Un-Occupy Portland counters Occupy protestors at downtown rally, march
Published: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 5:29 PM Updated: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 7:20 PM
Armed with snarky signs and at least one false mustache, a group of about 10 anti-Occupy Portland protestors, who called themselves Un-Occupy Portland, stood near Ankeny Plaza to deliver a message to the Occupy movement: "We're seriously annoyed, and we want you to stop."
As members of Occupy Portland gathered for a rally on the plaza, the Un-Occupy protestors held signs with sayings such as "We are the 98.999%. We are seriously annoyed with the 0.001%," "I'm bored and easily influenced," and "Un-Occupy Portland: The 98.999% for Portland Police, Taxpayers and the City's Budget."
As the rally went on below them, the anti-protestors handed out flyers and discussed their complaints with the Occupy movement, citing a lack of direction, tense relations with police, lofty law enforcement expenditures, traffic congestion, vandalization and crime as reasons the protestors should end their occupation.
"No one will disagree with the serious problem of wealth inequality in this country. But we don’t feel that — 'Let’s totally, like, stop corporate greed, dude!' is a realistic or attainable goal worthy of the protests’ consequences," reads a piece of the group's mission statement.
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