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Sergio Olmos

5 Nov, 65 tweets, 17 min read

Portland protest day after the election

About 200 people are in downtown Portland for a planned protest, regardless of the winner, after the election.

The social media flyer promoted becoming “ungovernable”
Most of the protestors are dressed in black bloc.

People are mingling in the park, there’s musics and aid stations.

Most people are in semi circles, talking

Protestors are marching south now, chanting “ACAB”

About 300 protestors moving through downtown

“No cops, no prisons, total abolition”

“Fuck Ted Wheeler”

The protest moves toward justice center

Protesters pass by George Floyd mural

Some protesters are chanting “press not welcome”

Oregon state police warn protestors not to “engage in control behavior”, use of force and tear gas warning given

This protest runs into another group of protesters; a Black Lives Matter march that started at revolution hall. The two groups are now marching together. Hundreds of protestors moving along the waterfront

“What does look look like? revolution”

Correction, the rev hall group did not join this march.

On the waterfront

Speaker in this march says the other march, the Rev Hall group, doesn’t want to march with them

Speaker says the rev hall crowd, Black Lives Matter marches without police confrontation, doesn’t want to march with this crowd, a black block group that does confront police, because they break windows. speaker asks the crowd to abstain from that tonight and join together

A speaker at the “count every vote” booth encourages everyone to come together.

Some do, some walk across the street and regroup to figure out what to do next.

For months protests here have been a coalition of Black Lives Matter supporters, anti-fascists, and anarchists. it’s a ven diagram and some are all three.

But some aren’t, and there’s been disagreement about how to protest: Martin Luther King or Malcolm X

Some of the protesters, broadly classified as anarchists, don’t want leaders on microphones telling them what to do.

This group isn’t interested in “count each vote”, because they think both candidates are different iterations of an unacceptable system

The protest groups have split up, some stayed at the waterfront with the “count each vote” booth

This group of protestors, most of them in black bloc, are walking back into downtown. Some are breaking windows along the way