Tagged: Portland

• PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE

  March 1, 2022 | JAMES CROXTON | ABNER HÄUGE

  On the evening of Feb. 19, a regularly-scheduled Black Lives Matter march was supposed to start out near Normandale Park in North-East Portland. Instead, someone came out of a building, approached a group of women volunteering with the march and shot them. One woman, June Knightly, age 60, who went by “T. Rex,” was killed.… Continue reading PORTLAND MASS SHOOTING SHOWS HOW FAR-RIGHT FOMENTS MURDER & POLICE TURN A BLIND EYE

• PDX PROUD BOYS SURROUND, INTIMIDATE PRESS OUTSIDE OF EUGENE TPUSA EVENT

  October 29, 2021 | JAMES CROXTON

  On Oct. 27, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA’s long-planned stop in Eugene for his college campus Critical Racism Tour took place at the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell. With Proud Boys—seeming to act like security—present, Kirk’s 100-plus-minute speaking and Q&A event happened after several locations canceled their hosting. Previous locations had cited safety… Continue reading PDX PROUD BOYS SURROUND, INTIMIDATE PRESS OUTSIDE OF EUGENE TPUSA EVENT

• EYEWITNESSES & VICTIM DESCRIBE SHOOTING & PROUD BOY VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND

  August 27, 2021 | ABNER HÄUGE | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  All indications were that antifascists already won before the day even started. Richard, a beloved Portland local who shows up to nearly every damn protest, sat down next to me. I asked him how he’s been and he sat down on the bench next to me and started explaining, out of the blue, something I… Continue reading EYEWITNESSES & VICTIM DESCRIBE SHOOTING & PROUD BOY VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND

• PORTLAND FASCISTS TERRORIZE DOWNTOWN UNDER GUISE OF ‘PROTECTING’ COVID-SPREADING PREACHER

  August 13, 2021 | CHIP NOOO

  The weather was pristine on Sunday as I walked down Jefferson Street towards Tom McCall Water Front Park in downtown Portland. The sun was out and it couldn’t have been more than 75 degrees. Even though it was only 6 o’clock, I could already hear the familiar sound of gospel music drifting through the city.… Continue reading PORTLAND FASCISTS TERRORIZE DOWNTOWN UNDER GUISE OF ‘PROTECTING’ COVID-SPREADING PREACHER

• GROUNDHOG DAY IN PORTLAND: PEACE POLICE, LEAFBLOWERS, BLACK UNITY AND A WHOLE LOT OF STANDING AROUND

  March 15, 2021 |

  GRIFFIN MALONE A busy day in Portland was seemingly going to end in broken windows, graffiti, and a tear gas fight with the feds. A confusing night unfolded with Black Unity showing up, Peace Police, and whole lot of infighting. The one year anniversary of the police Killing Breonna Taylor brought calls to action and… Continue reading GROUNDHOG DAY IN PORTLAND: PEACE POLICE, LEAFBLOWERS, BLACK UNITY AND A WHOLE LOT OF STANDING AROUND

• AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND

  August 25, 2020 | JAMES O’RYAN

  An unusual scene began during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. Among the activists manning the western barricade, word rapidly spread that Proud Boys or some other form of alt-right militia was approaching the edge of the action in a limousine with a camera crew. Protesters and press alike couldn’t… Continue reading AUGUST 15: WARWOLVES OF PORTLAND

• PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY

  August 11, 2020 | JAMES O’RYAN

  Kenton Park is a rolling, twelve acre, green-space in this tightly-packed city. People from the neighborhood had begun quietly assembling on Sunday, August 9 2020, in socially-distanced and masked groups at the north end of the park since around 6 PM. Unlike the visually packed spaces in the city center so famous from national and… Continue reading PORTLAND, AUGUST 9TH–PROTESTERS COMPLY WITH DISPERSAL ORDER, POLICE ASSAULT THEM ANYWAY

• PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER

  August 8, 2020 | TJ PARTRIDGE

  On the heels of a night wherein the Portland Police Bureau beat, flashbanged, and gassed a crowd through the streets of outer Southeast Portland, the teenage-led activist group Youth Liberation Front posted a follow up call to action in the East Portland neighborhood. The announcement, of course, was not unnoticed by the Portland Police Bureau,… Continue reading PORTLAND POLICE PROMISE VIOLENCE, DELIVER

• “IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER

  July 25, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  ‘TRANS RIGHTS’ is, in my opinion, a brilliant alias. That’s what my interviewee chose to call herself for this article. Before I even asked a question, there were a few things TRANS RIGHTS wanted to make clear: She’s white. She’s trans. She lives in Portland. Portland is stolen Chinook land. Oregon was founded as a… Continue reading “IT CONSUMES YOUR LIFE”. INTERVIEW WITH A PORTLAND PROTESTER

• INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE

  July 23, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  At one point during our conversation, Rosa cleared her throat. “Excuse me,” she said. “It’s the teargas, not COVID.” Rosa is a lead organizer with The Witches PDX. She spoke to LCRW about the group’s mutual aid work, the brutality of the state and federal law enforcement’s response to the now over 50 days of… Continue reading INTERVIEW: ROSA FROM THE WITCHES PDX ON POLICE BRUTALITY, HEXING FASCISTS AND MORE

• Antifascists Allege They Were Chased by Proud Boys with a Knife after Q-anon Rally

  April 29, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  “Q anon is currently at the bike bridge off of failing and Missouri and is currently doing a banner drop,” the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front (PNWYLF) tweeted Wednesday at 1:45PM. “One of the fash displaying the Qanon banners from the bridge was wearing a Proudboy [sic] hat and drove a white Kia,” they added.… Continue reading Antifascists Allege They Were Chased by Proud Boys with a Knife after Q-anon Rally

• WASHINGTON QANON CANDIDATE REPORTS PORTLAND MUTUAL AID ORGANIZATION TO FBI FOR GIVING AWAY FLOUR

  April 26, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  “Hey @TheJusticeDept, my grocery store has been out of flour for a month…are people hoarding it?? Why are antifa/communist groups giving away 3k pounds of it suddenly? @FBI @FBIPortland,” Amber Krabach wrote on Twitter Sunday. Krabach was quote-tweeting Symbiosis PDX, a Portland-based mutual aid organization. Instead of just seeking donations and doing charity work, mutual… Continue reading WASHINGTON QANON CANDIDATE REPORTS PORTLAND MUTUAL AID ORGANIZATION TO FBI FOR GIVING AWAY FLOUR

• KLAN LEADER ANNOUNCES MULTNOMAH COURTHOUSE RALLY ON FEBRUARY 8TH

  January 30, 2020 | ABNER HÄUGE

  There’s a Klansman looking to rally in Portland on February 8th. Afterwards, he’ll burns a cross up the way in Vancouver, Washington. Steven Howard announced on Facebook January 9th he plans to rally in front of the Multnomah County Courthouse. Howard told Sergio Olmos of Underscore.news that the Klan rally will be followed by a… Continue reading KLAN LEADER ANNOUNCES MULTNOMAH COURTHOUSE RALLY ON FEBRUARY 8TH

• WHEN A PORTLAND TRANS WOMAN WAS ATTACKED, A PATRIOT PRAYER ASSOCIATE APPARENTLY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY AND ANOTHER HARASSED HER GOFUNDME

  February 16, 2019 | ABNER HÄUGE

  “A beloved member of our community was violently attacked from behind with a baseball bat possibly by multiple individuals in the Buckman neighborhood near S.E. Morrison,” the GoFundMe page for “Trauma recovery fund for our girl” reads. The attack occurred sometime around 1AM on Sunday the 10th. The survivor, Sophia, said she was ambushed. “I… Continue reading WHEN A PORTLAND TRANS WOMAN WAS ATTACKED, A PATRIOT PRAYER ASSOCIATE APPARENTLY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY AND ANOTHER HARASSED HER GOFUNDME