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Hundreds of protesters, supporters and families were standing outside the Portland U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters at 4310 SW Macadam Ave. when the roar of a speeding car with a pulled muffler interrupted the Barbra Weber: This is my first festivities. occupation. It’s disorganized but it comes A large Confederate flag billowed from together because it’s a collective the window and several men shouted out consciousness, people just step in “white supremacy!” The car stopped and whenever they can. You come across revved the engine menacingly in front of somebody struggling with something and the crowd. The terror was tangible; cars you help them out. It’s been like that the have increasingly been weaponized in whole way. Now that we’ve been there a conflicts across the country. People acted few days, people are breaking up into quickly to move children and those in committees. These people are in the wheelchairs behind a human blockade. kitchen, these people are on finance, these After a tense stand off, the car sped away. people are on security. Me and the people Despite these isolated acts of terrorism, I’m working with are on child care and the occupation of accessibility to the the Portland ICE camp. It’s been an office was gaining experience, nothing momentum. In a like I’ve ever been decisive response through before. I feel "T h is Is m y firs t occupation. to the Trump like we have the administration’s It's disorganized b u t yet it support of the whole separation of comes together because It's a city, except for some immigrant co lle ctive consciousness, fringe people. Every children and people ju s t step in whenever five minutes someone families, swelling comes by with a they can. Yon come across numbers of donation. Portland activists somebody s tru g g lin g w ith converged at the som ething and yon help them H.H.: Why are you ICE facility with out. It's been lik e th a t the protesting? the intent to w hole way. " remain until it is BARBRA WEBER STREET R O O TS V E N D O R B.W.: We’re talking permanently shut about children locked down. In addition up in cages, away from to the round-the- their family, with no clock protesters, human contact, or hundreds of barely. We shouldn’t people have been do that to prisoners, why the hell are we dropping in for the vigils, speeches and doing that to kids? performances. Supporters have brought food, money, tents, sleeping bags and B ryant King: I’ve got to stand my kitchen supplies. Tribal members, ground against injustice, and to me that’s a musicians, pro bono lawyers and activists damn injustice. What they are doing is have created an impromptu working village unconstitutional. with a welcoming booth, kitchen, medical tent, sanitary services, children’s play area, H.H.: What is the goal o f the occupation? and even a library. Street Roots vendors Barbra Weber, B.W.: To close down all the ICE facilities Bryant King and Bob Dickey have been at in sanctuary cities. If you’re going to call the protest since Tuesday, June 19. Dickey yourself a sanctuary city, you shouldn’t is a veteran occupier who has protested at have ICE. We’re trying to encourage other Standing Rock, Occupy Flint and many sanctuary cities. Once we get this shut other sites. They describe themselves as down, we’re going to Sheridan. best friends and in it for the long haul. On Thursday, June 28, federal officers B.K.: And I want to take my two best from the Department of Homeland Security friends here and go out and sell some cleared the camp from federal property, Street Roots and pitch in. It might not be arresting some members of Occupy. As of much, $5 or $10 between the three of us, press time, it was expected that the but we can contribute. occupation would continue in some form. O H.H.: H ow do you think the occupation is H elen Hill: So what’s it like out there? helping? O n Thursday, Ju n e 21, M exica T iahu i Aztec D ancers (left) performed outside o f the Portland I C E office on Southwest M acadam Avenue. A m o n g the protesters are Street Roots’ vendors Barbra Weber (below left), Bob Dickey (below right) and B ryan t K in g (not pictured). P H O T O S BY H ELEN H ILL B.D.: This is definitely doing what occupations do; they bring awareness to the problem. I’ve been willing to be a martyr for the cause for the past seven years. B.W.: This is affecting what’s going on in the rest of the United States. And this is what’s really sad, and I’ve tied it in for the people at camp. We’re talking about the immigrants who are locked in these facilities, but we’re also talking about people of color and discrimination. I’m homeless, and most of my brothers and sisters on the streets are people of color. We get treated the same way. They take our kids, they give them to people (saying): “Oh, they’ll have a better life with these people.” So when you’re talking about robbing people of basic human dignity, we live that shit every day, and that’s why we’re taking a stand, it’s because we do understand at a very deep level. We might not be locked into cages, but that sidewalk is a damn cage in this city. On Wednesday I talked before at least three or four hundred people. I spoke about how homelessness comes together with this issue of basic human dignity. I spoke about people dying on the streets, how drug addiction and alcoholism are symptomatic; you keep getting hit, that’s what happens. I got up there and I talked specifically about people of color, about sweeps, the basic things we go through; lack of restrooms, laundry, showers. How they take our kids. Because of the stigma of homelessness, our families depart from us. It is nothing that we did, it’s because we’re homeless. They are embarrassed. That’s why homeless people begin to build their own families. We get ripped down the middle.
