Hi everyone!
If you've come across this site in search of historical materials related to the Occupy Wall Street movement in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, you've come to a good place.
Here, I maintain the primary-source materials related to Occupy Portland, in particular, the group that I organized: Interfaith Guild of Chaplains (later renamed Interfaith Solidarity Cascadia, and then Lightspark Commons). The IGC was inspired by the Protest Chaplains group in Boston, which was organized by several seminary students.
During the 39-day "occupation" of three downtown Portland parks (Chapman Square, Lownsdale Square, and Terry Schrunk Plaza), we have conducted 20 different faith-based and interfaith events, in addition to providing a chaplaincy service to respond to various challenging scenarios. IGC was supported by a number of current and retired ministers.
All the materials herein are maintained here unedited since 2014 (except to change dead links to ones on Archive.org or Archive.today if archived copies are available) and shown as-is.
