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n June 21, a Thursday evening, the
Mexica Tiahui Aztec Dancers, in
their tall, feather headdresses and
colorful embroidered clothing had just
finished performing for a cheering crowd.
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.