If you can only watch one video watch the last of these three above the fleur-de-Kos. We may be poor, unemployed, and homeless but it is we the 99% that are the creative class. We are the movie makers, builders, code writers, and activists.
Inspiration:
On May Day in Portland
7:30am
Student Strike
501 North Dixon Street (PPS Headquarters)
Students on Strike is the beginning of a student led campaign against budget cuts and the falling quality of our schools. Rally at PPS Headquarters and nonviolently shutdown work; this action is building towards the May 11th mass demonstration at Pioneer Square currently being organized by Teachers, Parents and Students.
9 AM
LAND LIBERATION & SPACE RECLAMATIONPORTLAND LIBERATION ORGANIZING COUNCIL (PLOC)
9 a.m. Woodlawn Park (at NE Dekum Street)
Land liberation with PLOC and friends! Show up ready to reclaim land as part of a community resistance event and have fun at a block party. Text @ploc-openrrn to 23559 to join our Rapid Response Network and stay up-to-date on further developments: liberatepdx
11:30AM
MAYDAY GENERAL STRIKE MARCH
An unpermitted event, “Friendly to otherwise unfriendly tactics”
Rally: 11:30-12:30
March: 12:30-?
Assemble under the Westside Burnside Bridge (Saturday market location)
3:30 PM
PERMITTED MARCH AND RALLY
This will be the traditional large, ‘family-friendly’, permitted and legal event.
2PM Tabling begins for community groups
3:30 Permitted Rally begins.
4:30 Permitted March begins.
6PM March returns to South Park Blocks (estimated).
6PM
CELEBRATORY DANCE PARTY
Gather at the South Park Blocks for a roaming dance party to celebrate the day’s events and revel in community.
Sun Apr 29, 2012 at 11:51 PM PT: HA! I haz ustream channel:
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