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The Mysticism of Ordinary Life Constructing Identity ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLVI • Number 4 A review of the film ‘Paterson’ African American masterpieces on exhibit See Metro, page 9 See Local News, page 3 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • January 25, 2017 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity photo by Z achary S enn /t he p ortland o bServer Tens of thousands of protesters in Portland spill onto the streets and form a protest Friday to send a decisive message that a broad coalition is prepared to resist the newly installed Trump Administration. Discontent with a Trump Administration Z achary S enn t he p ortland o bServer A myriad of community organizations and tens of thousands of individuals took to the streets in downtown Portland for a weekend of protests after President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday in Wash- ington, D.C. From contentious stand-offs between demonstrators and Portland police on the by Resistance night of the inauguration to a peaceful crowd of as many as 100,000 people par- ticipating in Saturday’s Women’s March on Portland, one of the largest protests ever seen in the city, the voices raised sent a decisive message that a broad coalition in Portland is prepared to resist the newly installed Trump Administration. Gregory McKelvey, the 23-year-old leader of Portland’s Resistance, one of the chief organizers of Friday’s demonstra- tions along with a group called Direct Ac- tion Alliance dubbed the action an event to “Rise Up and Resist Fascism,” according to the event’s Facebook page. He told the Portland Observer another primary objec- tive was to build community ties and meet with people who share common political values. The first protest started to form down- town in the early afternoon just after Trump took the oath of office in a ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Although the at- mosphere by protesters was overall festive as the crowd grew to an estimated 10,000 people, clashes with law enforcement darkened the evening. On Monday, official complaints by pro- testers of excessive force by police were made to the Independent Police Review Division. New Portland Mayor Ted Wheel- er said he would also review the reports. Wheeler said he supported demonstra- tors’ right to assembly and their right to free expression, but wanted to limit acts of vandalism and disruptions to transit that marred similar protests in Portland after Trump was elected in November. But representatives of the Direct Action Alliance on Monday called for the firing of c ontinued on p age 4
