Thread by @jwcroxton

Heading to North Park Blocks in #Portland to check out this event for @villageportland that started around 2 p.m.
#PortlandProtest

Just arrived.
Rode past a ton of PPB in several cruisers and im walking towards the rally.

The crowd is currently listening to Indigenous chants.

I can't help but tear up a little.

We have an ASL interpreter!!!

Pardon my f'd up nails but I picked up this little pamphlet on BDS

We've got someone on the stage rapping to what's, honestly, a pretty killer backing track.

Kenneth from the National Lawyers Guild is doing a quick know-your-rights training

A man, refusing to wear a mask, is threatening to cough on people.

Some VERY tall security men have arrived to break it up.

It appears he's not leaving but everyone has moved away from "his COVID ass," as I just heard.

Grabbed a few pamphlets from @Symbiosis_PDX

The crowd of a couple hundred is listening to a speech by a woman who is a victim human trafficking.

"It was mutual aid that saved me, not the officers," she said

Now a round of applause of Multnomah County who passed a ballot measure to mandate preschool for all.

Several cars and trucks have loudly sped by in the last few minutes on two sides of the event.

I finally found my crew of @PDocumentarians and [who also happens to be fluent in ASL!] @Piggyboo_Playa

The march is getting organized

@Piggyboo_Playa

400-600 people here

Several cruisers with lights and sirens went by ahead

Theyre circling

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#DJLRAD is out

Well, I got my respirator out

We're merging with another protest at the waterfront

Actually going past it

Armed and banjo'd (2020)
Medium: photography

This protest lost a looooot of folks to the other one we passed

Were posted in front of a Count Every Vote event near the waterfront. Vibes are chill.

The protest in the street is joining the group at the waterfront Count Every Vote rally.

There's some arguing going on across the street

The man who drove his truck and brought speakers is pissed that nobody told him the end location

A group has split off — albeit a MAX train split them up — and are headed somewhere else.

@TheRealCoryElia has joined the crew finally

Windows and a door smashed at Lovely Rita

This has just been declared an unlawful assemnly

A vna just had windows smashed out

Being told to disperse to the west

Press and legal observers ordered to the sidewalk

Some sort of arrest was made it appears

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