"Downtown Portland": A Detailed Overview of the Portland Protests
Blatant Calm provides reassurances you may share with loved ones outside of Oregon as to what is and is not happening in Portland, and why.
Blatant Calm provides reassurances you may share with loved ones outside of Oregon as to what is and is not happening in Portland, and why.
A Boop Troop Eugene first-time live streamer recounts her direct observations of the peacekeeping Wall of Moms, the All Lives Matter crew with their insidiously armed shields and guns, the march, the jail, the incident, the tear gas and pepper bullets, and the incredibly violent take-down and arrest of an unarmed, 14-year-old girl ...
Photos from a live stream by Tre Stewart.
Reports say in PDX feds fire on someone's head enough to crack their skull, arrest a person for meditation, gas crowd indiscriminately (use of expired gas that can turn to deadly cyanide), assault medics trying to administer care.
A canvas for catharsis has emerged at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland, Oregon. Public art for healing, unity, and action has transformed the boards on the Apple iStore and across from the Louis Vuitton store on SW Yamhill, between SW 4th and 5th Ave in downtown Portland into statements of grief and resolutions to pursue justice.
In the fight for justice, dancers artists and MC’s join together to create a visual arts film focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. Through creative expression this film is an artistic response to systematic oppression and police brutality.
4-page policy released today outlines presumptively declining to prosecute most lower-level charges, and taking tumultuous circumstances into account for most higher charges. The new DA is an ally who acknowledges that most charges were unnecessary, exaggerated, and context-derived.