Boots on the ground, on the doors for endorsed candidate and working class fighter
@ChaichiforOR
(State Rep. HD 35)
Next? DSA Labor for Farrah!
Sunday, May 05 1:00 PM
Canvass at 1:00pm at Barsotti Park, 16610 SW Blanton St. Beaverton
RSVP:
PLEASE do not criticize Biden right now. Give him a year to get things going post Trump. After that point PLEASE do not criticize him either, you will be helping GOP in the mid terms. Ok now after this point... PLEASE do not criticize him it will help GOP presidential candidate.
John McCain was no hero, he was not a “decent man” nor is his death any sort of loss for this country. He was complicit in war crimes & showed no remorse, referring to Vietnamese by racial slurs. He beat the drums of war louder than just about anyone, and he will not be missed.
Last night, on the 100 day anniversary of the uprising against police violence, several Portland DSA members, including members of the steering committee, were arrested on fabricated felony charges.
A little bit before 2 PM all seemed normal in the crowd. Then without warning the cops shot stun grenades into the anti-fascist crowd and started forcing people to disperse. Yet again the Portland Police are the ones who escalated and created a dangerous situation.
A lot of protesters are saying that last night’s gas attack was different (worse) than the normal CS gas. Quite a few people vomiting and also people having seizures. We don’t even know what type of chemical warfare is being unleashed on our city.
Even more people here tonight at
#OccupyICEPDX
and the camp just keeps growing. And growing. And growing. It now expands to all sides of the building and isn't showing any signs of slowing down ✊
#fuckICE
Only one garage exit for the ICE agents at this facility. People at the
@OccupyICEPDX
assemble in front whenever they try to leave. Agents stuck here and can’t go home to see their families 🤔
Vigil at 8:30 PM. Occupation will be going around the clock.
Mutual aid, especially feeding the coummunity, is a key part of resistance. This is also why we’ve seen cops target things like grills, snack vans, and more. They don’t want to see people being taken care of, they want to see them beaten on the ground. Solidarity from Portland ✊
The uprising in Bolivia is going to be a long struggle. Looking after each other is vital in sustaining the movement. Here at the roadblock in Yapacaní (Santa Cruz), the community has come together to provide meals (olla común) for those on the front line against the coup regime.
Portland DSA calls for the immediate impeachment and removal of Trump from office, the expulsion of all members of Congress who aided this coup attempt, and the beginning of a nationwide commitment to antifascist praxis by socialists of all tendencies.
Taxing the rich to fund Universal Preschool is just the beginning. We’re so proud to have WON this campaign in Multnomah County to create free preschool for all, funded by an income tax on the wealthy. Our full statement:
Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned for use in war by the UN. Yet, police all over this country deploy this chemical weapon whenever they feel like it. Longer term effects of tear gas are still being studied, but it’s likely Portland will be a good source for case studies.
A Portland charter school closed its playground today due to concerns of tear gas residue (!) from the response to a weekend protest at the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building next door
#LiveOnK2
The Nordic Model isn't socialism, and it won't save us. Norway's welfare state depends on unsustainable oil drilling that hastens global climate ruin, and Sweden's on arms sales to brutal regimes like Saudi Arabia. Only working class power can end suffering rather than export it.
POPMOB rally at city hall. Portland says no to fascism today and every other day. Wherever you go, whatever you do, we are many, you are few! ✊🌹
#DefendPDX
Here at Portland DSA:
- Sex workers are comrades
- Cops are not workers
- TERFs are not welcome
- Zionism is colonialism
- Our socialism is not compatible with capitalism
Oregonians just voted in a Democratic supermajority. So naturally, what's first on their agenda? Letting fossil fuel lobbyists write our climate legislation 🙄
We need REAL action on climate change—not useless neoliberal "solutions" like cap-and-trade.
We stand with
@IlhanMN
against the racist attacks she is facing for being critical of a country’s government. Their smears will not make anyone back down in the fight against brutal apartheid. We will win.
#FreePalestine
✊✊✊
They said it wasn’t “possible” to tweet
BERNIE SANDERS
NO SURRENDER
FOUR DAY WEEK
THREE DAY BENDER
on the official chapter account. But look at us now.
The problem isn’t that the police didnt intervene yesterday, the problem is the Parkrose area is normally a heavily policed place. The police often use “gang activity” as a pretext for their harassment of and violence against East Portland residents. 1/2
Thank the socialists for Labor Day. The Haymarket *Riot* scared the ruling class so much that they had to create a second day for workers to distract from the militancy of May Day.
This comes as the real violent forces of repression, the federally-deputized Oregon State Police and the Portland Police Bureau, continue to beat, brutalize, and gas peaceful protesters.
At night the Portland Police beat and gas people, and by day they show up to break into homes and evict people. Under the direction of Police Commissioner
@tedwheeler
NE 25th and Alberta right now.
#DefundThePolice
#DefundPPB
These violent agents of the state terrorize Portland neighborhoods with impunity, where babies sleep and families are forced to wear respirators in their own homes, at the behest of politicians that are supposed to be on "our side”.
“Capt. Mark Kruger made $265,225 last fiscal year, the highest-paid employee in the Portland Police Bureau.”
Kruger may be best known as a Nazi who collects Nazi memorabilia (linked in below story). These are the people we are paying hundreds of thousands to brutalize the city.
This is part of a long pattern of political repression from the state. As socialists, we recognize that capitalism and racism are intertwined, and the police are the enforcers of these oppressive systems.
HAPPENING NOW: Portland DSA along with the Portland chapter of
@jvplive
, Mothers for a Ceasefire, and Zaytuna PDX are at the Intel campus in Hillsboro to protest Intel’s newly announced $25 billion chip factory investment in Israel. No tech for genocide!
2: No Tech For Genocide 🚫
Protest Intel's plan for a new $25 billion chip factory in Israel
Rally Monday Jan 8th @ 8:30 am
Intel campus in Hillsboro 🪧
Register Here 👇👇👇
Calling in from the Tigard Fred Meyer location, Miles Eshaia with UFCW Local 555 says they've been watching cars turn around once they've seen the picketers outside the store.
Workers are set up at locations across greater Portland
#LiveOnK2
This ‘plan’ is very emblematic of what Warren’s all about. The problem is that people are living paycheck to paycheck and can’t make rent because they aren’t paid enough + rent is too high.
Her “solution”: faster banking, more efficient capitalism.
This is the sort of weekend that terrifies people living paycheck-to-paycheck:
🏠 Rent is due Sunday 9/1
💰 Friday’s deposited paycheck may not clear for days because of the holiday weekend
Overdraft fees & payday lenders shouldn't be the solution. I’ve got a bill for that.
We condemn this statement from Joe Biden in which he criminalizes a political ideology that is based on cooperation and mutual care. Anarchists are valued members of our big tent organization. This is a dangerous statement that threatens everyone’s political speech.
Full
@JoeBiden
response calling for "arsonists and anarchists" to be prosecuted for the violence/destruction occurring at some protests. Says Trump is "stoking division and chaos" because "his campaign is failing and he is looking for a political lifeline."
"Nabisco bakers have halted rail delivery of ingredients. They stood on the railroad tracks to stop a Pacific Union supply train headed for the facility. The train engineer—a union member—reversed course."
@BCTGM
👏👏👏
The
@PortlandPolice
’s practice of posting all arrested (not charged) protesters photos and information online solely exists to intimidate and threaten people. It serves no public good. If it continues it could result in someone’s death.
On Aug. 7, Black activist Ragina Gray was tackled by Portland police at a protest. That same day, Andy Ngo shared Gray’s name and mug shot on Twitter.
Twelve nights later, a man showed up on the doorstep of Gray’s mother’s home.
But when the gang, the Proud Boys, shares their ideology, the police don’t view it as a threat. And that’s because policing is not about community safety, but about enforcing white supremacy and capitalism. The Proud Boys are not threat to that.
.
@PortlandPolice
are not reformable. We need to defund this white supremacist gang and fund programs that help our community. We do not need these racist armed goons patrolling Portland, it makes the city unsafe, not safe.
A good rule of thumb for public officials is if you ever find yourself thinking concentration camps might solve a problem
a) you are the problem
b) resign
If you are waiting for just ONE protest when the cops use flash bangs, etc. to disperse the fascists instead of the anti-fascists you will die waiting. They don’t fire on their own, they protect them.
Make no mistake, what happened in Bolivia is a coup. Whether socialism comes to power via elections or through revolution against the oppressors, capitalists & fascists will respond violently. They have no regard for democracy, and will always resort to violence to get their way.
Incredibly successful rally on Saturday as part of the international day of action for Palestine with the guiding demands of
#HandsOffRafah
and
#CeasefireNow
Our co-chair Jesse addressed the assembled crowd to implore us all to continue to get organized to achieve these demands.…
This will be Portland’s 4th Police Chief in 4 years (5 if you count a brief interim one in 2016). The problem is not who is charge of the Portland Police Bureau, the problem is the Portland Police Bureau.
#DisbandPPB
Portland Police Bureau Jami Resch is resigning.
"What PPB has not done, publicly, is not stand up and say we will be the start of that change. This change starts with trust. I have asked Chuck Lovell as the chief of the PPB."
Portland DSA stands in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance to occupation and ethnic cleansing. We call for an end to the occupation and an end to US military, technological, and diplomatic support for the Israeli apartheid regime. 1/4
There were many who showed up today to stand against fascism but the size of these crowds should be in the tens of thousands. It is shameful that the
@portlandmercury
and local elected officials were actively telling people not to go.
This is the one secret we were specifically asked not to share, and now it's just out here for all of twitter to see. Great. Gonna have to spend the rest of the day in damage control mode.
things are going strong at
@OccupyICEPDX
. They need more people to show up and hold down the fort during the day. Come to 4310 SW Macadam Ave. Even for just an hour if you can. Help stop the fascists at ICE from carrying out their mission!
#OccupyICE
#OccupyICEPDX
Evictions continuing to happen despite a pandemic and now a wildfire emergency situation. Cops came armed with an AR-15 even... Capitalism is an absolutely heinous system with no regard for human life.
Our chapter co-chair,
@oliviakatbi
, has been suspended by
@Twitter
after being the target of an ongoing harassment campaign by white supremacists and escalated in recent days by far right Zionists.
@TwitterSupport
allows this to happen while censoring those who fight for justice.
After being doxxed & smeared by the far right this past week
@twitter
has suspended
@oliviakatbi
and provided no reason or even notification to her. It is likely due to a mass report campaign by these far right actors intent on targeting left wing women of color
@TwitterSupport
Trump’s assassination of an Iranian military general was an illegal act of war on Iran. We have little faith in Congress doing anything about this, so everyone in the US needs to be prepared to stand up and get in the streets to prevent a war against Iran.
Nabisco Bakers on STRIKE!
Join us at a solidarity rally & picket ✊
Saturday, 8/14
10 AM - Noon
100 NE Columbia
Questions: portlanddsalabor
@gmail
.com
Details:
Educators, bus drivers, & custodians are fighting to protect students & families. When classrooms have clean air & surfaces, when buses have safe distancing, thank a union. PAT,
@SEIULocal503
, &
@ATU757pdx
are bargaining for the public good