Occupy Portland’s peaceful rally, march attracts thousands

[me b zola]

Source: Portland Tribune

Thousands of protestors took to the streets of downtown Portland Thursday afternoon to voice their displeasure with corporate America.

The rally and march organized by Occupy Portland is the latest in a series of demonstrations across the country that began in mid-September as Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan’s financial district. It has grown to include similar groups in more than a dozen major cities.

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After the noon rally in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, West Burnside Street and Broadway were filled with signs and chants from people of all ages and races voicing their disapproval of social and economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporate money in government

Read more: http://portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=131794580815037000

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There is a wonderful slideshow at the link :)

[me b zola]

1. The right is wrong

[Myrina]

2. OMG lookit that jobless hippie mob-member!

:rofl:

[kestrel91316]

3. Yay! No hippie like an old hippie.

[LuckyLib]

4. "It's all young alienated drop-outs with nothing better to do."

I keep hearing/reading about how this is a young person's protest -- yet I see folks of every age in every photo on the web. Whose interests are served by convincing middle America that this movement is solely that of hooligans? Hmmmmmm.

[me b zola]

5. The crowd was from every imaginable demographic

There were many, many older people, people of all races and economic groups. It really was beautiful yesterday to see us all come together and engage in conversations and share our stories.

Yeah, those who would like to see the movement fail will flat out lie about who we are. We truly are the 99%.

[quakerboy]

6. Lots of people

Its chancy making guesses from within a crowd, perspective being what it is. The organizers claimed an unofficial count of 10,000. The police went with 4000-5000

My personal guess would be closer to 8000, based on the estimate that pioneer square holds 10k. The upper end was jam packed, spilling onto the street, but the lower end had plenty of room.

All ages, all types of people. Lots of youth, but everyone else was there too. Police were completely chill every time I encountered them, I never saw so much as a frown in the interactions between the occupiers and the police.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. nope. 10,000 plus. Pioneer square fits 10,000 and it was overflowing!

The Oregonian this morning admitted it. :)

[99th_Monkey]

7. HERE'S A FEW PICS from OccupyPDX yesterday - Portland made me so proud

Estimates of crowd size range from 7,000 - 10,000 ... and we were not quiet about it.

At last minute cops said we could be on the streets (not just on the sidewalks as
we were originally told) which helped set cooperative tone for the march.

[David Sky]

9. Nice pictures, thanks for sharing this with us!

I bet this will continue in many cities for the next year and a quarter.

Republicans caused the downfall that led to all this, and they are holding up any attempts to improve the situation, hoping to un-seat that black guy in the White House... I see it as pure ignorance of economics and just plain racism in the U. S. Congress. Sorry, but that's my view of all this mess.