Thousands show up for Occupy Portland


Thousands showed up to march, listen and chant Thursday for Occupy Portland, the local branch of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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Thousands showed up to march, listen and chant Thursday for Occupy Portland, the local branch of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

They were young and old, with dogs and without, riding scooters, on bikes, but mostly walking slowly from Tom McCall Waterfront Park through downtown and finally to Lownsdale and Chapman squares across from the Federal Courthouse. Hundreds of people still milled there into the night as others set up a handful of tents to camp overnight with the city’s approval. 

But they had to be out of the parks by 9 a.m. to make way for setting up the Portland Marathon scheduled this Sunday. It’s not clear where the demonstrators will go from there. 

The occupation put Portland on the map with dozens of cities across the country that have plugged into a pervasive dissatisfaction with the nation’s bleak economic future and partisan political breakdown. The protests — from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles — started on Wall Street three weeks ago targeting what demonstrators say is corporate rapaciousness and the growing U.S. underclass.

Read more at OregonLive.com.

Update: Occupy Portland protesters say they plan to stay in Chapman Square indefinitely.

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