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Planning Underway for Occupy Portland

A strong show of support in other cities indicates that Occupy Portland is part of a growing national movement of people who no longer feel that their government works in their best interest.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Occupy Portland begins Thursday at noon. Organizers of the event say they will gather in solidarity with the ongoing protest in New York City, Occupy Wall Street, and the growing number of cities whose people will no longer sit back watching corporate and special interests run their government.

City and police officials from Portland say they are currently in dialogue with the group. They say their goal is to allow free speech and ensure public safety.

America`s Modern Barbarism

Who are these people who give tea a bad name and show up at presidential debates only to behave as if they are enjoying a bear baiting exhibition?

(LONDON Redress) - Racism and bigotry is edging its way from the periphery to the mainstream in US politics, capturing one of the two main parties, taking control of the House of Representatives and fashioning a slate of Republican presidential hopefuls in its image.

”So, Dr Jekyll, meet Mr Hyde. Who will it be? If you think you really share the character of Dr Jekyll, then you better assert yourself. Get active, get political, speak out, take a progressive stand. Otherwise, modern barbarism will have its way.” (Lawrence Davidson)

Raw Story Reports: `Occupy Wall Street` Movement Arrives in Seattle

“This is a grassroots satellite protest to bring awareness to the struggle on the streets of New York and to empower the 99% in this country,” - Occupy Seattle Website.

(SEATTLE Raw Story) - Protesters in Seattle gathered at Westlake Park on Saturday morning to protest against corporations influence on the government. More than 100 people participated in “Occupy Seattle,” according to the event’s organizers.

“It’s amazing the diversity and the singular voice that we have,” said one protester.

Sears? Yeah that`s right. Sears!

Rebuilding Together and Sears' Heroes at Home program assists veteran with critical needs.

(CLEVELAND) - Rebuilding Together is working with Sears on a Heroes at Home project, serving an Iraq War veteran.

Heroes at Home projects serve the nation's military members and families by addressing their critical housing needs.

Solidarity on the Brooklyn Bridge

“They’re very, very brave to stand there when those police are taking them away. They’re doing it for all of us.” -
Oregon dad who watched NY 'white shirt' cops arrest a teen girl

(ST. HELENS, Ore.) - I’m sitting in my farmhouse home in Warren, Oregon, and watching live feed of the Occupy Wall Street protesters facing off against police on the Brooklyn Bridge.

They’re crammed onto the bridge shoulder to shoulder, calling out slogans and standing peacefully, and the police are arresting them…one by one.

Keith Olbermann and Amy Goodman Call out Wall Street Protests Media Blackout

EDITORS NOTE: Keith Olbermann and Amy Goodman are covering it. Good! Now, lets read it in the NYTimes and listen to it on FOX News and other fair & balanced, and objective Media!

(NEW YORK) - It’s A War Going On! It’s A Struggle. Keith Olbermann: pointed out Wednesday night on Countdown that the major newspapers had been ignoring the five-day-long “Occupy Wall Street” protests, but would have scrambled to cover a similar-sized tea party protest.

PTSD/TBI and General/Doctor McCaffrey

Wrong, wrong, and wrong again as usual.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I can't say that I am amused by the continuing blather erupted by Dr./Gen. Barry McCaffrey about PTSD and also drugs when he was interviewed by Mike Francis of the Oregonian 28 Sept. 2011.

He proved when he was drug czar in the White House a few years ago that he didn't know anything factual about marijuana and drug abuse and he repeated showing his ignorance in this article.

Two War Photographers Available for Talks and Visual Demonstrations

One British, one American, and their experience covering wars in six countries.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Palestine, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Kuwait. You can see the images of people and places, combat and strife, humanitarian efforts and survival techniques.

People are curious about what it looks like and feels like to be in a war zone shooting photographs and conducting interviews, trying to stay safe while absorbing local culture and meeting people whose lives are impacted by the violence of war and the tragedy of loss.

The Numbers are Growing: OCCUPY WALL STREET

In several videos, these white shirts are seen pushing and shoving protesters at random as they walk along the streets lined by participants and observers.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - What started out 10 days ago as a handful of protesters determined to raise awareness of the injustices and harms caused by the morally bankrupt minions of Wall Street has grown into thousands of angered, yet entirely peaceful, supporters of what can now be called a genuine occupation.

Blocked from directly confronting the offices of the world's largest accumulation of politically protected criminals, the protesters have swarmed a local park and the surrounding streets.

From Wall Street to D.C. and THE Change to Believe In and Work For

Perhaps those Police believe as Mitt Romney does that “corporations are people” while ignoring the pain of we the people who are fed up with the status quo and negation of our civil liberties.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On Sept. 17th hundreds of protestors took it to the streets at Bowling Green Park in Manhattan, home of the charging bull in New York’s Financial District, to “take the bull by the horns.”