I’ll be otg soon in Salem for the Rally Against Hate Groups and for Police Accountability. Check this thread for live updates 🧵
Crowd is gathered near the Oregon State Capitol building as they cheer on the speaker in agreement as he talks about his anger over the police murdering Black people. Right wingers sporadically drive by yelling slurs
It’s been brought to my attention that some right wingers jumped some of my friends, including a Black person and a woman. It was a few blocks away from where the group is gathered they were driving a blue pickup truck with stickers all over the back. They’re relatively ok
But really shaken up. Please stay vigilant and in groups.
Local activist Oni Marchbanks
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Racism is not patriotism
Local activist who goes by Alex. Check out Latinos unidos siempre on Facebook Twitter Instagram for upcoming events 1/4
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Alex 3/3 not 4 jk
Group is now marching. Lifted trucks with American flags, don’t tread on me flags and the likes continue to aggressively drive by and yell
Andddd an aggressive van almost just ran over multiple people and they did not care one bit. Everyone is ok.
Brief moment of silence as some activities take a knee. During the moment of silence a chud started yelling “FUCK ANTIFA!”
Interesting sight 👀
Moments after harassing activists this person got pulled over and was met with quite a few cops.
at the new police station where folks are writing messages on the ground with chalk for the police
Letters are being posted on the wall at the new station
Letters posted on the new police stations windows
“Waste of space”
Big if true
Now hiring people who ignore racism
Your hero complex will never be fulfilled
That would be bad.
I’m hearing from numerous sources that this is likely a permitted march. Take that as you will. We are now marching again
And just so you get an idea of how RIDICULOUSLY excessive this new station is... it looks like a boogie art museum. Like you can even take a cringey Disneyland-letter-esque pic on it...
On this night there was new graffiti popping up all over town during the late hours. I went on a little scavenger hunt because I wanted to see and document what I could before it got cleaned up. We were driving and saw “fuck thxgiving” & “land back” tagged all over Hawthorne so
We decided to explore on foot. Not that I need to explain myself, but because it was late af and there are literal nazis who want me dead I didn’t go alone, I brought someone with me who was legally armed. This is important later. Anyways, right as we park we hear the sound of
Down in Vancouver for a Justice and Accountability for Keven Peterson Jr. march. There were about 15 armed RW’ers when we left the park. They stopped being confrontational when they saw how many armed leftists there were.
Spoke to soon
They’re threatening to call the cops.... because people... have guns... I’m gonna pee 🤣
Anywhere from 2-500 protestors in bloc are currently climbing over and in some cases under different fences and gates to get inside of the zoo. A wave of nostalgia washes over me as i hear chants of “our fence!”
I’m hearing that the zoo DA will need to be extremely strategic because of the way the property is set up and how the animals are categorized. Since we’ll be split into groups please add any updates and news to this thread so we don’t miss any information. Hold while we have a
They wouldn’t let people protest, kept blocking the march, then sent in the National Guard with hundreds of cops. Who is escalating this? Because it’s not the protesters.
Last night governor Kate Brown deployed the National Guard as protesters attempted to march. Once again in Portland, antifascist activists kept getting blocked for trying to practice their constitutional rights. Police and NG moved in formation together and injured many people
Police pushed us down to the ground a lot, made an arrest, and pushed press back a block away from what was happening. There were at least 10 arrests but this one was the only one I was able to *not see*