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DAY 14

4/29/13/ - posted by Joe Walsh

We asked, we yelled, we cried, now it is time for pressure, each week,

as long as I am able I will sit in the City Council with my shirt that says:

READ FULL POST HERE:

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March 29 2013

--> we met on the west side of the Hawthorne bridge - video is below <--

No Fluoride in Portland Water Rally on 3.15.13

http://youtu.be/TFbFCKDNxfYFbFCKDNxfY

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Brent Foster talking about the dangers of water fluoridation

http://youtu.be/LNoOYONOE00

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[The following was posted on 2/12/13]

In Portland Oregon

We are getting ready for a big fight over fluoridating our wonderful water.

Here is a short but powerful video asking why we would want to do this.

You will be asked to vote on this as soon as May of this year.

We who oppose this action wanted more time to have debates about the pros & cons on this issue.

Many of us who once supported fluoride in our water now stand against this as new and reveling science tells us that fluoride can do some serious damage if you drink it.

Don't just take my word do some research and you will also wonder why we want to poison our water.

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BARBARA ELLIS REPORTS BACK

The Columbia Gorge Protection Brigade
(neé North Portland Coal-Ition Brigade) on distributing coal-fires at terminals in Ethan Boardman

Two of us veterans of the North Portland Coal-Ition Brigade—did that 165-mile trip to Boardman to distribute 100 anti-coal-terminal fliers Sunday, Feb. 24. A lot of pre-trip research was done on Boardman itself in preparation for this combination posting/canvassing direct-action effort.

We arrived around noon accurately figuring that’s when the most people would be in the downtown area on both sides of I-84.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE on our ACTIONS! page:

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Debate on the Fluoridation of Portland’s Drinking Water (Measure 26-151)

FLUORIDE

DEBATE

4-10-13

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The Lone Vet will be on the corner of 122nd and Division about 3:30 this coming Friday 4/5/13 - to ask people to vote no on toxic waste in our drinking water, want to take a ride?

Individuals For Justice will be moving around the city for the month of April, and into May. We will do everything we can to let people know this is a bad idea and should be defeated.

VOTE NO IN MAY ON 26-151!!

~joe walsh

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We Will Be There!

*posted 2/12/13

.... attended the Portland, Or. City Council meetings

.... and the five shi-s have not seen the light [yet], they still remain in the darkness or in ignorance.

We need to pack this chamber every week, if you can will you join Individuals For Justice and hold these people to some rational standard of humanity? We need you to attend and challenge what they are doing week after week. If you can't go to the meetings would you send the 5 shi-s an email after watching the video of the meeting. It is important that we have a presence and tell them what we think should happen. Many of you know that I believe a nervous politician is a good politician. We need to do more.

Just think of what the last council did and what this new council is continuing:

Read the full previously related post by Joe Walsh HERE

.... and on the Individuals For Justice Blog Page: Here and HERE

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We Need A Name!!!

One of the things I know is that politicians worry about their legacy. They spend lots of time thinking about how people will remember them. Portland, Oregon just said bye-bye to two members of our City Council. Both have departed under serious scandals and we should remind them that they will be remembered as losers. Mayor Sam Adams lied about having a fling with a young person and decided, after two attempts to recall him failed, that he could not win another election and decided he was finished. His legacy will always be damaged.

The other jerk, Randy Leonard, has and will cost all of us lots of money as his vision of covering the reservoirs and adding a toxic waste to our wonderful drinking water hits our water bills. We have seen our water bills double under this man's tenure and what does the rest of the council have to say, they named a firehouse after him. That is the height of arrogance and must be countered. My idea is to also name an outhouse after him and I believe the one in Lownsdale Square is perfect. It sits across from City Hall and conveys a certain feeling that describes Randy Leonard to a tee. It has running water, and "Poop in and "Poop out." A fitting definition of a sh-thead and we should push the council to have a celebration to name it after him. I envision calling it Randy's Poop House #1. What do you think? Please go to my event page and offer your thoughts and anything else you want to deposit at "Randy's Poo Poo Place." I am thinking we may need some balloons with a message on them to celebrate this wonderful occasion where a politician of Randy's worth is joyously publicized.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/267522313374130

Two of us went before the city council to request a toilet/outhouse be name after Leonard but received a cold shoulder---ha! See about 27 minutes in--ha!

http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?c=49508&a=427047

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City

Council

To members of the city council of Portland, Oregon
We [INDIVIDUALS FOR JUSTICE] don't understand how this can go on,

the city of Portland should investigate how this could happen.

Please tell us what you and the rest of the council are doing to end this crazy action.

This kind of stuff makes it very hard to justify any new bond for schools.

Somebody needs to be held accountable for this waste of money.

Please let us know what you intend to do about this mess.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2013/01/steve_duin_like_we_can_afford.html

There is an issue of corruption on the highest levels that has all the elements of a good story.

Mr. Steve Dunn has reported on a problem with the brains of both the Portland Board of Education

and City Hall concerning the payments to one Yvonne Deckard. From the article:

"A retired Portland administrator earned more than $22,500 a month this past fall

through no-bid contracts with the city and Portland Public Schools.

Officials said they generally prefer competitive contracting -- which helps make sure taxpayers get the best deal --

but made exceptions for Yvonne Deckard. No one else, they said, offered her expertise."

After you read this story here is a response we

received from our newly reelected Commissioner Fritz.

"Thank you for your message.

The Portland Public School Board members

are the elected officials with the responsibility

and authority to address this issue.

Please direct your concern to them."

Amanda Fritz, Commissioner, City of Portland

I give her credit for responding, but WTF?

If she read the article by Brad Schmidt and the one

Steve Dunn of the Oregonian wrote she would know

that the city also hired this woman for a total of $22,500 bucks

to do what? The School Board has a lot to answer for,

but the city is in the middle of the whole mess. This is why

I don't trust any politician and think we should bring them home

after one or two terms, they can no longer see if they are in office too long.

We need a full investigation on this contract and make sure this does not happen again. What do you think?

For Justice,Peace and *Laughter,

Joe Walsh-Lone Vet 1/7/13

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/01/421242.shtml

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January 2 2013

Come and play

On Wednesday January 2, 2013 there is no city council meeting at 0930

but there is one at 1400, (2:00 PM.) We will have two new people on the council

and we should go to welcome them. This is a short agenda and does not take a lot of our time.

The reason for going, IMHO, is to welcome our new mayor and commissioner. Mayor Hales will be very different

than Sam and my hope is that Novick will be better than our last man who has now a firehouse and outhouse named after him.

Hales, Fritz and Novick could do some wonderful things for our city and we should encourage them to be true representatives. I will go

with one of my t-shirts that simply says, "WELCOME." Can you join us? This should be a time to celebrate, next week maybe not so much????

-Lone Vet

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9.17.12

[Joe Walsh]
In Front of City Hall - {In Regards to}

Collecting Signatures to Stop Fluoride From Being Put in Our Drinking Water.

Joe is a signature gatherer to help put the fluoride vote on the ballot....

My first day in front of City Hall was filled with drama, and I love drama. I arrived about 0900 and started to put up my sign. The announcement sign was made up of PVC piping that would hold two signs, and people could read it from both sides. When I started to put the frame together I heard and saw a police car come next to me. It was no other than officer *stuart palmiter #27244; I said under my breath, “Oh boy, this is going to be one of those days.” You see this police officer gave me a hard time not very long ago and today he was walking around giving our beloved protesters, who have been in front of the City Hall for at least the last nine months a hard time. The first thing he said to me is that you cannot build anything in front of City Hall. I said I am going to put a sign here and it is about getting people to sign a petition to put the fluoride question to all Portland voters, not leave it in the hands of the 5 shi-s who call themselves our representatives. The officer’s reply was, something like, “Well this is not going to happen here.” I said, oh yes it is.” The officer left and went into the City Hall as I continued putting together my sign holder. After a bit, officer palmiter returned and said, “We are going to let you have your sign but you must not leave it.” My response was that I was exercising my legal right to collect signatures and he was interfering with that right. He said a strange thing, something like, “I can talk to you if I want, I also have freedom of speech.” I continued having fun with him now, I pointed out, “If you are not on the job, then you should be moving your car, it’s in a place right next to a sign that says, “Government automobiles forbidden.” He continued to say something but I did not pay too much attention, he departed, but I just knew we were not finished ..... read more here

http://www.individualsforjustice.com/blog/index.blog/2283781/out-of-retirement/ --> BLOG PAGE <--

And you can watch this all on a cell phone Ustream video here by VIGILTV

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(before their arrests)

http://youtu.be/TbMpevLVZvk

VIDEO LINK - 12 . 20 . 2007

Santa and Friends from the 2007

in front of House Rep. Blumenauer's Office

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/12/370199.shtml

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STOP THE FLUORIDE POISON

More information on the anti fluoride petition

Lone Vet Report

On September 12th a number of things happened, the five shi-s voted to poison our water and many of us were told to get out of the council chambers for objecting to the vote. I remember saying two things as I was told by the chief sh-t to leave:

1. " I have been thrown out of better places than this." and

2. "Sam you voted today, our turn tomorrow."

Today we return to the scene of the crime and hand over about 35,000 signatures to the people who will count them and make sure we have enough valid signatures to get on the ballot in 2014. My understanding is that if we have enough then all actions on the fluoridation of our wonderful water will stop until the decision by the people of the great city of Portland have their say.

If we had any dignified members of the council they would resign and we would have special elections; don't hold your breath for this option.

For Justice,Peace and *Laughter,
Joe Walsh-Lone Vet
Individuals for Justice http://individualsforjustice.com
Proud member of Oregon Progressive Party, http://progparty.org/

War is failure, occupation a disgrace!

“Funding these wars is killing our troops”
http://www.mfso.org/

* Why laughter?? Because without it I would have gone insane years ago.

Sen. ** harry reid must be replaced as Majority Leader, call me when you agree or just go away!

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi

Thoreau may have also brooded over the reaction of Emerson, who criticized the imprisonment as pointless. According to some accounts, Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, “Henry, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau replied, “Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?”

Molly Ivins, "It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong."

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world."
Eugene V. Debs

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After getting home from the doctors 12/20/12, I watched and was yelling at the computer---we must defeat Fish. We have two years to talk some notable person to run against him. This was the last vote that will be cast by leonard and adams. Did I tell you that I named the restroom/toilet across the street from City Hall after leonard. It is now called the randy leonard shit-house. Salzman did not have the guts to vote so he hid someplace, we should run him out also. Amanda stood tall and said no to putting this on a special election, I got to thank her yesterday, (something I don't do enough.)

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Why Keep The System Going?

You who volunteer, give your time to helping others are part of the problem. You who serve on committees for the city, state or the federal government are keeping the system going. Without people of good will this system would collapse, so why do we do the very thing that keeps a system that will screw us going? Man, is that the 64 thousand dollar question? How many hours do you give? Just stop it now and let the system collapse. Man, am I going to get into trouble now! [full article]

12/12/12 - Joe Walsh

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Report from N3 Anti-Austerity Action in Portland

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/11/420246.shtml

From the open publishing newswire: The report from the coalition that claims responsibility for N3 in Portland,and some photos:"Despite police confrontations, the day of action succeeded in its aims of communicating that we do not consent to coming austerity programs," said Michel Losier of Portland Action Lab. "The 1% must pay for the crisis that they created."

INDYRADIO

8 streams, what's playing now is at http://indyradio.nu:2012

LIKE our Facebook page, and get continuous updates https://facebook.com/IndyRadio

RELATED N3 ANTI-AUSTERITY PIMC LINKS
[1.] [2.] [3.] [4.] [5.] [6.]

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Reservoir Rally
Sunday on October 28 @ 3 p.m.
Mt. Tabor's Reservoir#6 on S.E. 60th
(at the lowest reservoir, near Hawthorne)

Rally Around the Reservoirs!

Rain or shine spend an hour at Mt. Tabor park on Sunday to show YOUR support for retaining the beloved historic open reservoirs located in Mt. Tabor and Washington Parks. We'll invite the media and those running for City Council.

SUPPORT THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY

http://progparty.or

Lone Vet Comments on Portland Indymedia 4/12/12

regarding the local election process and the big players capital they use for advertising etc while no media attention nor access to public debates by the "other" candidates all this equates to is more local voting injustice

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/04/414948.shtml

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This is a protest to remind people going home for the weekend that we continue our war in Iraq with mercenaries, still murdering civilians in Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Somali, and any country we think will hurt us or Israel. We are, along with NATO, dropping uranium laced bombs and missiles on small countries and telling the world we are saving them from evil leaders.

President Obama decided HE can murder women and children at will without any meaningful debate in the Congress of the United States; an impeachable offense.

Come and join us and take a ride on the Justice side.

Our signs this week will read:

"NO WAR
SYRIA OR IRAN
EVER”

- Joe Walsh 2/9/12

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2012 Individuals For Justice recommendations

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/03/414549.shtml 3/22/12

author: Lone Vet e-mail:

e-mail: lonevet2008@comcast.net

[recommendations based on Individuals for justice survey]

These are noble people and should be elected to represent us on the local level

Individuals For Justice recommends a vote for the following:

Cameron Whitten

for Mayor, Individuals For Justice has often called for young and noble people to step up and Cameron is just that, we like the way he thinks and calls for "Unity."

Commissioner #1

Teressa Raiford

We like her position on gun control and she thinks about how to create jobs in Portland.

Commissioner #4

Mark White

. We watched Mark's work on the Charter Commission and know he was concerned about the least among us. He wants to help and has the experiences to do just that--help! Only single candidate to receive the Oregon Progressive Party's nomination.

We looked at the following criteria:

1. Non-career politician, understands that they are representatives of the people and not a know-it-all elitist.

2. Understands that to be a leader one must listen.

3. Will work to re-establish the Charter Commission.

4. Are not bought by the Business Alliance.

5. Equitable treatment of all.

6. Will hold police accountable.

We, IFJ, refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils. We want candidates that we can believe in and support. These are three noble people who will do their best.

Disclaimer:

All have not signed on to our criteria but have talked about most of the issues we are concerned with during our evaluation of the candidates.

Dream candidates must include:

Dan Meek for attorney-general. Or, better still, secretary of state.

And how about Joann Bowman Hardesty for Commissioner?

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See past videos from the "Individuals For Justice"

These are videos are from 2007 to 2011

http://www.joe-anybody.com/id134.html

Arrest Bush and Cheney - Impeach Judge Bybee - Protest at Pioneer Courthouse

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Judge j. bybee

" BUG JUDGE "

PORTLAND

PROTEST

3/5 - 3/9

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IMPEACH bYbEE VIDEO

2009-2011 ARCHIVES!

http://www.joe-anybody.com/id134.html

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ARREST

BUSH & CHENEY!

IMPEACH BYBEE!

http://www.joe-anybody.com/id134.html

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2009 - 2011 - IMPEACH bybee VIDEOS

ARREST

bush, cheney & bybee

http://www.joe-anybody.com/id100.html

Impeachment Bush - Protests at House District 3 Representative Earl Blumenauer

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Stop The F-ing War Protest on January 27 2012

Part 1 of 3

http://youtu.be/UT2ui9b_vFw

Part 2 of 3:

http://youtu.be/QTkA35wxjSo

Part 3 of 3:

http://youtu.be/OMBIJqlG_1Q

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Santa Clause

was at

"Stop The F-ing Wars"

Protest on 12/16/11

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OCCUPY WALL STREET

Occupy Portland

OCCUPY WASHING DC

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We will return on 2/3/12 to the Hawthorne Bridge

on the West-side near 1st & Madison this Friday at 1530, (3:30 PM).

President Obama decided HE can murder woman and children at will without any meaningful debate in the Congress of the United States; an impeachable offense. Come and join us and take a ride on the Justice side. My sign this week will read:

"Middle East WARS GO ON”"

- Joe Walsh 2/2/12

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Reminder! Reminder! Reminder!

WEDNESDAY 9:00AM - 11/9/11

This Wednesday I will return to City Hall to let them know that we want a new council come November of 2012. Randy not running, Sam not running and Amanda is running against Mary Nolan. We told the City Council not to vote for the JTTF, they did. We told the City Council not to vote for the Sit-Lie (lie) ordinance, they did. We told them not to cave in on the covering of the reservoirs, they did. Two out of the three up for reelection are not running because they know they would lose, only Commissioner Fritz remains to defeat. We have a great opportunity to vote in 3 new people, a majority of the council and we should do that to send a message that if you go against your constituents, you are gone--finished--out of there--can you hear me yet Commissioners Salzman and Fish. We honored ourselves by protesting against these measures but got busy with other stuff, rejoin the fight----we are winning this one.

We should ask all candidates if they will rescind these terrible ordinances and actions by this group of "Dropes!"

City Hall
0900 out front on 4th Street in Portland Oregon

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Archives

No Fluoride in Portland Water Rally on 3.15.13

http://youtu.be/TFbFCKDNxfYFbFCKDNxfY

SUPPORT THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY

http://progparty.or

2012 Individuals For Justice recommendations

OCCUPY WALL STREET