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Indymedia Events: Usually held on 3rd Saturday of the month - (email PIMC to verify) Next Meeting: 6:00 PM Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark st. General Meeting Report Your Local News community building | police / legal 12-Jun-2020 11:52 PORTLAND INFORMATION: Arbitration Bill Will Not Keep Fired Cops Fired From the open publishing newswire: To the members of the Portland Committee for Community Engaged Policing, the media, and others in Portland: Please visit http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/arbitration_bill0620.html to download this fact sheet with images and full layout. We urge PCCEP to examine this bill at its emergency meeting tonight as momentum is building for it to be discussed and/or passed in Salem quickly. http://www.portlandcopwatch.org/arbitration_facts0620.pdf read moreupdated 6.12.20 05-Jun-2020 23:00 The Shortwave Report 06/05/20 Listen Globally! From the open publishing newswire: A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan. This week’s show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan. http://www.outfarpress.com/swr200605.mp3 read moreactions & protests | police / legal 05-Jun-2020 22:50 Riot Riot Riot From the open publishing newswire: This is what is going down on the streets of Portland get into the streets! I have been in the streets of Portland every day since this started and I have been an activist in this city for a while and have never seen anything like this. The cops are now using LRAD sound cannons who knows what tonight’s activities will bring get into the streets to find out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FviPybYaQvE read moreactions & protests | alternative media 04-Jun-2020 00:20 What Happened to Indymedia? From the open publishing newswire: What happened to indymedia. it seems like everything radical has gone dormant. I remember when it started twenty years ago there was a lot of energy going into it but in like a generation the whole thing has shifted. everything has shifted. it doesn’t seem like there is much of anything going on anymore. there is lots happening online but it doesn’t accomplish anything particularly radical. almost all of the online organizing is filtered through corporate social media sites. i’m just a ranty old bitch but i am trying to understand why the radical movements of the recent 20 years mostly just whithered up and disappeared and it seems like no one even noticed it happened. read morelabor 03-Jun-2020 22:31 Anyone know what is happening in Portland for Mayday? From the open publishing newswire: Just the question..... I know there are efforts in Portland and the United States to have a General Strike, but usually there is a coalition that is organizing things in Portland anyone know if there is one this year and what they are doing? read morepolice / legal 03-Jun-2020 22:26 Portland Copwatch has an incident report line From the open publishing newswire: We want to invite people who witness or experience first hand any enforcement of the Governor’s stay-at-home order, whether it’s a warning or a citation, to let us know about it. Ideally you should have evidence of the encounter. The number for the incident report line is 503-321-5120. read morepolice / legal 03-Jun-2020 22:22 Copwatch: COMMENTS ON VEHICLE TOW, ALCOHOL USE AND OTHER DIRECTIVES FEBRUARY 2020 From the open publishing newswire: Below are our comments on the six Directives posted for February 2020 In relaying the first four items to our constituents, we noted that they all seem to relate to questionable behavior which put officers in front of the Police Review Board or in the media in the last...