises extreme concerns about the oil companies' ability to push through catastrophic environmental damage.
There will also be a march to a nearby theater for a free viewing of the new documentary, Pipe Dreams. This is a film on the Keystone XL by Leslie Iwerks and is short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. The action will replicate DC's "Hands Around The White House".
- Purpose
The Tar Sands/ Keystone XL pipeline is one of the biggest looming disaster in North America, but most people have never heard of it. Please watch this 90 sec. video and this 4 minute video by Josh Fox, Academy Award nominated producer of Gasland.
PLEASE INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
DIVERSITY MARCH, 11/12
- Location Waterfront park
- Date November 12, 2011
- Time 12:00PM Rally / 2:00PM March
- In support of education, health care and job opportunities for all
- In support of justice and financial reform
- POWER IN UNITY
We are workers. We are black. We are straight. We are Hispanic. We are men. We are gay. We are rich. We are women. We are unemployed. We are Middle Eastern. We are poor. We are white. We are students. We are people of faith. We are struggling. We are active. We are Asian. We are atheists. We are everything in between. We are many.
- WE ARE THE 99% and WE ARE UNITED
- Against the greed of Wall Street that has
- Damaged our economy,
- Destroyed our jobs,
- Forced foreclosure on our homes,
- Polluted our environment
- Corrupted our democracy.
- Here are some things we are fighting for
- A better quality of life
- Health care for all
- Education reform and make the higher education accessible for all
- Distribute the world's wealth equally with all
- Put an end to wars and stop killing innocent people
- Stop once and for all, the divisions and any discrimination among people.
- Protect the environment of our planet in a more strict way because it is the only one we have and is dying.
- Create jobs in the country and stop sending them to other places
- To have more benefits in the jobs and with better conditions
- Web page
- Occupy Portland
Black Friday Mourning March, November 25, 2011
- We propose a Silent March and a day of mourning on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, November 25.
Marchers will wear black, carry candles appropriate for a vigil, and remain silent.
For decades our leaders have guided Americans towards destructive emotions. We were taught to FEAR terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. We were taught that GREED was the core value of the American dream. We were taught to TRUST in our financial systems, that they were “too big to fail”. We see now that we were cold-heartedly manipulated.
As we began to understand the illusion of these emotions imposed upon us, we reacted with an emotion of our own. That anger took us to the streets. It created the Occupy movement. It’s been several weeks now, and our anger still lives, but as we move forward in our efforts towards action, we must first process another necessary emotion that we all share, BETRAYAL.
Whether we in the 99% participate in the movement actively, or quietly observe from home, we share a feeling of utter betrayal from the very government and financial institutions which were supposed to protect us. Let's make that real. It’s time to express our sense of BETRAYAL and allow ourselves to mourn together. This will be an opportunity for us to unite in a very real and powerful sense. Once we acknowledge our pain, we'll be better equipped to personally recover and to take our nation back from those who betrayed us.
- Apart from the resonance of the name "Black" Friday, this march is not a comment on the commercialism associated with this day.
The route and times of the Black Friday march in Portland are yet to be determined.