#portland university

[another-punk-trans-woman]

As protests start ramping up and violence escalates please remember:

DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES FOR PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.

It can and will cause infection due to bacteria. Flush with water, distilled if possible, and never EVER wear contact lenses to protests where there may be police retaliation.

Please reblog. It may save someone's sight.

[drsonnet]

This afternoon at 5PM UK (12PM ET)

@LemkinInstitute is holding a webinar — “Hidden in Plain View: The Case of Genocide in Gaza" A conversation with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.

@FranceskAlbs

Please join us on Friday, May 3 from 12pm - 1:30pm ET for a conversation with

@FranceskAlbs,

@UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, to talk about her new report, "Anatomy of a Genocide," how genocides can go "unseen," and what this means for genocide prevention. Registration is free and open to the public. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eEEwFFhU

[thearbourist]

Trying to Have Conversations on a University Campus

Universities should be places where the hard discussions can be had. Contentious issues are what Universities are made for… or at least what they were made for. Once you meet the interloper please observe his tactics. He is attempting to provoke a reaction using mid level violence techniques. His goal, while completely discrediting himself, was to discourage debate. His asshollery was deliberate.…

[sayruq]

[coochiequeens]

A patient said something she thought was in confidence and he (the doctor) shared it with staff? And now TRAs are harassing a woman fighting breast cancer? That doctor needs to lose his license for violating patient confidentiality

A woman in Oregon receiving treatment for breast cancer has been dropped by her health clinic of 12 years because she expressed views critical of gender ideology.

Marlene Barbera, who is scheduled for a mastectomy later this month, told Reduxx that she had commented on the presence of a transgender pride flag that was hanging in the waiting room of the Richmond Family Medical Clinic in Portland last year.

Barbera explained that she had written a message to her doctor on MyChart, a website where patients can access their personal health information, describing that she found the inclusion of “political messaging in a healthcare setting” as “offensive.”

She, like a growing number of women, has “gender critical” views, rejecting modern ideologies that conflate biological sex and “gender identity.” Barbera mentioned she had faced rape and death threats from trans activists on X (formerly Twitter), many of whom would have identified with that same flag.

Initially, the Doctor, who she revealed had been her primary care provider for over ten years, said that he would not take the flag down. But while Barbera had initially believed their correspondence to be private, she later discovered that the note to her physician had been viewed and shared by other staff at the clinic.

This June, while attempting to leave a message for her doctor regarding blood test results, the issue continued to escalate. A receptionist at the clinic, who Barbera speculated was transgender, did not permit her to be patched through to her doctor.

“The person insisted I make an appointment. I have breast cancer and consequently an abundance of medical appointments so I did not want to do that. They got frustrated with my ‘non-compliance’ and hung up on me,” Barbera told Reduxx.

“Thinking it might have been in error, I called back. I was told I was ‘not allowed’ and that I must speak to the previous person who had hung up on me. I declined as things hadn’t gone well the first time.”

She then questioned whether the refusal from the first receptionist was due to her previous complaint about the trans pride flag in the lobby.

“I asked, guessing ‘did I hurt the trans person’s feelings?’ And the receptionist took offense to the question, asking ‘what did you say‘ slowly and with great emphasis.”

Weeks later, Barbera received an email from Oregon Health Science University’s (OHSU) Stein Berger, informing her that she had been “discharged from receiving medical care at the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic,” effective immediately, with services to be cut off from all OHSU Family Medicine Clinics, including immediate care clinics, from July 29th. The email did in fact specify that she was being removed “because of ongoing disrespectful and hurtful remarks about our LGBTQ community and staff.”

Barbera told Reduxx that the incident had sent her “anxiety through the roof” and that she was struggling with her mental health as a result of the stress.

“I have severe chronic agitated depression since teen years,” Barbera explains. “Now I have no primary care doctor and nowhere else to go. I have been made to feel like a worthless nothing.”

This is not the first time a woman has lost access to critical medical services due to her “gender critical” views.

In October of last year, a woman identified as Emma by the UK’s Daily Mail was banned from having an operation in London’s Princess Grace Hospital because she requested single sex accommodation. The woman, who had been scheduled for a complex colorectal operation, also expressed that she did not want to “use pronouns or engage with such manifestations of gender ideology.”

Despite having experience being the victim of sexual assault, Emma was banned from having her procedure at the facility for requesting single-sex care.

[celestial-dimetrodon]

fuck the portland police borough. i got pepper sprayed and my classmates were tear gassed. we're just students for fucks sake, there was no violence until the police showed up. i don't feel safe on campus anymore and it's not because of the protesters.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[victusinveritas]

Seen inside the Portland State University encampment.

[februaryberries]

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PSU students in portland oregon protesting police presence on their campus in response to the encampment in the library. PPB used rubber bullets and pepper spray. you can see them dragging a protester in a wheelchair away from the crowd.

Several protesters were arrested if you can contribute to the defense fund their venmo is defensefundPDX

[eretzyisrael]

by Mary Chastain

Columbia University is in shambles.

How much longer until other universities fall? Let’s check in on them.

Right now I have UCLA, Northwestern, Portland State, NYU, University of Washington, Penn State, UNC, and CUNY.

UCLA

A parent released audio of a phone call with the UCLA Police Department.

@UCLA gave permission to release this audio of her phone call with @UCLAPD as they describe the school's directive to allow protestors to restrict the movement of Jewish students. "Are the protestors allowed to block students who are paying tuition from classes? No, but unfortunately, they have taken over that area." "We've received a directive not to intervene" "So you're allowing the protestors to block the Jewish students?" "I'm not allowing it... the school is. Yes, the school is saying that they will not be removed at this time."

The school doesn’t care that these people block Jewish students from classes.

We have videos of these people blocking Jews from campus and the library. We have videos of these people assaulting Jews.

Lots of videos of campus anti-Jewish insanity here at Legal Insurrection.

[kojiarakiartworks]

December 2003 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A. 

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[carapaced]

Portland State University’s Pro Palestine protest encampment in the library has been declared unlawful and is in imminent danger of police action. Use this script to email Ann Cudd and PSU administration to let them know you do not support the police presence on campus.

[ghoulpoole]

some song lyrics about the palestine protests.

an old hard country song

is just the thing im needing.

i want you to move your bow

real hard and real slow

til you hear those strings aweeping;

i want you to hit those strings so hard

you coulda sworn you saw them bleeding,

because a hard old song of freedom

is just the thing im needing.

give me an old hard protest song.

i want you to shout your song

real loud and real long,

until your throat is croaking.

i want you out in pissing rain,

shouting til your bones are soaking.

i want you to holler loud and long for grace

while god spits right in

your goddamn face,

because i need the angry songs of

souls long since done and broken.

give me a good old fashioned protest song.

i want to see you here

on these genocidal streets,

to hear you tell those fucking cops

that til we get the justice we deserve,

they won't get a single ounce of peace.

i want you to bang a drum

with deep rage that will never cease.

because a song of POWER

is just the thing im needing.

because a fistful of four-letter words

are the only fucking words worth reading.

because a new type of country song

is just the thing i'm needing.

give me a strong new justice song.

[athleticperfection1]

Portland State Volleyball

[northernreads]

Girl did you know what the protesters did to Portland State University Library? They completely trashed the library, devastating the collection, and ruining the building. You know who’s going to have to clean that up, and who is going to decide what books to keep and throw out?

I’m not against the protesters, but destroying your library like that? I can’t support

From the second article from the Librarian/archivist that went to the library during the occupation of the building and worked with protesters to keep the collection safe:

"One bit of misinformation that Paschild would like to correct: The Dark Horse collection wasn’t stolen during the occupation.

There are two copies of all the Dark Horse materials: an archival one and a public one that patrons can read. Before the protest, library staff had moved the public collection but left the sign above empty shelves. Paschild suspects someone saw photos of the shelves and assumed the comics had been stolen.

To the contrary, “a lot of people seem to have been reading them,” Paschild says.

Paschild says she’s been distressed by how people are talking about the library and the damage.

“The library is getting talked about but not talked with,” Paschild says. “You have people who want to use this to vilify all protesters..."

I know who would have to go through the collection if it was damaged. And the person in charge of that department says the collection is fine. As for the space, it will open in the fall and in the meantime the public library is available.

It's important to do your research as there is a lot of disinformation being put out there.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Anyone claiming these were "peaceful" protests is a pathological liar.

The spin and cope will be starting, if they haven't already. We'll hear that "it wasn't the true pro-Palestine protestors; some far-right people got in there and did this." That's what they said during the BLM riots in 2020. Again, they're lying.

[laindarko100]

Solidarity with the Portland State University student protests

For months, we at PSU have been calling for our school to cut ties with Boeing, Intel, and other companies that support genocidal Israel. We, the students, do not want to receive blood money from a glorified weapons dealer. We do not want internship partnerships with them. We want the school to replace those working relationships with companies that match our values. We want them, as an institution, to call for a ceasefire and publicly stand in solidarity with Palestine. PSU has extensive anti-racist & diversity policy - we really just want them to put their money where their mouth is. It's frankly not a huge ask. Yet the Board of Trustees & Pres. Ann Cudd were silent on the matter... Until the encampments on the park blocks late last week.

Here's the thing. I've been to a peaceful free Palestine march in Portland that must have had hundreds of attendees. Nobody reported on it, nobody in government responded to it. I joined students to peacefully disrupt a finance meeting at PSU to voice concerns about Boeing & Intel. No reporting from the media, no response from PSU. They moved the meeting to Zoom before half of us even arrived for "safety reasons" - bear in mind, this was in response to a couple of students merely speaking during the first portion of the meeting to list their concerns. They did not address our concerns at all, they simply found a way to ignore us.

It's only after the encampments, only after the occupation of the library, the vandalism and trespassing, that the media is reporting, and that Pres. Ann Cudd is pausing relations with Boeing and addressing concerns (even if her responses are sub par and her promises are empty). The powers that be love to tout peaceful protest because they can easily ignore peaceful protest. And let me be clear: the occupations and encampments are not violent. They are breaking the law but that does not immediately mean they are making an unsafe environment - quite the contrary, they were taking care of each other, and making the library welcome to students who needed it for study, etc. A broken window and some graffiti - that's why the police have shown up in riot gear? Yeah, right. This isn't about safety. This is about control, it's about violently forcing the students into complacency.

I am proud of PSU's student activists and the occupants of the library. I support them and stand in solidarity with them. I admire them, and hope that I may one day be able to develop in myself the bravery they have displayed this week.

Much love. Free Palestine 🇵🇸