Homeless - United Poor People - action starting

Seems like Sisters of the Road did a camp out for the Rose Parade a few years ago when Vera Katz was Mayor. They did a lot of coordination with City Hall to make sure everything was legal and smooth things over with the cops. The Police made a few efforts to roust them out any way with false acusations but Vera Katz backed their play.

KGW has given the homeless a little play in the past and the Mercury is having a event close by so I was wondering if this is a Matt Davis, Israel Bayer and Patrick Nolan production or is this real homeless people?

What is your political clout?

Has city hall responded in a positive manner to this tactic in the past?

Why are these ordinances in place?

Who are the political powers keeping the ordinance on the city books?

What real results will this action achieve?

What are the personal benefits to people who get involved?

Well Old Person, I can't answer your questions, well at least not in a fashion unskewed by personal politics which I assume is what you're asking for (though I doubt if it exists).

What I did find funny though is that you say more people may get involved if those questions are answered and honestly I don't think that is the case. If it were, then no one would ever show up to the huge peace marches in portland because the answers to that list of questions that the organizers would have to give would amount to "peace marches are useless and people just come out to them because real tangible resistance is scary, and very illegal, so rather than saying that they did nothing they come out to peace marches and say that they did all that they could." Whereas with this protest I think that the goal is to put the issue of houselessness into the mind of the public, which it will succede at, though most likely there are very many people that are too impressed with themselves to go camp for a night in solidarity with a group of people that have been given the shortest end of the capitalist stick.

Tonight's Public Access program, "A Growing Concern," will feature guests involved with the United Poor People actions in downtown Portland.
The program will also feature video prepared by Joe Anybody of past arrests, interviews, letter reading and more.

Time will be given to phone calls sometime around the 1/2 point.
call in numbers are: 503-288-4442/503-288-448

Live on Channel 11, 7-8:00
Replay Sunday at 10:00 on channel 23;
Thursday evening at 7:00 on channel 22.

Are you insinuating that Matt, Patrick, or Israel are "staging fake homeless people" along the parade route?

I myself am considering the point of their message, rather than trying to fabricate or spin a position that has no merit nor reasonable fact to sustain the ugly connotation you are inferring here on Indy Media

Lets End Homelessness, Repeal the sit/lie laws, leave poor homeless people alone, quit hassling them, and let the people with no homes camp at night

Who cares who is organizing what ..... the point I would like to instill is some Solidarity and Compassion for one another ....especially those that have nothing

The benefit is we are all part of the community, we all are brother and sisters.
By people of all walks of life and cultures standing together we all benefit by showing love and compassion for each other. Society benefits, the community benefits, and harmony starts to mend the hurts that is continuing waged on people who are poor

People First
Love One Another
Try to Understand
Listen & Learn
Reach Out Your Helping Hand

503-288-4442

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503-288- ?????


Hey Jim, Please repeat both ph.# for Community Access again


Thanks!

"Growing Concern" Phone Call In Phone Numbers

(1)503-288-4442

(2)503-288-4448

What did you think my "connotation" is?


The term production is from my work in theater. Actions can be more effective when planned and coordinated, but sometimes the "People who know better" can get in the way of authentic communication. Nolan and Bayer are recognized trademarks of the non profits they work for and are well aware of that. They give that "special milk toast" feeling to events they organize. I was wondering if this was really from the people or just something brainstormed by people trying to justify their paychecks.

For clearing up my prior blunder with the Portland Community Media call-in phone number. Somehow I missed my error...

Unfortunately the folks from UPP didn't make it for the program this evening, though the video from Joe Anybody went a long way towards getting the issue out there to the viewers.

Thanks a million Joe!

For those with cable who didn't catch the show, I filled in the time with a 7 minute trailer by Courtney Scott of her upcoming documentary about animal abuse and some great phone calls. Hard to watch, but a thought provoking piece about an issue which should be getting much more media attention.

I watched the rose festival on TV but I didn't see any coverage.

What was the experience like?

Did you get to talk to Randy Leonard, maybe build a contact?

I think it can be helpful to have a group post event synopsious.

What did you learn?

Who can you contact for the next event?

What are the positives out of the event?

Good luck Ben and keep up the good work, seems like your group is the only one doing anything.

How much would the permits cost to have daily preparade campouts?

If the UPP was to get funding from say some organization that got $250,000 to systemic change work on issues of poverty why not have a parade every day?

It would get the attention of city hall again and maybe some media too.