Reply #13: Images/Stories/Activism!

[Melinda]

I was born in the City of Roses and have the feet to prove it. A few Portaland images from Indy media:





Not much yet on Portland Indy Media site but check out the commentary -- looks like the cops were heavy handed again and used pepper spray. Maybe not as bad as Feb, but still. From their main page:

On August 22, 2002, pResident select George Bush visited Portland, Oregon. Over 3000 people of all ages hit the streets in a beautiful, non-permitted expression of resistance. The police reacted with violence and rioted against the people, attacking people with billy clubs and pepperspray. Among the victims was an infant less than a year old. The city is currently defending itself from a lawsuit for the repression it incurred. The event lit a fire under the collective ass of the Portland activist scene, and for months afterwards the spirit of resistance remained high. The readership of portland indymedia increased immensely and kept growing. Bush did this city a favor by visiting that day, and he's about to do it again.

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