Portland, OR – On April 4, angry protesters marched to Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s house, demanding he revoke the conditional land use permit for the ICE detention facility. The protest, organized by Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD), began at Wilshire Park and drew a crowd of over 50 in front of the mayor’s home.

The city of Portland issued a land use violation of the permit to the facility on Macadam Avenue in September 2025, after public pressure as the city faced threats of the deployment of the National Guard. Since then, Wilson has allowed landowner Stuart Lindquist to stall the process and appeal the violation to delay any consequences.

In March, the ICE facility landowner, Lindquist, rescinded his appeal to the city’s upholding of the land use violation, meaning Portland officials can begin enforcing the fine at any time. Protesters condemn the lack of enforcement by their city leaders.

During this time, Portland has faced increased immigration enforcement with violent detentions peaking in the fall of 2025. In January 2026, two immigrants were shot by ICE in Portland, and many others faced unlawful and brutal kidnappings.

Andrew Nourie with Freedom Road Socialist Organization told the crowd, “For the last year, Portland has been under attack by the federal government. The people have demanded action from our mayor and the city government, and in response we’ve received silence and a clear commitment to business as usual.”

PDXCD has sent over 1000 emails to the mayor requesting he take action and heard nothing from him for months. After protesters marched to his home in early February, his team reached out to the organization to coordinate a meeting.

Isabella Shepherd, one of the founding members of the campaign to Revoke the ICE Permit, said at the rally: “He insisted on bringing 15 other people [to the meeting] from other groups to argue with the four of us he allowed us to bring, so he wouldn’t have to say any of his own vile opinions out loud himself.”

Members of the campaign say the meeting made it clear the mayor is committed to keeping the ICE facility open, which is why they’ve returned to protest at his house.

The crowd chanted, “Keith Wilson, do your job!” as they occupied the street in front of his home for over an hour. Cars driving by honked their support, and a small crowd of supportive neighbors and passersby formed on a nearby street.

Activists dumped spent munitions ICE used on protesters during this last year on the front porch of the mayor’s house, yelling “No justice, no peace!” saying there will not be peace at home for Wilson while immigrants are terrorized by ICE in their homes.

Sage Joyce with PDXCD said the group brought the canisters because “Keith Wilson should not have freedom from chemical munitions he allows to be used against Portlanders who dare to stand up to ICE!”

Organizers said they are determined to keep up pressure on the city of Portland to move forward in the land use violation process for the ICE facility.

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Portland, OR – On Saturday, March 7, Portland For Palestine (P4P) organized a rally to oppose the U.S. war on Iran. The protest comes in the wake of continuing aggression against Iran led by a U.S.-Israel coalition. About 75 people joined in, including Iranians, who had come to voice their objection to unilateral strikes against their homeland.

This is the second such action P4P has organized in as many weeks as the news from the region becomes more and more grim. Protesters held signs that read, “U.S. hands off Iran.”

P4P organizer Judas Graves said, “Even though the demonstration had many different communities in Portland attend, we are all affected by the murder machine currently operated by the U.S. and Israel.” Graves continued, “Understanding what we’ve done to Iran and her people for nearly 100 years clearly shows how we have ended up where we are today.”

Kacey DeSantis, organizer for P4P said, “To me it's not aa complicated conclusion to draw; I think this war is a waste of money and displays the U.S.'s disregard for human rights and diplomacy.”

The energy of the crowd was boisterous and defiant as protesters demanded an end to aggression against sovereign nations while conditions domestically get worse.

Adding to the drama of the day was a small contingent of far right-wing counter-protesters. DeSantis said, “There was a lot of commotion and noise from right-wing agitators, but the crowd kept up very loud and consistent chanting! Every time the agitators would get quiet, the sound of the crowd was deafening.”

The main agitator in question, Tommy Allen, has been known to assault protesters with pepper spray, unprovoked. The Portland Police Bureau stood idly by as Allen sprayed at least three organizers and three protesters without warning.

P4P is determined to keep organizing their community to lift up their voices in opposition to U.S. wars, no matter what the brutal and backwards opposition has to say about it.

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Portland, OR – On February 28, in response to the U.S.– Israeli airstrikes on Iran, including on an elementary school, 100 people gathered at Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland to denounce the attacks and call for an end to the war.

News of the strikes came late at night on February 27. Portland for Palestine (P4P) and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) called and organized the protest, which began the very next day.

“The United States has spent decades trying to manufacture consent in order to invade Iran. Every time the United States attempts to impose their will on another nation we have seen countless unnecessary deaths and destruction brought upon the citizens of those countries,” said Andrew Nourie, an organizer with P4P.

Protesters held signs that said, “No war on Iran!” and “End U.S. imperialism” and flew the flags of Palestine and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“As a sovereign nation under attack, Iran has every right to defend itself,” explained Holly Brown of FRSO, “We’ve seen very clearly how far the U.S. is willing to go to destabilize nations that do not succumb to its repression with the recent kidnapping of President Maduro and the First Lady Cilia Flores in Venezuela.”

After speeches from the organizers, the crowd took to the streets to march through downtown Portland. The crowd chanted “No more sanctions! No more bombs! No war with Iran!” and “Trump wants war, Trump wants oil, hands off Iranian soil!” The march passed by the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building.

With the U.S. and Israel continuing to strike Iranian cities and Iran retaliating by striking U.S. military bases, there will likely be further imperialist escalation on the part of the United States. At the time of writing, over 555 Iranians have been killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes since February 28. Organizers of the February 28 rally are committed to protesting against every escalation that’s to come.

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Portland, OR – On February 18, immigrant rights organization Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD) held a rally at city hall to demand city council take immediate action to revoke the permit for the Portland ICE facility. The event turned into a violent suppression of protest by the Portland Police Bureau, with multiple arrests.

The night began with high tensions as local right-wingers antagonized protesters at the rally by yelling “I love ICE” in megaphones and the unprovoked pepper spraying of five activists. At the same time, city hall security came out and told Cole Dunahugh, a regular protester at city hall, that he was “trespassed” from the building and not allowed to enter. When documentation was requested, it was not provided. The right-wingers who assaulted protesters were allowed to enter city hall.

Activists were not deterred, continued chanting and refused to allow the reactionaries to silence their message.

After the rally, protesters entered the chambers and provided compelling testimony demanding the council take action to shut down the ICE facility and called out the councilors’ hypocrisy.

“The fact that some of you have the audacity to ride the wave of ‘Abolish ICE’ while you unironically have argued and defended keeping the Macadam ICE facility open for the sake of immigrants might be the worst of your offenses,” said Elijah Thahir, referencing many of the councilors’ claims that the facility must be kept open to “serve” immigrants.

The city administrator was asked to give an update on the ICE facility, which has been issued a violation for holding detainees past a 12-hour limit. The enforcement process was stalled for five months while the city granted the landlord multiple extensions on an appeal. Only recently did the city deny the landlord’s appeal, after PDXCD protested at the mayor’s house and at the office of permitting and development.

As the city administrator gave excuses for the inaction of the city, those in the chambers chanted, “Revoke the permit.”

Susan Anglada-Bartley, the original creator of the petition to revoke the permit, walked up to the desks of the councilors with a printout of all 19,000 signatures on a petition to revoke the permit. She was placed in a chokehold by security and physically assaulted.

At this point, City Council President Jamie Dunphy immediately shut down the meeting, ordered security to remove protesters, and all the councilors left the room to reconvene the meeting online.

Protesters continued to stay in the chambers, chanting for around 30 minutes. At this point around 30 police officers entered city hall and arrested Anglada-Bartley. The rest of the protesters linked arms and refused to move, and were violently pushed down a flight of stairs out of city hall by the police. Madison Delsanter and Henry Roloff were arrested for “trespassing,” despite being confined in a space they could not leave by police.

On the other side of the building, Cole Dunahugh was also arrested for “trespassing” despite the fact he was never allowed to enter the building.

Protesters immediately moved the protest from city hall to the nearby jail and held a rally to demand the release of the four detained activists. Three of the activists were released the same night, and one the next day. All face charges.

Rather than apologize for their use of force to suppress the free speech of Portlanders, city council members and the Portland Police Bureau doubled down the next day.

Councilor Loretta Smith posted on her Facebook calling the protest a “mini insurrection” and told press she is drafting legislation to allow councilors to open carry in meetings with the public, implying she would shoot immigrant rights protesters.

The Portland police held a press conference to justify their use of force where Police Chief Bob Day stated he sent “nearly every available officer” working in the city at the time to attack the protesters. He attempted to blame protesters for this egregious attempt to silence First Amendment rights by stating this was a “drain on the city's resources.”

“Why is Bob Day blaming his irresponsible act of over-policing and violence on protesters?” questioned Kacey DeSantis, “It was completely unnecessary for him to send any police officers to prevent the city council from hearing from its constituents. He should be ashamed.”

PDXCD will hold a press conference and protest on February 20, before the arraignments of Dunahugh, Anglada Bartley and Madison Delsanter. They demand that all the charges are dropped, that the city of Portland stop criminalizing free speech, and take action to shut down the ICE facility.

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Portland, OR – Over 100 protesters rallied in front of Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s home on Saturday February 7, to demand he take immediate action to shut down the Portland ICE Facility. The protest was called by the immigrant rights organization, Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD).

“Federal agents are terrorizing Portland. Whether it is immigrants living under the threat of deportation by ICE or residents of the South Waterfront neighborhood subject to constant chemical warfare from DHS attacks, there are so many who don’t feel safe in their own homes. That is why we protest at the mayor’s house today, to show him how urgent this situation is,” said protester Cami Saunders.

The action began at a nearby park with speeches calling out Mayor Wilson’s performative statements and lack of action.

The weekend prior, DHS gassed a march of thousands of people organized by labor groups. In response, the mayor put out a statement telling ICE to “leave” and “resign.”

Yet, despite these words, he has put forth no legislation or orders to make this happen. In fact, a few days after this statement, he put out an editorial telling mayors to “stay the course” and stated, “Know that public frustration with the limitations of our offices will continue to invite provocateurs and opportunists. They’ll insist that local police can impede or arrest federal officers at will, or that wielding civil land use laws and implementing fines can effectively remove ICE from our communities.”

The protest marched to the mayor’s house and held the street in front of his home for over an hour with chants of “Keith Wilson shame on you! Immigrants are people too,” “Revoke the permit” and “Do your job!”

A land use violation was issued in September 2025 against the Portland ICE facility for holding detainees past a 12-hour limit, and the city has yet to take any action to enforce this violation, much less revoke the permit, despite it being fully within their power to do so.

On February 5, PDXCD members went to Portland Permitting and Development Offices and interrupted a meeting with department director Eric Kutch to demand to know what he will be doing to shut down the Portland ICE Facility. They were kicked out of the building by police.

This follows a pattern of activists being shut down and refused conversation.

PDXCD has sent over 1000 emails to the mayor requesting action, and prior to this past week heard nothing back. It was only after the protest at his house was announced that his staff reached out to set up a meeting. PDXCD is working on setting up this meeting where they will bring forth their demand to shut down the ICE Facility.

After the protest at the mayor’s house many protesters stated they felt ready to continue to ramp up the pressure on the mayor and city in general to shut down the facility.

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Portland, OR – On February 1, over 1000 Portlanders protested outside of Portland City Hall to stand against the killing of Alex Pretti, Renee Good and all those murdered by ICE, and to demand city government revoke the permit for the Portland ICE facility. The protest, organized by Portland Contra Las Deportaciones marched two miles from city hall to the Portland ICE facility.

Speaker Holly Brown called out Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and city councilors, saying months of cries to shut down the facility have been met with “not only inaction, but deliberate stalling, condescension, and lies.”

Protesters chanted “Do your jobs!” targeting Wilson and other city officials. Another rally speaker, Beatriz Ibarra, noted Custom Border Patrol agents shot two Portland residents just one day after Renee Good was murdered in Minneapolis. “Our mayor and city council send us nothing more than thoughts and prayers, while ICE agents rampage our streets,” Ibarra said.

Once at the ICE facility, furious protesters stormed the driveway, occupying the street and gated entrance. They began banging on the walls, shaking the gate, yelling “We aren’t scared of you!” as agents began shooting projectiles from the roof into the crowd.

ICE’s initial violent attempts at crowd control did not deter protesters. When federal officers opened the gates, they launched tear gas canisters and flash bangs into the crowd. One protester described the scene, saying “it was like a war zone.”

Just the day before, federal agents gassed a crowd of thousands, including families and union leaders, sparking public outrage. The increasing use of chemical weapons in the heart of Southwest Portland increases the pressure on city officials to take action to shut down the facility.

Tear gas used against protesters on Sunday spread throughout SW Portland, even crossing the Willamette River impacting neighborhoods on the East side. Despite the volume of gas being deployed, a large crowd stood their ground outside the ICE facility until after midnight.

In response to the chemical warfare used against protesters, Mayor Keith Wilson put out a statement telling ICE agents to resign and stating he will begin implementing fees on the facility. Protesters cried out that this is not enough and will not solve the problem. They remain undeterred in their demand to close down the facility.

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Portland, OR – On January 24, immigrant rights organization Portland Contra Las Deportaciones held an emergency rally to protest the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Despite only a few hours’ notice, over 500 participants joined the rally, beginning at Elizabeth Caruthers Park and marching to the Portland ICE facility.

Speeches demanded justice for Alex Pretti and Renee Good, also murdered by ICE. They also demanded the city of Portland take immediate action to revoke the permit for the Portland ICE facility.

When at the Portland ICE facility, protesters occupied the driveway, banging on the doors and boarded-up windows. An industrial trashcan and other objects were pushed against the gate to the building. Protesters chanted, “You are murderers!” at the agents behind the gate.

In response, federal agents deployed chemical weapons on the protesters, such as HC gas, known for its serious health impacts.

The ICE facility is in a residential neighborhood, with an affordable housing complex directly across the street, that has been subject to chemicals like these for months, another reason why PDXCD demands the ICE facility is shut down.

Despite the chemical attacks, protesters maintained the driveway and did not back down. More and more people continued to show up as the night went on.

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Portland, OR – A January 21 protest at Portland City Hall to demand the revocation of the permit for the Portland ICE facility erupted as protesters shut down the city council meeting and were violently ejected from the building by Portland police.

Portland Contra Las Deportaciones called for the event after the Minneapolis murder of Renee Good and the Portland shooting by Border Patrol of Nino-Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras. Given the escalation in violence by ICE, the group urged city council and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson to take immediate action to shut down the ICE facility.

After a rally outside city hall with 60 in attendance, the group entered city hall for public comment. Members spoke to the urgency of the moment. A land use violation notice was issued to the Portland ICE facility in September 2025, and the city has yet to collect fines, or begin the revocation process.

“Portland City Council, this legislative body, needs to be treating this like the emergency situation it is.” said organizer Kacey Desantis in a public comment, “We have killer ICE in our streets and members of Portland’s own police force that agree with their actions. This is a public safety emergency.”

Mayor Keith Wilson put out a statement regarding the permit while the protest was underway stating, “Regarding the notice of violation issued to the ICE facility, we must follow the process. We cannot allow hasty action to prevent us from taking meaningful action.”

Given the slow pace at which the city is handling the process, some public commenters wonder if the mayor has his priorities straight.

“Mayor Wilson, it must be really hard to properly respond to this emergency situation when you are also busy being the CEO of a company. Your position aligns more with ICE landlord Stuart Lindquist than working Portlanders affected by your inaction. Mayor, do your job and protect the safety of all Portlanders by revoking the ICE permit now,” stated Desantis.

After public comment, the city council meeting began, and members of the audience began disrupting the meeting, demanding the council take immediate action to shut down the ICE facility, and letting them know there would be no business as usual while ICE terrorizes Portland.

The council left the room for a recess and activists refused to leave the chambers, chanting slogans such as “City council, do your job! Keith Wilson, do your job!”

The council meeting resumed, with all the councilors showing up on a screen, as they left the chambers to join the meeting virtually from their offices, behind locked doors.

The crowd decided to bring the protest to their offices and left the chambers to march to each of the offices in city hall.

Protesters stood outside their offices chanting “Face the people!” and knocking on the doors. Several councilors came out of their offices to take pictures of the protesters from behind glass doors and then rejoined the virtual meeting, refusing to speak with protesters.

After 30 minutes of occupying city hall, a group of Portland police officers approached the protest and informed the group that if they did not leave they would be arrested.

Activists linked arms and refused to move. Officers came behind them and violently pushed the group out of city hall, with activists resisting the entire way. The group was pushed backwards on a flight of stairs by police, and only through holding on to each other avoided serious injury. Protesters still refused to fully leave city hall and police then pepper-sprayed the group.

When outside, the group resolved to not let this stop them and to continue to come back and demand action from Portland officials to revoke the ICE permit.

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Portland, OR – Nearly one year since Donald Trump took office as president, hundreds of Portlanders gathered to protest his latest attacks in what has been a brutal year for the American people and people across the world at the hands of U.S. aggression.

On January 17, Portland contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD) led the rally and march alongside Portland for Palestine and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and the International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS).

Starting with a 10 a.m. art-build, signs reading “ICE out of Portland” and “Revoke the ICE permit” piled up at Terry Schrunk Plaza, waiting to be taken up by incoming attendees of the demonstration. The “Revoke the ICE permit” signs relate to PDXCD’s campaign to shut down Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center, a building that has served as a central hub for ICE and other federal agencies, including the Oregon and California National Guard last October.

As over 400 people filed into the plaza for the rally, the emcee for the event started with a message about community, encouraging those in attendance to look around at their community members and know who their allies are in the fight against Trump and his attacks. The chant ‘Show me what community looks like!” echoed back with, “This is what community looks like!” filled the plaza and reverberated into nearby streets.

A speaker from Portland for Palestine, Jason Ohman, laid out the reality of what the people of the U.S. have been through in the last year, from the economic hardships and extensive layoffs of federal workers to the terror that ICE has reigned on the streets of the country, recently shooting and murdering Rene Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

Speakers from PDXCD featured a nurse who recently received retaliation from Portland’s Legacy Emanuel Hospital for distributing Know Your Rights information to other staff members. The hospital has recently come under fire for aiding and abetting ICE operations, violating HIPAA and allowing ICE officials to dictate the care of detainees, including early discharge.

Another speaker discussed the most recent abuses from ICE across the country, highlighting the shooting of two Venezuelan immigrants just last week in Portland by border patrol agents; both individuals who were discharged prematurely from Legacy Emanuel Hospital to ICE detention after suffering gunshot wounds.

From the Portland District of the FRSO, Omar Gil spoke on the importance of rising up and fighting back against Trump’s attack on the people. Gil recounts his experience at the Emergency Southwest Summit Against Deportations earlier last year in Los Angeles; “I saw people ready to fight back, ready to organize in defense of our families and neighbors, ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone and everyone that is ready to repel Trump’s attacks!”

Gil notes, “The most important thing we talked about that weekend was about the necessity to engage in struggle, rather than hiding and shrinking away. We need to pour gasoline on the fire that is the Trump presidency so that we can exact our demands!”

Militant struggle is the approach that Portland has taken directly when threatened with the National Guard occupation by Trump last year. While Democrat leaders of Portland and the state of Oregon told citizens to “not take the bait,” people poured into the streets surrounding the ICE facility in southwest Portland; a strategy that won the legal battle that blocked the National Guard from setting foot in Portland at all.

When the rally was wrapped up, a march ensued throughout downtown Portland. On a brisk and sunny winter day, many onlookers lined the streets and in intersections filming on their phones and giving gestures of support; some even joining in the march through the end.

Chants on the march were “Stand up, on your feet! Killer ICE off our streets!” and “Money for homes and education, not for war and occupation!” Police presence was heavy towards the back of the march, with many bike cops swarming the car that was tasked with following the march to ensure safety. One organizer directing traffic was threatened with arrest, citing that there was video evidence of alleged civil disorder; this was ultimately an empty threat.

The demonstration ended on a note of unity, with the emcee leading attendees in a chant, “An attack on one is an attack on all! United we stand, divided we fall!”

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Portland, OR – In the wake of ICE’s murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis , and the Border Patrol’s shooting of Luis Nino-Moncada and Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras in Portland the day after, immigrant rights organization Portland Contra Las Deportaciones staged several protests from January 7 – 9 calling for an immediate end to ICE murders and for justice for the victims of their terror.

On January 7, as news broke about Renee Nicole Good’s murder, Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD) called an emergency vigil and solidarity rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza downtown, across from Portland City Hall. Despite only hours of notice, around 300 people attended to grieve and vow to not back down in the face of escalating repression from the Trump administration.

“If they thought they were gonna scare us into submission, they have another thing coming”, said Holly Brown of PDXCD, followed by chants of “Fuck ICE!” from the crowd.

Brown continued, “If anything, they have just made our movement even bigger and even stronger, because we’re not gonna be quiet or stand down.”

The speeches also demanded action from the Portland city council and Mayor Keith Wilson, primarily to revoke ICE’s conditional use permit to operate their facility in Portland’s South Waterfront neighborhood.

Beatriz Ibarra of PDXCD declared, “We demand that the city revoke the ICE permit and remove ICE from Portland entirely.”

The next day, on January 8, a group of organizers with PDXCD’s Revoke the ICE Permit campaign walked into City Hall and up to Mayor Wilson’s office to demand a meeting with him. The campaign had sent over 1000 emails to his office demanding a meeting and a step-by-step plan from him on how he would kick ICE out of Portland as soon as possible. They planned to occupy the space in front of his office until he did so.

Around 2:30 p.m., shortly after the group walked to his office door and demanded a meeting, a contractor for Mayor Wilson’s office told the group that an emergency occurred in Portland and that Mayor Wilson was on the phone with ICE and Portland Police Bureau (PPB). The contractor said the mayor would likely not be able to meet with them that day. The group said that ICE’s presence in Portland was the biggest emergency facing the city and insisted on a meeting immediately.

Holly Brown questioned, “Is that what the mayor wants? He wants us to wait until someone in Portland gets murdered by ICE?” Over the following minutes, the organizers and gathered news crews would learn via rapid response networks that Border Patrol agents had attempted to murder two Portland resident’s half an hour earlier. Action needed to be taken immediately.

PDXCD called their second emergency action in two days, a mobilization to the Portland ICE facility. Around 7:30 p.m., 400 people had gathered to occupy the street in front of the ICE facility. PPB later sent in vans full of riot police to force protesters onto the sidewalk, but the crowd continued to chant and block the facility’s driveway even while confined to the sidewalk. After roughly half an hour, PPB officers meekly climbed back into their vans and drove away, surrendering the street to protesters.

Later, PPB returned to once again force protesters onto the sidewalk. They then charged towards and arrested five protesters, including Seth Todd, the well-known “Portland Frog.” Many of those arrested intend to fight the trumped-up charges that are alleged. After another prolonged standoff between the people and the police, PPB once again retreated to their vans and fled the scene. The protest continued without further incidents.

The third day of protests organized by PDXCD, January 9, was another protest at the Portland ICE facility, continuing to protest the two shootings that had occurred over the previous days. The event began with a rally at nearby Elizabeth Caruthers Park and was attended by Portland for Palestine (P4P), Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS). The rally reiterated the demands of revoking ICE’s permit in Portland and seeking justice for victims of ICE.

“No more fees, no more ineffective policies. What we need, what our city needs more than ever, is to rid our communities of these masked thugs!” said Andrew Nourie of P4P, “I call on city council and the mayor to revoke ICE’s land use permit!”

Some speakers at the rally pointed out how Portland city government is not only refusing to take action to protect the city’s inhabitants but actively harming those who are by using PPB to suppress them, as seen the day before.

Cass Cano of PDXCD noted, “For months we have heard from our elected officials that the federal government is just too powerful, that there’s nothing they can do. Yet every day I see ordinary people like me and you, like Renee Nicole Good, stand up to the federal government to protect immigrants. And now, when there’s been a murder at the hands of ICE, our city government, instead of protecting us, chooses to deploy riot police to brutalize us!”

Video evidence from January 8 shows one protester being repeatedly punched by a PPB officer despite already being restrained on the ground.

After the rally, the crowd of 450 marched south towards the ICE facility and once again occupy the area in front of it. On the way there, the crowd chanted “Stand up, on your feet! Killer ICE off our streets”

Unlike the day before though, PPB made no attempts to force protesters out of the street, instead opting to have a dozen officers group up at one end of the protest and stand there for over an hour. It is likely that negative coverage of their suppression of the previous day’s protest, as well as the larger crowd, led to this timid approach. Nobody was arrested for the duration of January 9 protest.

Mayor Keith Wilson and Portland city council’s unwillingness to treat ICE’s presence in Portland as an emergency continues to have consequences that harm and endanger the people of Portland. As the anti-ICE movement within the city continues to grow and gain strength, they will likely be faced with only two options. As said by the protesters, “Revocation or resign, how many more have to die?”

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Portland, OR – On Saturday, January 3, hundreds of Portlanders mobilized into the streets after the United States’ attack on Venezuela the night before, launching airstrikes and abducting President Nicolás Maduro.

The protest on January 3 was called by Portland for Palestine (P4) and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), and supported by Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD). It began at 2:30 p.m. across the street from Pioneer Courthouse Square, in the heart of downtown. Around 150 people chanted “Hands off Venezuela now! Free Maduro, free him now!” and “Trump wants war, Trump wants oil! Hands off Venezuelan soil!”

Cole Dunahugh of P4P told the crowd, “This is a war for oil, but it is also a war to do regime change on one of the few anti-Zionist governments currently standing. Venezuela cut all ties with Israel in 2009, and continues to support the resistance in their shared fight against U.S. imperialism.” Dunahugh went on to say, “The United States may have Maduro, but they do not have the vice president, they do not have the defense minister, they do not have the interior minister, and they will not have Venezuela!”

“The Venezuelan government has been a target of the United States for decades,” explained Fern Long, an organizer with P4P, “These economic foreign policies of violence and terror, such as naval blockades, sanctions and no fly zones have now become more overt. Night operations and bombings in the capital of Caracas, striking not just military assets but targeting grave sites and residential zones, while the government that fails to represent us, the people of the United States, actively continues and escalates a war on multiple fronts providing nothing but death and despair for the people.”

Around 3:30 p.m., the protest at Pioneer Square had grown to over 200 people, and marched to meet another protest.

Like protests that happened all across the country on January 3, these were organized within hours of the airstrikes on Caracas, showing the heightened level of organization of recent years, as well as the overwhelming unpopularity of the Trump administration’s violation of Venezuelan sovereignty. The anti-war movement is in a period of rapid growth and will only continue to be so as the American empire continues to decline and lash out.

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Portland, OR – Since the start of December, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson was confronted twice by activists from the Revoke the ICE Permit campaign over his lack of any meaningful actions against ICE.

These have been part of an ongoing effort from the campaign and Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD) to secure a meeting with him and demand an action plan for shutting down the Portland ICE facility as soon as possible.

The first confrontation was on December 5, at a brewery in Southeast Portland. Keith Wilson attended a beer launch and was approached by Holly Brown of PDXCD. After she introduced herself, he immediately walked away and dismissed her as she asked what his office planned to do to protect the people of Portland from ICE. Wilson said, “We’re trying to celebrate,” to which Brown responded, “It’s hard to celebrate when people are being kidnapped off our streets.”

At least 467 people have been detained by ICE in northwest Oregon since the beginning of November, with the vast majority having been detained in the Portland metropolitan area.

Mayor Wilson had the owners of the brewery remove Brown from the building, as well as others who were there to ask why he was doing so little to fight back against ICE. “That’s enough,” he said, before turning away from his constituents. The owner of the brewery then called the cops on the activists for simply asking the mayor questions at a public event.

Later that night, the same activists were able to catch him coming out of the brewery and ask more questions. Brown asked the mayor, “We want the [ICE] facility to be shut down, we know that you have the ability to make executive orders, and you are also able to speak directly to Permitting & Development. So I would like to know, are you doing this? Are you working on that?” Portland Permitting & Development is the government department with the power to begin the process of revoking ICE’s conditional use permit; it is a department the mayor has control over. Wilson said, “We’ll talk about this later” and refused to provide information on whether he’d host a town hall or other event where people can directly ask him questions about ICE.

The second confrontation came on December 8, where Mayor Wilson was a guest speaker at a city event in Northeast Portland on the topic of public safety. He was asked pre-selected questions and, despite it being the largest threat to public safety in Portland, he was only asked one question about ICE. That question asked how the city planned to address the ICE facility. At the start of his response, he emphasized that Portland must focus on “peaceful protest” and “staying between the guardrails.” On the topic of the National Guard deployment that loomed over the city from late September into early November, the mayor proudly stated, “forces were sent and they were garrisoned outside our city, we didn’t react.”

In reality, Portland reacted with a fight when Trump announced the deployment of the National Guard, with PDXCD holding a militant protest in front of the ICE Facility the day after the announcement. Due to Portland’s resistance, the deployment was defeated.

Mayor Wilson wrapped up his response by saying “We will continue to do what we do, we will continue to work with the governor, we will continue to meet them in the court of law, and we will win”. In response to this, Cole Dunahugh of the Revoke the ICE Permit campaign stood up and demanded an explanation for why Permitting & Development has given the landlord for the Portland ICE facility, Stuart Lindquist, two extensions on the deadline for him to file an appeal to the notice of land use violation he was served on September 17.

“Why are you not doing every single thing in your power to get that permit revoked? ICE is abducting hundreds of people per month, and you are sitting there, doing nothing.”

In response, Wilson said, “That’s our laws, that’s our rules”. He claimed that the city was required to give him a 14-day extension, despite extensions being discretionary, and the fact that Portland city government gave him well over a month of extensions. When Dunahugh brought this up, he didn’t respond further. These extensions ran out on December 1. Wilson and Permitting & Development have shown no signs of moving forward with the permit reconsideration process.

So long as Mayor Wilson refuses to engage with the people of Portland, and so long as he refuses to take action to revoke ICE’s permit for their Portland facility, PDXCD and the Revoke the ICE Permit campaign are committed to being wherever he shows his face and demanding accountability.

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Portland, OR – Después de semanas de grandes movilizaciones ubicadas en el centro de ICE de Portland, un juez federal bloqueó permanentemente el despliegue de la Guardia Nacional en Portland el 7 de noviembre, y un oficio de alto nivel del Departamento de Defensa confirmó con los medios que 200 policías de la Guardia Nacional de California se mandarán a regresar durante los próximos días.

Trump anunció el despliegue de la Guardia Nacional para vigilar el complejo de ICE de Portland el 27 de septiembre, lo cual causó una batalla en las calles entre los manifestantes y la administración que duró más de un mes, y resultó en decisiones a favor de los manifestantes.

Ha habido una presencia firme de los manifestantes delante del centro de ICE desde el junio 2025, cuando aumentaron en número las redadas. El desplegar de la Guardia Nacional se anunció una semana después de que la ciudad anunció una citación al centro de ICE por violar el acuerdo de uso de tierra por tener detenidos por más del máximo de 12 horas, un acto urgido por las activistas locales, como parte de la campaña para revocar el permiso de ICE y para acabar con el complejo.

Después del anuncio del despliegue de la guardia nacional, los números se aumentaron en el centro de ICE, con grandes manifestaciones encabezadas por el grupo Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD), una organización de derechos de los inmigrantes que dirigió protestas semanales de más de 400 personas en el centro de ICE, durantes las cuales cerraron el paso del camino de entrada y siguieron exigiendo la revocación del permiso.

Las manifestaciones continuas ocurrieron a pesar de los políticos de Oregon tales como el Senador Jeff Merkley quien dijo a los Portlanders “no muerdan el anzuelo” y que se queden lejos de los centros de ICE o arriesgar la introducción de medidas severas.

Los organizadores con PDXCD rechazaron su recomendación y enfrentaron a Trump preparados para la batalla. “No nos escondemos de la administración de Trump cuando intenta a cumplir con su agenda xenofóbica y racista en las calles de nuestra ciudad mediante el ejército,” dijo la organizadora Blaire Glennon.

Durante las semanas de manifestaciones después del anuncio del despliegue, el DSN detuvo a muchos manifestantes. El número mayor de las detenciones ocurrió el 4 de octubre, cuando los organizadores principales de la manifestación fueron arrestados durante los primeros 15 minutos de la acción, en una detención evidentemente premeditada.

En los procedimientos de la corte, fue revelado más tarde que la Guardia Nacional estaba presente en el centro de ICE el 4 de octubre, en plena violación a una orden de restricción temporaria impuesta contra el despliegue en la corte.

Los organizadores se animaron con prisa a proteger a los manifestantes, creando equipos de defensa legal para contraatacar la represión, mientras no dejar que arrestara el protestar en el centro de ICE.

Mientras las manifestaciones seguían con fuerza en el complejo de ICE, los organizadores llevaron a cabo la batalla contra el despliegue de la Guardia Nacional. El juicio desempeñó en relación a las manifestaciones en el Centro de ICE, como más atención de los medios se atraía mientras los manifestantes relevaban los abusos por parte de DSN y ICE, y la valentía de los manifestantes, las cortes empezaron a oponer más firmemente el despliegue, resultando en la prohibición final.

“Se debe a la gente y solo a la gente que el despliegue de la Guardia Nacional fue bloqueado. Por sostener la presión al gobierno con manifestaciones en las cuales no nos rendimos, les mostramos que sería un error enviar la guardia a Portland,” comentó la organizadora Emily Brown.

La administración de Trump contesta la prohibición permanente, y se anticipa que el juicio seguirá.

En la localidad, los manifestantes continúan a presionar a los oficios de la ciudad; PDXCD planea un protesta en la alcaldía este miércoles, el 19 de noviembre, para protestar contra una ordenanza para crear un “Centro de Detención Sin Impacto” propuesta por los Concejales de Portland Angelita Morillo y Mitch Green para imponerles una multa a los dueños privados de los centros de detención por los costos incurridos a la ciudad como resultado de las manifestaciones en las áreas cercanas. Los organizadores dicen que esto no cumple con las reivindicaciones expresadas por los Portlanders y exigen la revocación total del permiso y que el centro se cierre. 60 días han pasado desde que la citación inicial fue proporcionada y así según la ley de la ciudad el proceso de revocar el permiso puede comenzar.

Los manifestantes piensan enfrentar cada desarrollo nuevo con movilizaciones a las calles.

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Portland, OR – Tensions were high Wednesday night, November 19, as activists rallied against Councilor Angelita Morillo and Mitch Greens’ proposed Detention Facility Impact Fee, calling it a capitulation and effort to avoid revoking the ICE permit.

The proposed ordinance would charge private landlords of detention facilities for any costs the city incurs as a result of the facility being in Portland. This would include recouping money the city spends on police for crowd control to harass protesters at the ICE facility.

Protesters rallied outside city hall at 5 p.m. with calls to reject the ordinance and called for city council to instead focus on shutting down the ICE facility entirely and then entered the chambers for over an hour of public testimony, overwhelmingly against the ordinance and in favor of revoking the permit.

“Councilor Morillo stated this ordinance is the city's response to the harms being committed by ICE at the Portland ICE facility, and any future ICE facilities in Portland,” said activist Kacey Desantis, referring to Instagram posts by the councilor, “with this proposal she makes it clear the councilors do not plan to fight the construction of more ICE detention centers, just charge fees so the city does not feel the costs of those facilities – the city would effectively be getting paid off to allow more ICE facilities in Portland. We don’t want more ICE facilities, and we want the one we have shut down.”

Councilor Green and Morillo seemed to agree. A presentation by Morillo’s staffer during the discussion in the meeting stated this was not a “moralizing” ordinance but was meant to “optimize market outcomes.”

Testimony centered around a few key points.

Testifiers called out the fact that Morillo made statements that the fee would not even apply to the ICE facility unless a new contract was signed with the landlord, meaning it would not even address the issue it is claiming to solve for the foreseeable future.

Others spoke to concerns surrounding the lack of detail as to where the money would go. The councilors stated money raised through the fee will go to residents dealing with teargas from the ICE Facility, but nowhere in the ordinance does it outline that this is required or how it will occur.

In addition, that some of the money will go to overtime pay for Portland Police Bureau for carrying out “crowd control” at the ICE facility, meaning the city will be getting paid by ICE to manage protests at the ICE facility.

Many expressed anger at the council spending time on what they view as an ordinance wholly incapable of meeting the level of terror ICE is committing on the streets of Portland, and for placing a price on human suffering.

“Don’t you dare think for a second that this non-solution will convince us to let up the pressure,” said testifier Isabella Shepard, “We will accept nothing less than the revocation of the permit.”

Almost all of those testifying called for the city to move quickly to revoke the ICE permit and shut down the Portland ICE facility.

Throughout the meeting tensions boiled over with attendees yelling out their frustration at the lack of substantive action by city council, and getting ejected from the meeting.

The process for revoking the permit continues to move at a snail's pace in Portland. Stuart Lindquist, the landlord for the ICE facility, filed an appeal of the land use violation issued to him in September for the facility holding detainees past the 12-hour limit. He appealed this violation, and had a deadline of October 31 to submit any documentation, but the city granted him an extension to December 1, due to his claim that the government shutdown hindered his ability to get data, despite the fact that ICE operations reached a high in Portland during this shutdown, with 560 people arrested by ICE in Portland during the last month alone.

Activists vowed not to let up the pressure and continue to force the city to take action to revoke the permit immediately.

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Portland, OR – After weeks of large mobilizations to the Portland ICE facility, a federal judge permanently blocked the deployment of the National Guard to Portland on November 7, and a top Defense Department official confirmed with media 200 California National Guard troops in Oregon will be sent home over the next few days.

Trump announced the deployment of the National Guard to guard the Portland ICE facility on September 27, prompting a battle in the streets between protesters and the administration that lasted for over a month, and led to court decisions in favor of the protesters.

There has been a steady presence of protesters in front of the ICE facility since June 2025, when raids began to surge. The deployment of the National Guard was announced one week after the city announced a citation to the ICE facility for violating its land use agreement by holding detainees over the 12-hour limit, a move pushed for by local activists, as a part of a campaign to revoke the ICE permit and shut down the facility.

After the announcement of the deployment of the national guard, numbers swelled at the ICE facility, with large protests led by Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD), a Portland immigrant rights organization that led weekly protests of over 400 people at the ICE facility, in which they blocked the driveway and continuing to demand the revocation of the permit.

The continuous protests were despite Oregon officials like Senator Jeff Merkley telling Portlanders “don’t take the bait” and to stay away from the ICE facility or else risk further crackdown.

Organizers with PDXCD rejected this perspective and met Trump with a fight. “We don’t hide from the Trump administration when they try to carry out their xenophobic and racist agenda in the streets of our city using the military,” said organizer Blaire Glennon.

Throughout the weeks of protests after the announcement of the deployment, DHS arrested many protesters. The highest number of arrests occurred on October 4, in which the main organizers of the protest were arrested during the first 15 minutes of the action, in a seemingly targeted arrest.

In the court proceedings, it was later revealed the National Guard was present in the ICE facility on October 4, despite a temporary restraining order placed against the deployment in court.

Organizers leaped into action to protect protesters, creating a legal defense team to fight back against repression, while not allowing it to stop them from protesting at the ICE facility.

While protests raged on at the ICE facility, a battle was waged in court against the deployment of the National Guard. The court case proceeded in relation to the protests at the ICE facility, as more media attention was gathered by the protesters showing the abuse of DHS and ICE, and the fearlessness of the protesters, the courts moved to more firmly oppose the deployment, leading to the final permanent ban.

“It is due to the people and the people alone that the National Guard deployment was blocked. Through keeping up the pressure on the government with protests in which we would not back down, we showed them it would be a mistake to send the guard to Portland,” said organizer Emily Brown.

The Trump administration is appealing the permanent ban, and the court case is expected to continue forward.

Locally, protesters continue to push city officials; PDXCD is planning a protest at city hall this Wednesday, November 19, to rally against a “Detention Facility Impact Fee” ordinance proposed by Portland Councilors Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green to find private owners of detention facilities for any costs the city incurs as a result of protests in the surrounding area. Organizers say this does not meet the demands raised by Portlanders and demand the full revocation of the permit and for the facility to be shut down. 60 days have passed since the initial citation was issued and so per city code the revocation process to revoke the permit can begin.

Protesters plan to meet each new development by mobilizing into the streets.

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Portland, OR – On Wednesday, November 5, Kamala Harris came to Portland advertising her new book 107 Days, which outlines the events during her failed campaign for president. Portlanders came out to Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the rain to a protest organized by Portland for Palestine because of Harris’ pro-genocide actions.

Around 100 people attended the event, with protesters chanting slogans such as “Kamala, Kamala you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” One protester brought a projector that displayed an image of Harris with the text “genocide” written across her face.

Most of the protesters brought signs and banners to hold while attendees were waiting in line outside. The protesters were high energy during the event despite the weather, and some were trying to pass out fliers with information on Harris’ actions to the attendees in line. The protest happened on both sides of the venue to ensure that all the attendees in line were able to hear the actions that Harris took against Palestine.

A sign was posted on the doors of the venue that read “No verbal or visual heckling. Violators will be removed.” This sign was most likely posted because of the large number of disrupters that have been attending Harris’ tour in other cities.

Some attendees of the event questioned why Harris was being protested when she wasn’t in office. Kacey DeSantis, an organizer with Portland for Palestine, responded, “Kamala Harris may not be in power now, but she still holds power within the Democratic Party. It’s clear she still has a lot of sway among centrist democrats when her book tour sells out in two hours.”

Harris has been teasing a presidential bid for 2028, something the protesters were vehemently against.

Protesters also brought attention to AIPAC, the pro-genocide Zionist political action committee, which has given $9.4 million to Harris in donations. Judas Graves, a member of Portland for Palestine, gave a speech where she stated that Harris took “$9.4 million from a lobbying group that supports mostly Republicans and promotes a rabidly conservative, theocratic foreign policy agenda. You don’t have to vote for a Republican enabler, sympathizer, and collaborator.”

The protest ended at 7:30 p.m. once her supporters were through the door, and a small group that attended the protest stayed until the event was over.

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Portland, OR – A pesar de una tormenta de lluvia, cientos de residentes de Portland se movilizaron, el sábado 25 de octubre, hacia las Instalaciones de ICE en Portland para protestar en contra del despliegue de la Guardia Nacional y el aumento de los ataques de ICE, y para exigir a la ciudad que revoque el permiso de uso de suelo de la Instalación de ICE. Un manifestante fue arrestado durante el evento.

En menos de un mes, la ciudad puede iniciar el proceso de revocación del permiso para la instalación de ICE.

“No es [el concejo municipal de Portland] el que otorga su permiso para operar la instalación de ICE, sino el nuestro. Por lo tanto, nuestra es la decisión de poner fin a los comportamientos permisivos hacia grupos corruptos [como ICE] que buscan únicamente romper nuestros lazos comunes,” declaró Jason Ohmann, un manifestante y miembro del equipo de seguridad en la protesta, añadiendo, “Es importante protestar contra ICE para proteger a todos los miembros de nuestra comunidad – no les estamos pidiendo que atiendan nuestros deseos y se retiren. Les estamos demostrando que eventualmente podemos dejarles no otra opción más que hacerlo.”

Envalentonados por la promesa del despliegue de la Guardia Nacional, los oficiales del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) que custodian las Instalaciones de ICE han aumentado la agresión hacia los manifestantes con el uso de gas lacrimógeno, balas de goma y gas pimienta. Un manifestante fue arrestado y detenido, mientras que otros manifestantes fueron disparados indiscriminadamente con balas de goma.

Una manifestante, Catie Donovan, expresó: “Los agentes de ICE han violado las reglas de detención al mantener a las personas 12 horas y durante la noche. Esto sigue demostrando que no les importa la seguridad o protección de los seres humanos que están sacando de las calles,” diciendo que los agentes de ICE “son innecesariamente agresivos. Disparando balas de goma indiscriminadamente hacia la multitud desde la seguridad de su techo.”

Actualmente, la Guardia Nacional tiene prohibido entrar a Portland hasta las 5 p.m. del jueves 30 de octubre. Si los tribunales permiten este despliegue, la situación se escalará. La única opción que les queda a los funcionarios de la ciudad es atender las voces de los residentes de Portland y revocar el permiso de uso de suelo de la instalación de ICE.

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Portland, OR – Despite a rainstorm, hundreds of Portlanders mobilized on Saturday, October 25 to the Portland ICE Facility to protest the deployment of the National Guard and increased ICE attacks, and to demand the city revoke the land use permit for the ICE Facility. One protester was arrested during the event.

In less than a month the city can begin the process of revoking the permit for the ICE facility.

“It is not [the Portland city council] that lends its permission to operate the ICE facility, but ours. As such, the decision is ours to end permissive behaviors to rogue groups [such as ICE] that seek solely to break our common bonds,” Jason Ohmann, a protester and member of the safety team at the protest stated, adding, “It is important to protest ICE to protect all the members of our community – we are not asking them to heed our wishes and stand down. We are showing them that eventually we can give them no other option but to do so.”

Emboldened by the promise of the National Guard deployment, DHS officials guarding the ICE Facility have increased aggression towards protesters with the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. One protester was arrested and detained, while other protesters were indiscriminately shot with rubber bullets.

One protester, Catie Donovan, expressed, “ICE agents have violated the rules of detention by holding people 12 hours and overnight. This continues to prove that they don’t care about the safety or protection of the human beings they are taking off the street,” saying that ICE agents “are unnecessarily aggressive. Shooting rubber bullets indiscriminately into the crowd from the safety of their roof.”

Currently the National Guard is barred from entering Portland until 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 30. If the courts allow this deployment, the situation will escalate. The only option left for city officials is to heed the voices of Portlanders and revoke the ICE facility land use permit.

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Portland, OR – On October 12, thousands of protesters convened in front of the Portland ICE Facility in the pouring rain to stand against the deployment of the National Guard and demanding the permit of the ICE Facility to be revoked.

A protest was called by Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD) in collaboration with Portland for Palestine (P4P), the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Revoke the ICE Permit (RIP) and Tesla Takedown PDX.

Organizers like Cass Cano, detained last week by ICE and DHS while protesting, spoke out against the repression faced by protesters, as well as ICE’s continued terrorization of immigrants, stating, “They detained my comrades and are hoping we would be scared and stop fighting, but we won’t stop until the facility is shut down and ICE is out of Portland.”

The protest was joyful and many in attendance were in costumes such as inflatable animal suits. Unpresidented Brass Band, a Portland protest staple, was in attendance in banana suits. The group marched to the ICE Facility and blocked the driveway, while the band played music across the street. As has been the case for several months, DHS and ICE periodically came out and pushed protesters and shot them with chemical munitions.

This protest marked a distinct change in Portland Police Bureau's response, as the police came out and shoved protesters with their bikes, threatening arrest and essentially assisting ICE with crowd control.

At the same time, PDX World Naked Bike Ride began an emergency ride in downtown Portland. The World Naked Bike Ride puts on an annual protest ride each summer by bikers, many without clothing, “calling attention to oil dependency, cyclist vulnerability, and the beauty of body freedom.”

Organizers of World Naked Bike Ride called for an emergency ride in response to Trump’s attacks on Portland and organizers with PDXCD coordinated with them to link up their protests.

At 4:15 p.m. just as DHS and ICE were coming out of the facility to push back protesters, the World Naked Bike Ride arrived at the facility. The crowd was ecstatic as thousands of bicyclists rode through, filling the streets with people. As the band played people stopped, got off their bikes, joined in with chants and danced to the band. ICE and DHS retreated into their building as there were too many people in the streets for them to push protesters back. Bikers with no clothing got off their bikes and pushed back ICE and DHS and were shot in their stomachs with pepper balls.

As the crowd thinned out while the bikers continued along their ride, ICE and DHS came out again and attacked protesters more aggressively than before. They detained five people, chasing one protester into the band. The officers subsequently maced the band, tackled a band member and dragged them into the detention facility. All of those detained were held overnight and transferred across state lines to Clark County Jail in Washington.

Organizers from the coalition of groups that organized the event vowed to keep coming out, demanding the charges be dropped and that the city revokes the permit for the ICE facility and shuts it down.

“Every time ICE and DHS attack us, they think they’re going to shut us down, but in reality they just bring more people to our side. We won’t be silent while immigrants’ rights protesters are being brutalized and immigrants are being kidnapped in Portland. We’ll be out here again and again until we shut down this facility,” said organizer Cole Dunahugh.

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Portland, OR – On October 7, over 100 people gathered in downtown Portland to rally and march on the two-year anniversary of October 7, 2023 – the day that the resistance movement in Gaza broke out of its open-air prison and brought the Palestinian liberation movement to the forefront of politics around the world.

The event was organized by Portland for Palestine and included speeches from Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and Portland Contra Las Deportaciones (PDXCD).

Portland is currently Trump’s latest target with attempts to federalize the National Guard. Trump is peddling extraordinary lies about the city, stating that it’s “war torn” and “burning to the ground.”

The rally took place during the recent aftermath of five organizers from the participating organizations being detained by ICE and DHS during protests at the Portland ICE facility the previous weekend. These detainments, meant to discourage activity, had the exact opposite effect, with all of the former arrestees being present at this event.

Holly Brown, an organizer from FRSO who was detained over the weekend, stated that they did not have a speech prepared due to the events of the last few days but reflected on their experience, “While I was detained for just a few hours, I spent my time thinking about Palestine – how the freedom fighters never gave up despite being held in similar and worse ways for years, decades even.”

Portland for Palestine organizer Kacey Desantis made the connection clear: “Protesters are being gassed, tased, chased, beaten and detained in the name of silencing a resistance movement – this is only a small part of what the Palestinian people have faced for the last 100 years. We must remember this. We must recognize that our country, as it inflicts this terror upon its citizens, first and foremost inflicted this terror upon oppressed nations around the world.”

As the sun was setting, the crowd began to march through downtown Portland and past Portland State University. Throughout the march, chants such as “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!” and “Money for homes and education, not for war and occupation!” caused many passersby to nod in agreement while clapping and chanting along. Even more tailored chants could be heard. like, “From Venezuela to Palestine, all this killing is by design!” and “No ICE raids, no deportation! No Israeli occupation!” drawing a direct correlation between American imperialism and the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

The march ended where it took off at Terry Schrunk Plaza where the emcee for the night declared, “If the people of Gaza aren’t giving, we sure as hell are not giving up!”

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