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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Occupy / Courts Judge's Ruling on Occupy Prosecutions Threatens DA's Reliance on "Violations"
Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:03 PM
Thanks to a potentially far-reaching ruling by Multnomah County Judge Cheryl Albrecht, a whole mess of Occupy Portland-related misdemeanor cases that had been busted down to time- and cash-saving citations, or "violations," may now have to be prosecuted as vigorously as any other criminal case.
Instead of the usual routine for so-called violation trials—hearings without a defense attorney, in front of a judge, with the threat of fine, but not jail time or probation—the Occupy defendants covered by Albrecht's ruling will now be entitled to jury trials and public defenders. And the burden of proof will rise to "beyond a reasonable doubt."
The ruling, issued late Monday, came in response to a motion by attorney Bear Wilner-Nugent, the lead attorney on a case with some 20 occupiers named as defendants. It's technically binding only on the current case before Albrecht, but it could wind up affecting dozens of other non-Occupy cases, gleeful defense attorneys tell the Mercury—under-cutting a reliable budget-stretching strategy by the Multnomah County District Attorney's office and maybe even changing the way officers interact with protesters.
"They're going to have to give our clients court-appointed lawyers," Wilner-Nugent says, "or they're going to have to dismiss the cases."
Jeff Howes, the senior deputy district attorney in charge of misdemeanor cases, didn't return a miessage seeking comment about Albrecht's ruling. Deputy District Attorney Brian Lowney said only that "we're looking it over, and we're considering our response."
Politics Factcheck: Is Oregon's Gas Tax Revenue Decreasing?
Posted by Sarah Mirk on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Hundreds of people packed into Portland State University's Lincoln Hall last night to hear the top three mayoral candidates discuss Portland's favorite nerdy topic: transportation. I moderated the debate along with PSU Dean Lawrence Wallack and the candidates spelled out their approaches to transit planning, making the city safer for biking and walking, how to create jobs around active transit and, of course, how to pay for it all. It was an interesting debate—at one point, Jefferson Smith used a metaphor from Where the Red Fern Grows to explain the problems with the CRC.* Definitely go read Jonathan Maus's extensive write-up over at BikePortland.org!
While most of the night was the convivial politeness you'd expect in a mayoral race between three Portland Democrats, there was a little bit of backbiting between Eileen Brady and Jefferson Smith.
Asked about new revenue sources to fund transportation, Smith said that the gas tax revenue is decreasing and offered some new ideas like variable parking rates and a street maintenance fee. When it was her turn, Brady sniped, "Jefferson, you need to do your homework..." and said that gas tax revenues were increasing (she also didn't offer any new revenue ideas, suggesting—as I understood it—that the city should just downsize PBOT).
So is gas tax revenue increasing or decreasing? To the wonky graphs!
Occupy The Simmering Battle Between Occupy and the Black Bloc
Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Last night's anti-police-brutality march—a chaotic brew of nuisance vandalism, bickering among participants, and, yes, reports of heavy-handed arrests—was maybe more useful than it seemed in the dim glow of all the talk of smashed windows and hyped news releases. (H/T to Jess E. Hadden for the Ustream video above.)
It's brought back to light, on a local level, questions about the permeability of Occupy's message and massing—and the relative ease in which groups whose aims run counter or even merely neutral to the movement's overall focus on economic inequality can wind up distorting public and media perceptions of all the inchoate aims the Occupy movement is actually all about.
In this case, it was the return of the Black Bloc-style of petty destruction/protesting Portland has long been familiar with but which had largely been absent from most mainstream Occupy events. Tension between the factions has been simmering for months—I remember hearing about it during the November eviction of Occupy's downtown camp and actually seeing it outside Terminal 5 during the Port of Portland protest in December.
But last night it bubbled over—and like with so much of Occupy Wall Street, what happens in one town is often a reflection of what's happening nationally.
It's a fight that seems to be coming to a head everywhere.
To wit: A column yesterday on Truthdig, by Chris Hedges, ripped into Black Bloc tactics as a "cancer" on the Occupy movement out to hijack what it stands for.
LGBTQI-Z It's Not Over Until We Say It's Over
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:29 PM
The decision in California today is heartening—even if no same-sex couples will be getting married in California anytime soon, even if the ruling is so narrowly worded that it applies only to same-sex couples in California. But, hey, let's celebrate! I'm at the airport in Dallas, where I'm enjoying a celebratory Patrone margarita with salt and extra salt. This drink tastes like my husband looks in a Speedo. So, hey, let's hear it for 9th Circuits and good tequila and husbands and Speedos and husbands who look good in Speedos! (I have one of those; Terry, sadly, does not.)
The haters, of course, announced in advance that they would appeal a favorable-to-justice-and-equality decision. Because they hate. They're going to appeal this ruling to the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and, if justice and equality gets a favorable ruling from the full 9th Circuit, they're going to appeal this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And when it gets to the Supreme Court we're probably going to...
Well, before we talk about that—before we waste our precious minds thinking about Antonin and Sam and Clarence and John weighing in on our civil equality—let's just take a second to bask in the meaning of this decision. Equality, justice, fairness. All that. But for me the most profound meaning in today's ruling—it's single biggest takeaway—is this: no single victory for the haters, no "successful" effort to write bigotry into any single state's constitution, will end the fight for marriage equality or the fight for the full civil equality of LGBT people. (Gotta do something about that trans-exclusive DADT repeal; gotta pass ENDA; gotta pass Al Franken's Student Non-Discrimination Act.) They might win one—they might win again and again—but the fight for our full civil equality isn't over until we say it's over.
And it's not over until we win.
More after the jump...
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Mercury The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o' the Day!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Hey, remember the classic I, Anonymous entitled "Curb Your Snake"? Well, the owner of the snake has finally responded! YAYYYYYY!!!
My "devilish reptile friend"? His name is johnny, and he is my little baby. You scared the crap out of him when you ran out of the bathroom with your hands up in the air screaming. And since you had your arms in the air, where was your baby? Cause I didn't see or smell it, and according to your repulsive description, we all should have. All I saw was a deranged young woman fleeing from the bathroom as if all hell were chasing her.
YESSSSSSSS. I love the I, Anonymous blog so much! It's like the court of public opinion for assholes!! DO YOUR PART, and drop off your opinion today!
Election 2012 You Know Who Hasn't Won in a While?
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Rick Santorum, that's who! So, naturally, Santorum is leading in two of the three caucuses held tonight—Minnesota and, especially, Missouri. Romney leads in Colorado, where he won in 2008 with more than 60% of the vote. Pertinent questions include:
· Are we looking another Santorum surge right in the face?
· Will Ron Paul continue to underperform?
· Will Gingrich do worse than expected? If so, is that a sign that last week's weird performance was his last chance with voters?
· Is Mitt Romney completely off-putting for middle-class Republicans?
Tonight we'll find out! Results will start pouring in at 5 pm, PST.
Tech / Music Now You Can Remix Typhoon!
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:50 PM
The "stem" files are posted over on Typhoon's Facebook page, but Laxer and the band generously agreed to not require that you "like" Typhoon in order to access the files. (Other bands, take note.) It's uncommon for a band to make these kind of stem files public, so here's to Laxer and Typhoon allowing us the chance to get our hands dirty.
Here's the official info:
Typhoon's audio engineer Paul Laxer (http://paullaxer.wordpress.com/) releases stems from the original recordings via their Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/wearetyphoon). Tracks are organized, isolated, and labeled. Re-mixer Heaven.The songs included are "Summer Home," "The Honest Truth," and "CPR" parts 1 and 2. Typhoon kicks off a tour in March which will take them down to SXSW; they also have become the only Typhoon in town following the closure of the chain of Thai restaurants sharing that name.One can simply drop these files into an audio program; the audio files line up to each other. When all files are set to the same level it re-creates the original pre-master mix. Even if they are not a sound nerd, people will still get a kick out of soloing each track...
The Twitter / Politics Oregon Republican Wants to Outlaw Online Organizing
Posted by Goldy on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:59 PM
If you're wondering how much right-wingers truly hate America, you need look no further than Republican-sponsored Oregon Senate Bill 1534, which would create the felony crime of "aggravated solicitation" for, you know, tweeting...
(2) A person commits the crime of aggravated solicitation if, with the intent of causing two or more other persons to engage in specific conduct constituting a crime, the person uses an electronic communication to command or solicit other persons to engage in that conduct at a specific time and at a specific location.
(3) In a prosecution under this section, the state need not prove that the electronic communication was received by specific persons or that the defendant intended for specific persons to engage in the criminal activity.
That's right, if you use Twitter, or Facebook, or a blog, or email to help organize, or even just let people know about some event, where some crime is ultimately committed, you could be found guilty of a felony, punishable by as much as 20 years in prison. And prosecutors don't even need to prove that anybody actually read your tweet, or that you ever intended for a crime to be committed.
For example, let's say you tweeted (or retweeted) "Come join me at today's Occupy Portland protest at Chapman Square", where some folks were ultimately arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. Under SB-1534, you could be charged with a Class C felony!
More after the jump...
TV Okay, No More Ignoring the Elephant in the Room... WHO WATCHED SMASH LAST NIGHT??
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Stop acting embarrassed, and just admit it: You watched the NBC debut of Smash last night, and you ashamedly kind of loved the shit out of it, didn't you? Sure, it had a wobbly beginning, and DEBRA MESSING (ugh!)—but if you're a fan of the THEE-AH-TUH or a fan of making fun of the THEE-AH-TUH, Smash had some decent songs, pretty good performances, and was chock-a-block full of hilarious, cringe butt moments. Watch the whole thing here if you like, or scenes from the coming season below, and let me know... should we be recapping this show or what? (Remember: If it helps, comments can be anonymous!)
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Health / Fashion Mr. Goodbody Called, And He Wants His Pants Back
Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:46 PM
"This is an idea that we have been thinking about for a while," say the makers of these terrifying, biologically accurate leggings...
- Black Milk Clothing
To which I say, "Oh, Jesus Christ, why??!!!" It's been done (related: my parents once took us to see Mr. Goodbody live, and he canceled the show because he was sick—can you believe that shit?), and it's also been re-done. Please, please, put some pants on, girl.
LGBTQI-Z California Overturns Prop 8; Love Wins Again
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Awesome news from Cali: A federal appeals court has ruled that the homo-hatin' same-sex marriage ban Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, garnering cheers from awesome people who are in favor of basic human rights and more grumbles from grumpy pants haters who now vow to take their battle to the Supreme Court. Listen to them seethe. From Huff Post:
"We are not surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage — tried in San Francisco — turned out this way. But we are confident that the expressed will of the American people in favor of marriage will be upheld at the Supreme Court," said Brian Raum, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal aid group based in Arizona that helped defend Proposition 8.
And now, a more reasoned opinion.
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," states the opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court's most liberal judges.
Celebrate. We won another one. And we'll keep on winning.
Cats "Wing Eating Contest, Except the Wings are Cat Legs"
Posted by Alison Hallett on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:29 AM
TV Kristen Wiig is in This Week's Portlandia... Soooo, You Know
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Hey guys! Kristen Wiig is on Portlandia this week! And since last week's clip was definitely better than usual (YOU MUST ADMIT IT), that must mean that this week's episode is going to be even better than that! Am I right? I must be right, right? Science dictates that I'm right! Check out this clip in which Kristen is a crazed fan of the indie group Cat Nap (with special guest star: The Bagdad).
Oh, "science." Why have you failed me again?
Fashion "Get Sexy, Sing Karaoke"
Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:59 AM
I had occasion over the weekend to drop into a party thrown by the Solestruck staff, where the booze flowed and the karaoke performances were met with appreciative enthusiasm by its platform-heeled attendants. Apparently they had a righteous good time too, because they've decided to throw another karaoke party called "Get Sexy, Sing Karaoke" in the much smaller confines of their store. Billing it as a pre-Valentine's Day event, you can call your shoe shopping what you want, but the bottom line is they'll be pouring you sake and beer, handing you a mic, and enticing you with new arrivals from brands like Acne (unfortunate name, yes, but a favorite nonetheless) and See by Chloe. Plus, a trunk show of jewelry by One Two Three and Product of Play. Stop in to get raunchy on Friday, February 10 from 7-10 pm, then go out and get 'em, tiger.
(Click over to MOD for some shoe eye-candy plucked from the new arrivals.)
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Occupy / Cops Woman Arrested in Last Night's Police Brutality March: "I Was Outside My House"
Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:44 AM
We've been hearing more and more this morning about some of the rough conduct by police during last night's anti-police-brutality march in Southeast—including the story of a woman who said her face was cut open, with her glasses broken, after officers grabbed her from a sidewalk and shoved her to the ground.
Witnesses say the arrests came after the petty vandalism and property damage—smashed car and restaurant windows, tagged cars, and strewed trash—that the Mercury and other media outlets reported on last night. The Portland Occupier has a pretty detailed blow-by-blow of the arrests on its blog.
The march—in solidarity with some 400 people arrested and tear-gassed in Oakland last month—wasn't an official Occupy Portland event and was organized autonomously by people within the movement along with other groups. It wound up getting a huge burst of publicity after police sent out an all-points bulletin that all but warned they would respond with force.
"I was outside my house," Emmalyn Garrett, an Occupy PR team member, told the Mercury this morning. "I came outside to check out what was going on, and I was arrested just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had not been breaking any laws last night. I was not one of the people who smashed windows. Those people were long gone."
Update 4 PM: Garrett called back to clarify she'd been referring to what another arrestee had said about being grabbed "outside my house," and that she was along for the march but on the sidewalk when she was arrested.
Micaiah Dutt, a former police liaison for Occupy Portland, told me he saw at least one completely unaffiliated person arrested in similar fashion last night: a man who showed up to tell both cops and protesters to get off his lawn.
"He wasn't even part of the march," Dutt says. "He's pretty shaken up."
News reports say at least 10 people were arrested—Garrett says she was within a group of about seven people who were taken into custody in what she called "snatch and grabs," a tactic similar to the police bureau's response to a Tahrir Square solidarity march last month. I've got a message in with the lead police spokesman, Lieutenant Robert King, to ask about the names and dispositions of those arrested.
Update 11:20 AM: The police bureau sent out a statement identifying the eight adults arrested last night (two other arrestees were kids) and confirming that no one arrested was actually accused of property damage. Read it after the cut.
Election 2012 Romney Tries to Wipe Santorum Off the Map
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Mitt Romney was attacking Rick Santorum with everything he's got yesterday:
The Romney campaign released a barrage of opposition research on Santorum on Monday morning, the type of offensive tactic that had previously been reserved for Newt Gingrich and, before him, Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The former Massachusetts governor's campaign worked to link Santorum to pork barrel spending during his time in Congress, and touting his endorsement of Governor Romney in the last presidential race.
Why now? Because of the three races tomorrow—Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri—Romney only has a decisive lead in Colorado. And he demonstrates a serious weakness in the midwest. Out of all the races so far, Romney has dominated with wealthy voters and only managed to tie, at best, once the voters' annual income dibs below two hundred thousand dollars a year. Santorum does better with poor voters, and so the Romney campaign is preparing to do to Santorum what they did to Gingrich in Florida—open up the sewage pipes and hope to make the whole field so toxic that poor voters decide not to bother.
I have my doubts about whether this attack will work on Santorum—he doesn't have Gingrich's mile-high victim complex, so he won't inflate the attacks into a cosmic injustice—but this kind of all-out negative attack suggests that Romney is still a fundamentally weak candidate. Even though the media has fallen for this bullshit "momentum" story out of Nevada, the nomination is still in doubt, and Romney's people know it.
Comic Books / Film New Spider-Man Trailer Boldly Promises Same Old Spider-Man Who's Possibly Kind Of a Little Bit Different Maybe
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Aside from a brief, predictable period in high school when he was replaced by Holden Caulfield, Peter Parker's been my favorite fictional character since I was old enough to know what a Spider-Man was. Which means, I think, that I should be really stoked about The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony's attempt to reboot the webslinger even though Sam Raimi's last spider-movie is only five years old. This time around, Sony's desperately trying to convince us that Amazing is the "untold story"—which mostly seems to hinge on the facts that this time, Peter's annoying parents are going to be involved somehow (UGGGHHH), and now he has mechanical webshooters that have little flashing lights on them. It's a whole new Spider-Man!
I'm legitimately curious about two things here, though: The casting, which seems fantastic across the board, and the humor, which was the biggest thing missing from Raimi's movies. One of Spidey's defining qualities is that he's a smartass, but Tobey Maguire was always too busy moping to crack a joke. Give me a funny Spider-Man any day, and if he just so happens to be in a movie with Denis Leary and Emma Stone? Hell, I might even look past his sparkly webshooters.
TV Jimmy Kimmel Ruins the Super Bowl
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Election 2012 Obama Kicking Romney's Ass in State Polls
Posted by Goldy on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Mitt Romney may be consolidating his lead in the Republican presidential primary, but according to Darryl's meta-polling analysis over at HA, that hasn't translated into a leg-up in the head-to-head contest with President Barack Obama. With the latest state polls averaged in, Obama now has 99.6 percent chance of winning, with a mean of 335 electoral votes.
You know, assuming the polling data is accurate, and the election were held today.
As always, you should read the full post, and the methodology FAQ before automatically dismissing these results.
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News Good Morning News!
Posted by Sarah Mirk on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Smash the State Locally Owned Italian Restaurant! An anti-police brutality march in SE Portland last night starts peacefully, but winds up smashing the window of Genoa.
Priorities USA Action: Three random buzzwords stuck together? No! Obama's new Super PAC!
Dirty Money: While he's now up for taking massive checks from anonymous people, Obama will not take money from Mexican fugitives, dammit!
Comeuppance: The anti-abortion VP of the Susan G. Komen foundation resigns.
Downsizing: The US is planning to cut its Iraqi embassy staff by half.
Myanmar Lightens Up: It seems that media censors are letting a little light into the country of dictatorship.
Greece Fire: Activists in Greece protest as the government weighs an EU bailout deal.
Now That's Taking Action: A school with two teachers accused of sexually abusing students replaces the entire staff, pending investigation.
Unacceptable Repression: Iran bans dolls of The Simpsons, saying they promote Western culture.
Whattup Nerds! It's Charles Dickens' birthday!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Occupy Black Bloc Trashes Belmont; Cops Make Arrests
Posted by Nathan Gilles on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Shortly after 6 pm, with red-and-black flags waving, several dozen protesters left Colonel Summers Park, as promised, for an anti-police-brutality march that had the Portland Police Bureau concerned enough that it sent out a pre-emptive arrest warning earlier in the afternoon.
The marchers were chanting in unison, “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, FUCK THE POLICE!” And, yes, they were mostly members of the anarchist Black Bloc crowd, dressed in the usual black and with bandanas over their faces.
Windows were smashed. Cars were tagged. And, also as promised, Portland cops—some in riot gear—were on hand and ready with the handcuffs. (And also with some taunts of their own.) The Oregonian reported some nine arrests in connection with the protest, an unpermitted march meant to show solidarity with the 400 Occupy protesters arrested in Oakland last month. (The Oregonian over-stated the number of protestors they counted 175, I counted no more than 80).
As we mentioned earlier, tonight's march wasn't technically an Occupy march—although many of the marchers are Occupy Portland participants. And that tension was on display as the Black Bloc helped escalate the protest into a mini riot.
The first incident was on SE Yamhill, when a car trying to avoid the marchers slowed to a near stop. Seeing an opportunity, masked protesters spray-painted the driver's rear window with an anarchy symbol.
“Why are we spray painting regular people’s cars!?” yelled a woman from the crowd.
Sports Blazers vs. Thunder - Hot Live Blog Action
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers bring out the nice silverware and host the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder are the best team in the NBA and are so good they are also in first place in the NHL's Western Division, top ranked in men's and women's NCAA basketball, can bake a soufflé without it collapsing, and they collectively took home top prize at the Scripps Spelling Bee (Kevin Durant knows how to spell "Cymotrichous" and Kendrick Perkins can use it in a sentence). But the Thunder aren't perfect—they finished fourth in the Republican primaries in Nevada—and Portland knows this, having handed OKC their lone homecourt defeat this season on January 3.
Let us commence the live-blogging!
Food / Events OMSI Science Pub Tonight: Chocolate!
Posted by Courtney Ferguson on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Aack! The best OMSI Science Pub is happening tonight at the Bagdad—it's the chocolate meets lust edition, just in time for hearts 'n' farts day. Go fill your brain with science and your gaping maw with dark, dark chocolate (to be safe you might bring your own sweet treats—no word on if there'll be samplin's).
Fill in the information holes, trusty press release:
OMSI Science Pub: Lust, Chocolate and Prairie Voles: The Neuroscience of Pleasure and LoveIs the brain chemistry behind our love for chocolate equivalent to that which drives infatuation with a new lover, the love of a particular song, or addiction? How does the brain sort out pleasure and discomfort? What drives our decisions to stay with one person for life or go from one lover to another, never settling down? This pre-Valentine's Day Science Pub will focus on these and other questions that reveal much about how neurochemical changes can have major effects on our behaviors—how we love, what we love, and who we love.
Tonight at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne
7 pm, $5, all ages
Occupy / Cops Proactive Cops Worry About "Tone" of Anti-Police-Brutality March
Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Portland police, in a proactive messaging play, are sounding an early alarm over an anti-police-brutality event planned for tonight at Southeast's Colonel Summers Park—tying it to Occupy Portland and warning they'll be prepared to make "arrests as necessary."
The unpermitted rally and march—in solidarity with the 400 protesters arrested last month in Oakland—is planned for 6 pm, and police are worried the whole thing will turn ugly. This concern is apparently based on fliers and handouts promoting the event. The note comes after an official Occupy rally in solidarity with Egypt late last month spilled from Pioneer Courthouse Square and onto downtown streets—something the police really don't like—bringing out one of the most forceful police responses to an Occupy event in months.
Witness this selection from the cops' statement (read the full thing after the cut):
Local flyers indicate this is a "a rally and march in Solidarity with Occupy Oakland and against corruption". The local literature also references the Portland Police's use of force as well.Since the occupy movement began in Portland, Occupy Portland has emphasized the need for peaceful demonstrations. Portland Police have also worked to ensure safe and peaceful events for all. Police are concerned about tonight's rally and march because the tone and content of available information is decidedly more hostile and escalating.
The members of the Police Bureau are sworn to protect all people rights to free speech and keep the peace. However, we must balance the competing rights of all people in the community so that everyone‚s rights are protected. There is no permit for tonight's rally and march, but those in attendance will still be expected to follow all laws. If this does not occur, the Police Bureau will take appropriate action to include arrests as necessary.
Misc "I'm Not Modeling"
Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Here's one way to preemptively strike against attacks on your DIY Facebook modeling shots:
A couple more cuties after the break.
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