Occupy Portland: Mayor Sam Adams orders camps cleared at 12:01 a.m. Sunday

[99th_Monkey]

Source: The Oregonian/oregonlive.com

Mayor Sam Adams this morning gave the Occupy Portland encampment an eviction notice of 12:01 a.m Sunday. At a press conference at City Hall, Adams, standing with Chief Mike Reese and City Commissioner Nick Fish, cited the rise in crime around the encampments in ordering demonstrators out of the squares.

He said Terry Schrunk Plaza, a federal park, will be cleared as well."Crime, especially reported assaults, has increased in the area," he said. "Occupy has had a considerable time to share its movement's message with the public but has lost control of the camps it has created."

Occupy Portland representatives also attended the news conference. Occupy Portland volunteer Katy McNulty urged the mayor to negotiate a later deadline. "I think we can obtain a peaceful transition, but in three days?" McNulty said. She said she's worried that the time allowed won't be enough to organize all campers - many who are vulnerable and unprepared to pick up and move.

Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/occupy_portland_portland_mayor.html

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HEADS UP => LAST NIGHT IT WAS BERKELEY, NOW IT'S PORTLAND, THE LARGEST OCCUPY ENCAMPMENT/BEACHHEAD IN USA.

ABOUT 500 PEOPLE CAMPING, BUT MANY ARE HOMELESS, WHICH IS HAPPENING AT MANY OTHER ENCAMPMENTS TOO,
FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, AS THEY HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO FOR SHELTER, DECENT FOOD, ETC.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Inevitable, really.

I feel that Occupy Portland has really nothing to gain from taking a confrontational stance; the city, the Mayor, PoPo have all been rather magnanimous, especially when you compare Occupy Portland with other Occupations. Further, the camp is a pale shadow of what it was when this all started at the beginning of October.

The Occupy Movement can and will continue, but the camp itself has become nonessential.

[99th_Monkey]

2. Tell me about it

Actually better yet, try telling all the "my balls r bigger than yur balls" young firebrands and homeless peeps with
nothing to loose. like flame => gasoline

[99th_Monkey]

3. They're attempting to mobilize those 10,000 peeps who marched on the first day

Question is, how many have become disenchanted with the whole camping thing, cuz it becomes HUGE distraction -- all about OCCUPY Vs. THE POLICE!!! instead of keeping focused on the Wall St. and DC crooks and thugs. And for Occupation is a lose/lose, because if we ACCEPT all homeless people en mass, things become unmanageable due to not enough willing to police themselves w/ Peace&Safety crew, not wanting a knife in them for intervening in a fight (or whatever the reason) ... if we EXCLUDE homeless peeps from being in a public park, if puts us in an an even more untenable situation, because we come off looking like an exclusive club of heartless "Liberal elitists" who are so hypocritical that they are "spurning and excluding" the most victimized and hurting subset in the 99%. Besides, the homeless people were in the parks before we were.

This truly is a classic rock & hard place situation. Personally, I think the police & city know how to play rough better than we do, and so now they have drawn a line, so if we get focused on that line, then we're playing THEIR game, they are reflecting that part of the movement that seeks to create confrontation and pandamonium at all costs, including loosing supporters and people who WANT to OCCUPY in new more creative ways, and not be herded by their narrative into a potentially violent confrontations with the police. I'd rather be getting more awesome, than getting arrested... touches more hearts & builds broader support. As long we allow the city and Police to draw the line, and create convincing narratives about "increased crime, Molotov bomb-throwing Anarchists" etc., the deeper hole we are digging for ourselves.

I don't know how to stop it or change it at this point, as the train wreck has already left the station as near as I can tell. I took what I thought was a decent proposal that could have maybe given more time, not just 48 + hours, to prepare, to have the painful and groundbreaking discussions we need to have, in order to do this together.

[Gore1FL]

4. Wow... Sam Adams... Not well named for this behavior. n/t