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Speaker 1: Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. As the
Speaker 1: sun began to tuck away for winter, so did many
Speaker 1: Portlanders who had spent the summer out protesting. As the
Speaker 1: days grew shorter, a shrunken but dedicated group of activists
Speaker 1: continued to pound the streets in their call for justice.
Speaker 1: The early days of the protests had been fueled in
Speaker 1: part by the massive lockdown and the layoffs that came
Speaker 1: with it. As the pandemic wore on, economic collapse contributed
Speaker 1: to street activism in new ways. Portland has been in
Speaker 1: a housing state of emergency since two thousand fifteen, as
Speaker 1: it was declared by former Mayor Charlie Hales and extended
Speaker 1: by his successors in the city council again in two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen for two more years. For a long time,
Speaker 1: thousands of Portland's had lived one paycheck away from homelessness,
Speaker 1: and in thousands more found themselves on the edge of
Speaker 1: a cliff. To stave off disaster, a pandemic eviction moratorium
Speaker 1: was adopted by local lawmakers. It included no forgiveness or
Speaker 1: grace period from mr rent. This meant that while you
Speaker 1: wouldn't get kicked out of your home for missing rent,
Speaker 1: all that unpaid rent still stacked up. At the time
Speaker 1: of recording, eighty nine thousand households in Oregon are subject
Speaker 1: to eviction when the state's moratorium expires, owing more than
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy eight million dollars in collect of
Speaker 1: back rent. Now, evicting all of those people would cost
Speaker 1: the state three billion dollars, eight times more than the
Speaker 1: total back rent owed. Near the end of the whole
Speaker 1: situation wound up coming to a head in the battle
Speaker 1: over a single property, the red House on North Mississippi Avenue.
Speaker 1: Coming up next is a lane Portland has spent the
Speaker 1: last decade basking in its image. Is a liberal playground
Speaker 1: of bird stickers and local war foodies. However, this hides
Speaker 1: the concerted destruction by developers and city planners of Portland's
Speaker 1: black community in the Albina District. During that same time,
Speaker 1: the area was redlined for blacks, with local government working
Speaker 1: in concert with real estate agents and banks to guarantee
Speaker 1: black people virtually had no options to live outside the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Following the Vanport floods of ninety eight, local lawmakers and
Speaker 1: real estate interests coordinated to ensure that thousands of black
Speaker 1: individuals and families suddenly without a home could look nowhere
Speaker 1: else but a small section of inner North and Northeast
Speaker 1: Portland if they were to live within city limits. The
Speaker 1: mostly European An immigrant populated neighborhood flipped almost overnight, with
Speaker 1: many other residents quickly fleeing the area to avoid living
Speaker 1: near black people. Shortly after the flood, close to sevent
Speaker 1: of the state's black population lived in the Albina District. Consequently,
Speaker 1: the neighborhood has been the nucleus to much of the
Speaker 1: city's black community for generations. The Portland Police Bureau conducted
Speaker 1: years of targeted harassment aimed at the Albina community. Years
Speaker 1: of blight, systemic disinvestment and policing have led to a
Speaker 1: mass exodus of Blacks from the central Albina core. Many
Speaker 1: left to the fringes of the city in search of
Speaker 1: lower rents. As North Northeast Portland suddenly became prime real estate, quickly,
Speaker 1: the place so many called home was eroding before their eyes.
Speaker 1: Here the snack Mamas on the gentrification of Albina and
Speaker 1: some history of North Northeast Portland. Yeah it's hard, turned like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to watch the change. Sometimes I get
Speaker 1: really angry. It's hard. It's hard to watch it upsetting.
Speaker 1: But everything looks all nice and fancy, but nobody knows
Speaker 1: how it got that way. Emmanuel Hospital, I mean, fucking break,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's nice to
Speaker 1: have a hospital there, it really is. I mean, but
Speaker 1: you could have cleared the fucking freeway stuff you're right there,
Speaker 1: I mean, get Motor Center out of there and put
Speaker 1: a hospital right there. Like, I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: was there before Motor Center was, but I'm sure you
Speaker 1: know the quarter they changed. Figure it out, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But your tearn families and homes who
Speaker 1: lived there for I was like my my son's grandmother.
Speaker 1: She lived on thirty three and Prescott, right there on
Speaker 1: the corner. She's like in her late nineties. It came
Speaker 1: in pretty much still that house from up underneath her
Speaker 1: and they're always the blocks with all the you know,
Speaker 1: moved into like a hotel like apartment thing and died
Speaker 1: shortly after that. And it's like, it's it's upsetting when
Speaker 1: I drive by and see and I'm like, God, damn,
Speaker 1: I don't draw my car through that house, you know,
Speaker 1: But it's upsetting the way they do things and the
Speaker 1: way they you know, re home people in that, you know,
Speaker 1: the wounds run deep. In the last decade, homeownership for
Speaker 1: black Portlanders has fallen, not risen. Perhaps more striking is
Speaker 1: their representation in the houseless population. About seven point two
Speaker 1: percent of Multnomah Counties population is black, but according to
Speaker 1: their most recent point in time count, which was released
Speaker 1: in pre COVID times, it showed that black Portlander's accounted
Speaker 1: for more than sixteen percent of the houseless in the area.
Speaker 1: A policy adopted by the City of Portland, designed to
Speaker 1: give residents with historic ties to inner North and Northeast
Speaker 1: helps illustrate how deep the need is. The policy gives
Speaker 1: first DIBs at select new apartments being developed by the
Speaker 1: Housing Bureau, assists existing homeowners in the area with maintenance
Speaker 1: and foster's home ownership opportunities. When applications for the first
Speaker 1: round of units opened up, in thousands applied to live
Speaker 1: in the handful of units. More complexes have been built
Speaker 1: since and dozens more served for the home repair and
Speaker 1: ownership opportunities. But every time applications open, the systems are
Speaker 1: flooded with people just hoping to make the weight list. However,
Speaker 1: for people that qualify, some feel like the program does
Speaker 1: not go far enough to remediate the damage that was
Speaker 1: done to the community. The snack mom must continue. Why
Speaker 1: even that program has problems since it limits the ownership
Speaker 1: rights of the family that it helps to return. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I entered into this program for the Blama County did
Speaker 1: UM for people who lived in North Portland and we're
Speaker 1: kind of pushed out, so I entered that program. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, this is fucking complete bullshit. You're asking people
Speaker 1: who have been kicked out of their homes because of
Speaker 1: you guys have great fucking credit to get into this
Speaker 1: program and to um be able to buy a home
Speaker 1: on their own ship. But yet you own the land,
Speaker 1: they can own the home. Like fuck, go funk yourself,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, that's what it is. They own the
Speaker 1: people back. Yeah you can't. You can't do they own
Speaker 1: that land. You own the home, mind you when they
Speaker 1: get a piece of that money when you sell your
Speaker 1: home because they helped to get into there, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you can't do any work on the land or
Speaker 1: or tear the house down and build, and you can't
Speaker 1: do what you want to do. That's their fucking land,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're just owning the home on it.
Speaker 1: So it's not actually nothing people get back absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: and so and so, like you have choices between um
Speaker 1: all these little houses or our little buildings or town
Speaker 1: homes or whatever. Like there was nothing that was over
Speaker 1: like three two bedrooms I think two or three bedrooms
Speaker 1: on any of those lists. Because I've got a family
Speaker 1: of five, you know, I'm just like, fuck, like none
Speaker 1: of that should share for me, Like what's what's the deal?
Speaker 1: Can I build on it? No? You can't build anything
Speaker 1: else on it? What the fuck? You know? Finding out
Speaker 1: that that's their property, you just owned the building for
Speaker 1: that point being you know, and and yeah, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: but all these properties are certain properties, you know, because
Speaker 1: it's just what they own that you get to live on. Yeah, basically,
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, this is fucking bullshit, dude. You know,
Speaker 1: I never made it to my second appointment. I was
Speaker 1: like out of here. Local activist Regina Rage also spoke
Speaker 1: on the ongoing gentrification in Portland in specific relation to
Speaker 1: a certain red painted house on Mississippi Avenue that was
Speaker 1: owned by the same black family for more than fifty years.
Speaker 1: That house would become one of the main focal points
Speaker 1: in Portland protests. Yeah, Mississippi Street is located in a
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Portland that was previously an all black neighborhood
Speaker 1: and is at the very moment being gentrified and developed.
Speaker 1: And um, black families are being forced out into East
Speaker 1: Portland and Southeast Portland because of this gentrification. And so
Speaker 1: like for me specifically, UM, I like remember the lot
Speaker 1: that we're all occupying, and it's been empty my entire life.
Speaker 1: And now because of this pro tests, they want to
Speaker 1: develop it into something else. They're gonna donate it and
Speaker 1: then they're gonna put higher rises on top of it. Condos.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, the neighborhood looks vastly different from when
Speaker 1: I was growing up. I don't recognize it. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: driving and I just really don't recognize it. And UM,
Speaker 1: that's what makes it important to the community is this
Speaker 1: is one of the last black families in this neighborhood
Speaker 1: and they are doing everything they can to remain this neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And previously they were displaced from Vamport as well another
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Portland's that was destroyed. Um, and all of
Speaker 1: it is tied to white supremacy in what we're fighting against.
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Speaker 1: Here's Donovan Smith. The Red House, All Mississippi, has belonged
Speaker 1: to the Kinney family for over sixty five years. William
Speaker 1: and Pauline Kenney sold their house to their son, William Jr.
Speaker 1: And his wife in their financial Dominoes began when the
Speaker 1: owner's son got into a car accident on a suspended
Speaker 1: license ase of teen in two thousand two. The driver
Speaker 1: of the car died, the passenger was injured, and William
Speaker 1: the third was ultimately convicted of a felony. To cover
Speaker 1: legal fees, the Kenney family took out a balloon loan
Speaker 1: against the house. The son, William X. Nice, was since
Speaker 1: to five years first and doven old attention before being
Speaker 1: transitioned to the state prison at eighteen. Over time, due
Speaker 1: to interests and expenses piling up, as well as inadequate
Speaker 1: legal representation. The Kinney family home, now one of the
Speaker 1: last black owned homes on North Mississippi, ended up in
Speaker 1: foreclosure because the foreclosure process started prior to the pandemic.
Speaker 1: In September, or judge ruled that the eviction of the
Speaker 1: Kenneys could proceed despite the eviction moratorium. That month, the
Speaker 1: Moltnoma County Shars stormed into the Reddit House with rifles
Speaker 1: and evicted four members of the family. After the initial eviction,
Speaker 1: some Portlanders began gathering around the Red House to support
Speaker 1: the Kennies. They decried the forced eviction, especially amist economic
Speaker 1: crisis and the pandemic. Some even camped outside the property,
Speaker 1: and then on December five, the Portland Police Bureau and
Speaker 1: County Sheriffs arrived yet again to clear out residents, campers
Speaker 1: and render the home on Mississippi Avenue uninhabited Alsas are.
Speaker 1: An independent Portland journalists was on the ground when the
Speaker 1: tide turned against the police eviction team. Red House will
Speaker 1: where to be here? Um? You know, Red Houses is
Speaker 1: like such a wild story in so many ways. Um.
Speaker 1: That morning, oh my god, it was like not even
Speaker 1: nine thirty in the morning, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: holy sh it, Like everyone just went like full Paris
Speaker 1: on p PP. It was not even ten o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. I was like, what am I witnessing right now?
Speaker 1: This is wild? But I think that's fucking huge because
Speaker 1: you know, for almost two hundred days, we've seen people,
Speaker 1: we've you know, we've seen activists and protesters play nothing
Speaker 1: but defense. And even the defense is very like it's
Speaker 1: usually very childish and comical, you know, which is what's
Speaker 1: so fucking powerful. You know, they throw bouncy balls and
Speaker 1: water balloons filled with glitter at the cops, and the
Speaker 1: cops is reaction. It's just like, you know, it's absurd. UM.
Speaker 1: So seeing that kind and even even the morning of
Speaker 1: Red House, that was still defense, but it was a
Speaker 1: different kind of defense. It was hands on, aggressive, don't
Speaker 1: funk with us kind of defense. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: the first time I've seen anything like that. UM. And
Speaker 1: the fact that it was done for that reason, I
Speaker 1: think also just goes to show like what the community
Speaker 1: is about. UM. Seeing people care that much, it was incredible. Um.
Speaker 1: There were people literally fighting the cops, and I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the few, like literally fighting the cops,
Speaker 1: um to defend a family that was you know, they
Speaker 1: were trying to force out of their home. And um,
Speaker 1: I think you know and John red House. But like,
Speaker 1: even like leading up to Red House, there's been UM,
Speaker 1: I think there's been a lot more attention and a
Speaker 1: lot more care and focus on houselessness. Activist Regina Rage
Speaker 1: also witnessed the December raid. I was there at five.
Speaker 1: They called me at four, and I got there right
Speaker 1: after in the morning, Yes, in the morning. Um. Initially
Speaker 1: it was just me there. Um. And then I think
Speaker 1: by the time daylight hit and Coyn was there, there
Speaker 1: was maybe like fifty people, all like crunched in like
Speaker 1: this one tiny side yard that the only place we
Speaker 1: were allowed to be at. And at that point I
Speaker 1: noticed that white people were allowed to stand in that
Speaker 1: alley and I wasn't. Every time I stepped in the alleyway,
Speaker 1: they the police charged at me and threatened to arrest me.
Speaker 1: And um, I started yelling about how like they were
Speaker 1: blatantly allowing these white people to walk back and forth
Speaker 1: in this alleyway but I wasn't. And other people started yelling,
Speaker 1: and then soon we were all just standing in the
Speaker 1: street and the police we're rushing us. UM. At one
Speaker 1: point they mazed us all and UM forced us all
Speaker 1: back onto the side yard, and then we rushed again.
Speaker 1: A couple of people got arrested, and they at one
Speaker 1: point decided to pull back, and the sheriff's left first,
Speaker 1: and as they started to lead, I started running down
Speaker 1: the hill towards the cop cars, and everybody else followed
Speaker 1: and it escalated from there. Under a hell of water bottles, rocks,
Speaker 1: paint balloons, and other random projectiles, police retreated from the area.
Speaker 1: The couts initially arrived around five am and were completely
Speaker 1: gone by ten thirty. In the five hours they were present,
Speaker 1: at least seven people were arrested, and the hasty retreat
Speaker 1: several police cars were damaged, some by projectiles and one
Speaker 1: due to an officer crashing his own cruise there into
Speaker 1: another car. Regina describes what happened next. Um, the police
Speaker 1: finally left. UM, we're chased off whatever, um, and we
Speaker 1: just took down defense and started building them immediately. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the police had destroyed all of what we had built.
Speaker 1: That red house. It was like a weather proof um
Speaker 1: living space for those individuals who were staying there as
Speaker 1: well as like an event space. It was like very
Speaker 1: very very nice and UM they destroyed it and UM,
Speaker 1: so we took basically all the broken materials that they
Speaker 1: created for us and used those to build barricades and UM.
Speaker 1: When the barricades were up, we UM, we organized watch
Speaker 1: and UM began calling for supplies to be brought in.
Speaker 1: Like what happened. I do want to add what happened
Speaker 1: with that barricade was just like organic and organic response
Speaker 1: to being attacked by an enemy who literally does not
Speaker 1: give a funk about your life. Like Regina and I
Speaker 1: are both single mothers, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: they're out there gassing single mom at Lisa recounts the
Speaker 1: mood after the cops were pushed out of the area.
Speaker 1: Everyone was just kind of like on edge, like it
Speaker 1: was a huge celebration, but everybody was like that they're
Speaker 1: coming back and with force. They just got their asses
Speaker 1: handed to them. There's absolutely no way they're just gonna
Speaker 1: you know, they're just gonna leave everyone. Everyone was ready
Speaker 1: and everyone was waiting, and within minutes, you know, barricades
Speaker 1: started to go up. UM, but they weren't even then,
Speaker 1: like they weren't just like barricades. Um, were you at
Speaker 1: a peakaz or any of the like the really really
Speaker 1: barricaded knights and you know those nights were fucking sick.
Speaker 1: But a lot of barricades like like they were really
Speaker 1: cool and they were they served their purpose. But Redhouse,
Speaker 1: I'm talking like reinforced barricades and blockades like there were
Speaker 1: powered tools, there was concrete being laid out like you know,
Speaker 1: anything you could think of, um, And I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of that comes from practice and um,
Speaker 1: you know you learn what you do wrong by you know,
Speaker 1: testing things out. But I think the biggest change was,
Speaker 1: like it was the passionate Hours after the barricades went
Speaker 1: up narrowly re like, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler made a
Speaker 1: series of tweets decrying the eviction blockade and mischaracterizing the
Speaker 1: eviction defense as a so called autonomous zone. He said, quote,
Speaker 1: I'm authorizing the Portland Police to use all lawful means
Speaker 1: to end the illegal occupation on North Mississippi Avenue and
Speaker 1: to hold those violating our community laws accountable. There will
Speaker 1: be no autonomous zone in Portland, en quote. Nervous anticipation
Speaker 1: loomed over everyone the first night inside the barricades. Behind
Speaker 1: the multiple layers of reinforced barricades and impromptu call troops,
Speaker 1: people anxiously waited to see if the police would show
Speaker 1: up that first night, but slowly morning came and the
Speaker 1: coast was clear. Over the next few days, the infrastructure grew,
Speaker 1: bearricades grew more sophisticated. The Jankee caltrots made of scrooves
Speaker 1: and garden hoses were replaced with wealthy rebar The food
Speaker 1: donation area turned into a whole kitchen, and more and
Speaker 1: more tents were put up in the streets around the
Speaker 1: Red House. But as time went on and police didn't
Speaker 1: show familiar problems of roads regarding people acting security. Here's
Speaker 1: Regina and Um. I think that white people in this
Speaker 1: movement often come into it with all white savior complex
Speaker 1: and take up a lot of space and actually alienate
Speaker 1: the black people that this movement is about. And that's
Speaker 1: what happened during the barricade. There were a ton of
Speaker 1: white cis gendered people running around UM behaving crazily, UM,
Speaker 1: acting like cops. To be honest, Multiple people, some of
Speaker 1: them children, were physically assaulted, putting chokehol shot at with
Speaker 1: paintballs and kicked out of the Red House eviction defense
Speaker 1: area for not having permission to use paint by large
Speaker 1: men acting as self appointed security team. Problems with the
Speaker 1: protest security occurred inportantly before, the most notable being the
Speaker 1: truck driver assault, but smaller incidents took place throughout the
Speaker 1: summer and fall. Are and been running around in tactical
Speaker 1: gear trying to intimidate people into obedience and in some
Speaker 1: cases using physical force has the same fundamental issue. People
Speaker 1: criticqued police for the same problem of armed security. Essentially
Speaker 1: acting ass cop is part of what got a black
Speaker 1: teenager in Seattle's Capitol Hill. Occupied protests are child killed.
Speaker 1: One phrase spray painting near the Red House was killed
Speaker 1: the cop in your head, reflecting the protesters dissatisfaction with
Speaker 1: this dynamic. When a group of people are attacking children
Speaker 1: over graffiti, that's basically a mini police force, unaccountable armed
Speaker 1: men in tactical gear. Part of police abolition is can
Speaker 1: running policing dynamics found throughout your life, even at anti
Speaker 1: police protests. The kill the cop in your head graffiti
Speaker 1: at Red House was soon buffed and covered over by
Speaker 1: a fellow activists. Within the blockade. For most within the barricades,
Speaker 1: there wasn't much conflict to speak of. The time at
Speaker 1: the eviction blockade was mostly spent sitting around a campfire
Speaker 1: and watching over the fort to five fences for incoming police.
Speaker 1: For the neighbors who lived near the Red House, the
Speaker 1: biggest change was a slight inconvenience of parking. Many locals
Speaker 1: are very sympathetic to the cause, putting up signs and
Speaker 1: supported the Kenney's and Red House, and some even show
Speaker 1: support in other ways. People were actually very supportive UM.
Speaker 1: Neighbors were bringing us food and supplies, They were coming
Speaker 1: to hang out with us, they were bringing us coffee. UM.
Speaker 1: There were very few individuals in the neighborhood who actually
Speaker 1: felt threatened by any of us. But unfortunately those are
Speaker 1: the people who got to the media first. But I
Speaker 1: think that if we UM were able to talk to
Speaker 1: everyone who was involved, I think that they would say
Speaker 1: that they were proud of what we did. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: the ones who the few and far between ones who
Speaker 1: were like against it were they were just very loud,
Speaker 1: quite privileged people with time on their hands, you know,
Speaker 1: which often times, as we know, can have the ear
Speaker 1: of the powers that be. Lots of barricades went up
Speaker 1: in seven lockdown beeped up met Yet both locally and
Speaker 1: naturally couldn't resist the Red House story. What had been
Speaker 1: one families years long battle in the courts was now
Speaker 1: suddenly catching the headlines CNN and TMZ and YEP, even Fox.
Speaker 1: A local activist named Koa Crespan, who had been working
Speaker 1: with Regina to organize with the Kennies, launch should Go
Speaker 1: fund me. It set out to raise a quarter million
Speaker 1: dollars for the Kennies as a bargaining chip to get
Speaker 1: to developer Roman o Zarouga to the table. When national
Speaker 1: media began constantly reporting on the house, donation shot up,
Speaker 1: coming from all corners of the country as sympathetic viewers
Speaker 1: and readers and to stop the Kenneyes from losing their home.
Speaker 1: A slight twist came when the Oregon Public Broadcasting Guard
Speaker 1: op BE released an article revealing that the Kenney family
Speaker 1: in fact had a place to stay after the raid.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was another family member who yep on
Speaker 1: their own home. The headline read family at the center
Speaker 1: of the Red House protests old second Portlands home, detailing
Speaker 1: the fact that the home had been kept in the
Speaker 1: family for generations, disperst similar headlines locally and Nashally, they're
Speaker 1: trying to say the Kinney family lied about like not
Speaker 1: having anywhere to go, and when I get kicked out,
Speaker 1: I have gotten kicked out of places that I've been
Speaker 1: staying at and have had nowhere but my grandmother's house
Speaker 1: to go. And that's exactly what happened to the Kinney family.
Speaker 1: The police removed them from their home at gunpoint, and
Speaker 1: they had nowhere else but their grandma's house to go,
Speaker 1: so they went to say there and the media tried
Speaker 1: to say that they had a second house and as
Speaker 1: if an entire family with multiple generations all has to
Speaker 1: live in the same house, that is some racist ship
Speaker 1: was super racist to say that a black family has
Speaker 1: to all live in the same fucking house. All p
Speaker 1: B ran an apology articles shortly thereafter, apologizing for their
Speaker 1: mischaracterization of the Kinney's plate. Some support had dwindled, but
Speaker 1: through it all, support for the Red House grew, and
Speaker 1: so did the fundraiser. The go fund me raised well
Speaker 1: over the quarter million dollars and needed to secure the house.
Speaker 1: The developer was ready to approach the bargaining table. With
Speaker 1: the assistance of the city, Roman and the Kinneys began
Speaker 1: discussions about transferring ownership back into the hands of the family.
Speaker 1: This was a mark of celebration for some who had
Speaker 1: been occupying the house since September as conversations with Roman
Speaker 1: trucked on the city after days of threatening police force
Speaker 1: against the house, promised the barrel with back off if
Speaker 1: barricades came down. The Kidneys obliged, to the dismay of
Speaker 1: some activists, many white, who wanted to flex the strength
Speaker 1: of the people. But for Regina, she says, the occupation
Speaker 1: was never about the walls. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: people who we didn't even know, who had never been
Speaker 1: to the Red House, who had opinions on what we
Speaker 1: should have done and like who we are now because
Speaker 1: we didn't keep those barricades up. Um, But it was
Speaker 1: never about the barricades. It was, it is and will
Speaker 1: always be about what is best for the Kidney family
Speaker 1: and what they want. And um we did lose like
Speaker 1: support slowly and slowly after the barricades UM came down.
Speaker 1: People stopped coming and UM their individuals living at the
Speaker 1: Red House right now who still need support from this
Speaker 1: community and are not getting it because the cops aren't
Speaker 1: an imminent fat anymore. At the moment, it does seem
Speaker 1: the eviction blockade was successful in applying enough pressure to
Speaker 1: open up options for the Kinneys to keep their home.
Speaker 1: Holding down a few blocks of a neighborhood while raising
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of dollars may not be a perfectly
Speaker 1: replicable strategy, but it does show the type of things
Speaker 1: that can happen when community comes together to stand up
Speaker 1: against a perceived injustice. Here's Coy on the potential impact
Speaker 1: of the Red House story in the future. And I
Speaker 1: hope it happens all around the country, and I hope
Speaker 1: people are inspired by it and that they go speaking
Speaker 1: out evictions to do the ship with than to lift
Speaker 1: up this work. Um, this isn't like the first ever
Speaker 1: time a neighborhood has risen up to defend an eviction.
Speaker 1: This would happen even as far back as the thirties.
Speaker 1: Communities would come together to fight um, the police when
Speaker 1: they came to drag people out of their homes. Right,
Speaker 1: I think like we've all have I don't know, we've
Speaker 1: probably all seen that pick of like it's from like
Speaker 1: the thirties, Like range of reference where it's like neighborhood
Speaker 1: men and they're all white, like on top of a
Speaker 1: sheriff stopping them from evicting a widow, you know, like
Speaker 1: a handful of people continue to occupy the Red House.
Speaker 1: Negotiations have continued since December, but all parties have been
Speaker 1: pretty tight looked about the status of the talks up
Speaker 1: until now. Red Houses not marked the end of protests
Speaker 1: in Portland's More than anything, it's galvanized a large amount
Speaker 1: of mutual aid directed around evictions and houselessness. During the
Speaker 1: same period, as Red House activists keeping multi week watch
Speaker 1: over a houseless encampment at a local park that was
Speaker 1: under threat of sweep by the city. As winner is
Speaker 1: set in the Mayor's support to roll back eviction protections
Speaker 1: as well as protections against camp suites. Facing freezing temperatures
Speaker 1: and the mounting pandemic, activists are mobilized to get gear
Speaker 1: and supplies, as well as helping with defense work to
Speaker 1: prevent more evictions and displacement. Activists argue that sweeps and
Speaker 1: evictions are unconscionable during a pandemic, and that money funding
Speaker 1: the evictions could be used to make sure that people
Speaker 1: are housed. Dmitria Hester speaks about the continuing mutual aid. No,
Speaker 1: I am I. It hasn't surprised me because our community
Speaker 1: know us the need. They know us the need, so
Speaker 1: they started all this group so that that we can
Speaker 1: help the need in our community. I mean, people are
Speaker 1: still getting evicted, They're still not being able to pay
Speaker 1: their bills, They're still not and food from our government.
Speaker 1: So we have to depend on each other to give
Speaker 1: us what we need, you know, to be successful, to
Speaker 1: keep going on, because I don't see a future of
Speaker 1: our government giving us or doing anything to help us.
Speaker 1: So we still have to continue this fight. Plus we're
Speaker 1: pushing it to the to the White House. I was
Speaker 1: there when um when Biden one, we marched our march
Speaker 1: with the Black Panthers to the White House, saying to
Speaker 1: for eight tell the tell the world who we hate,
Speaker 1: the Republicans, the Democrats, the whole damn bunch. Another ongoing
Speaker 1: movie in that this game renewed interests in the summer protests,
Speaker 1: the Patrick Kim and marches that happened twice a week.
Speaker 1: Leeth Winston has been marching the streets of Portland's at
Speaker 1: times alone, in the search for justice for her son
Speaker 1: Patrick Kimmons. For years, Leith has pleaded for local officials
Speaker 1: to reopen his case. Sator he was shot and killed
Speaker 1: by Portland police in lateen. The calls were matt with
Speaker 1: little action. That was until the George Floyd uprisings. These
Speaker 1: protests gave rise to an immended version of the slogan
Speaker 1: black Lives Matter, with many beginning to proclaim that all
Speaker 1: black lives matter. While this phrase was created and part
Speaker 1: to give more visibility to black LGBTQ people were experiencing
Speaker 1: some of the worst harms in the community, it also
Speaker 1: grew to buck at the idea that those worth honoring
Speaker 1: or remembering need to somehow be perfect victims, black and
Speaker 1: unarmed with no criminal background. When news of Kiman's case broke,
Speaker 1: details were scammed he gotten into a confrontation with two men,
Speaker 1: shooting and wounding both of them. Police showed up shortly thereafter,
Speaker 1: and he was shot and killed. It was later revealed
Speaker 1: by the autopsy that of the twelve bullets police fired
Speaker 1: at twenty seven year old Kiman and I entered his body.
Speaker 1: It also showed that some of those shots had gone
Speaker 1: through his back. After a judge ruled out there was
Speaker 1: no wrong doing by the police. The Barreau released footage
Speaker 1: of the early morning standoff. Organizer Jedi Leave explains the
Speaker 1: scene here basically, like there was like a minor like
Speaker 1: argument or scuffle or whatever, and Patrick started running, and um,
Speaker 1: he didn't know that he was running towards the police,
Speaker 1: but he was running towards the police and then went
Speaker 1: to turn into like in between some cars, and the
Speaker 1: cops started shooting him and all the shots went into
Speaker 1: his back. So, um, yeah, they shot him in the
Speaker 1: back and killed him. And uh, the cops were not charged.
Speaker 1: It was basically rule justifiable homicide and um it wasn't though,
Speaker 1: because they shot him in his back. So during the trial,
Speaker 1: the rookie cop who fired the fatal shots described himself
Speaker 1: as doing what he was taught to neutralize the threat.
Speaker 1: It was enough to vindicate him in the courts, but
Speaker 1: not in eyes Slita. She's been leading regular marches throughout
Speaker 1: the city since, sometimes with the crowd, other time it
Speaker 1: was just alone with a megaphone to manny for the
Speaker 1: case to be reopened. Once the Portland protests began, her
Speaker 1: fight gained new light. Organizers like Jedi have helped grow
Speaker 1: the fleet of protesters marching alongside Kim AND's mother. He
Speaker 1: talks about his involvement in the marches here. She did
Speaker 1: it for well over a year with virtually no help,
Speaker 1: um except for one person named Jay and he still
Speaker 1: comes to this very day like he's the only person
Speaker 1: that actually stuck with her throughout this entire time. But
Speaker 1: um so, she's basically just trying to spread awareness and
Speaker 1: like talk to Ted Wheeler, it worked. An emotional face
Speaker 1: to face between her and the mayor was finally scheduled.
Speaker 1: Ted Wheeler was super sad and was like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I haven't done more about this. I'm really really sorry.
Speaker 1: He told her that she's like the strongest speaker, like
Speaker 1: one of the strongest speakers she's he's ever seen, and
Speaker 1: he was brought to tears. Snigger was literally crying in
Speaker 1: the Mayor's office. Um so that was great. And what
Speaker 1: she's trying to what basically, we're just continuing to put
Speaker 1: the pressure on, uh, the police officers when we go
Speaker 1: out and um really, we just want this the next
Speaker 1: meeting to to come up because the next meeting they're
Speaker 1: gonna sit down and actually review the tapes together. So
Speaker 1: um that is what's being done right now, um and
Speaker 1: just keeping our fingers crossed. That happened sooner, sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Still the case has a mem reopened. Leatha continues to
Speaker 1: march around the city demanding justice for our son, effectually
Speaker 1: known as pat Pat. The marches have continued with increased
Speaker 1: numbers through all the fall and into winter. During the autumn,
Speaker 1: face with increased attacks from far right extremists who would
Speaker 1: attack Leatha's marches with signs and flags declaring that they
Speaker 1: backed the Blue. Organizers and activists began using the slogan
Speaker 1: back the Black for their weekly protests. That continued hate
Speaker 1: and aggression that these peaceful marches have seen reflected the
Speaker 1: growing vitriol that was coming from the far right as
Speaker 1: we moved into the election, and finally, the January violence
Speaker 1: that rocked the nation. In Washington, d C. On January six,
Speaker 1: thousands of Trump supporters rushed to Capitol Building and a
Speaker 1: last ditch attempt to stop the certification of the presidential
Speaker 1: election results. The violent attempt to take over forced Congress
Speaker 1: to evacuate, left five dead, including two police officers, and
Speaker 1: drew the ties between law enforcement, Republican Congress people, and
Speaker 1: far right militants to the forefront of national awareness. In December,
Speaker 1: a stop to Steal rally in Salem, Oregon had similarly
Speaker 1: breached the state capital, though the group hadn't reached the
Speaker 1: chambers of Legislature. CCTV footage later showed that the breach
Speaker 1: in Salem began with the Republican Legislature opening the doors
Speaker 1: to admit the mob. On the sixth January, a small
Speaker 1: far right group assembled again and clash with left wing demonstrators.
Speaker 1: The group again included both mainstream Republican politician and extremist figures,
Speaker 1: including one of the white supremacists convicted in the nine
Speaker 1: murder of Ethiopian grad student Mulla get Us. A raw
Speaker 1: in Portland. Compared to the nation's capital, the Salem rally
Speaker 1: was limited. No major breaches of the capital in Salem occurred.
Speaker 1: By three pm, the crowded dispersed. Despite the shakeup, Biden
Speaker 1: assumed office just over a week later. On his first
Speaker 1: day in office, Biden signed executive order halting ice deportations
Speaker 1: for a hundred days as the administration attempted to overhaul
Speaker 1: many of Trump's deportation policies. That same day, protesters in
Speaker 1: Portland gathered at the local ICE headquarters. They didn't want
Speaker 1: to temporate into de deportations. They wanted a complete disbanding
Speaker 1: of the nine eleven era agency, who split up scores
Speaker 1: of families, held small children in cages, and acted in
Speaker 1: strong concert with the FBI since its inception. This night
Speaker 1: ended with sick suarrests and without the stating of tear gas.
Speaker 1: Days later, another it was a different story as Feds
Speaker 1: and right gear matt protesters with cuffs, force and classet gas.
Speaker 1: The headquarters had, however, become a fixture in the protests,
Speaker 1: with federal agents regularly deploints c S gas against him.
Speaker 1: But situated next the facility was a school k through
Speaker 1: a public charter. Cottonwood School of Civics and Science School
Speaker 1: regularly was engulfed in tear gas. Dr Juni per seminists
Speaker 1: immediately sprung into action, collecting soil samples across the school
Speaker 1: campus and Coldness playground to assess its impacts. While that
Speaker 1: research continues, Cottonwood didn't wait for their answer. They wanted
Speaker 1: an immediate into the use of tear gas by federal agents.
Speaker 1: Now the agency hasn't issued any formal response, but It's
Speaker 1: almost certain that activists will continue atturning to the building
Speaker 1: and call for an end to ICE as weeks roll
Speaker 1: along with four years of Biden and Harris at the Helm.
Speaker 1: Their election was a welcome reprieve from Trump's heavy handed
Speaker 1: brand of racist politics, but not an into the fire
Speaker 1: against systems of oppression. The simultaneous re election of Mayor
Speaker 1: Tch Wheeler was a mark of dread for many of
Speaker 1: who have been on the ground. He eaked out a win,
Speaker 1: earning more boats and on ballot challengers Sarah i annerone,
Speaker 1: but less than her in total writings, many which are
Speaker 1: presumed to have went to Don't Shoot Portland founder Torressea Raeford,
Speaker 1: who community members launched a writing campaign for after the
Speaker 1: longtime BLM leader lost her bid for Portland's top seat
Speaker 1: in the primaries. The results revealed a divide even in
Speaker 1: Portland politics. Despite the split, it also marked the most racially,
Speaker 1: gender and sexually diverse council in the city's history. The
Speaker 1: new council assumed office cs January. Negotiations began between the
Speaker 1: city and police union that same month, and this time,
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, the public got a glinse
Speaker 1: behind the curtain after monster protests that put their Barrel
Speaker 1: on headlines across the world. All eyes were on these
Speaker 1: powerful van cards of the profession. In the negotiations, tensions
Speaker 1: remained high as union heads railed against new measures of oversight, discipline,
Speaker 1: and limits on overtime expenditures. While the Barrel had said
Speaker 1: they want racial and social justice changes in the police force,
Speaker 1: many of the proposed changes have been met with critique
Speaker 1: and resistance. Their current contract with the city expired June
Speaker 1: this year. As negotiations continue, it remains to be seeing
Speaker 1: what changes will come between the Barrel and the city.
Speaker 1: The past year has been marked by a number of
Speaker 1: police involved violence, despite their growing calls for justice. In Vancouver, Washington,
Speaker 1: a bridge away from Portland, two young black men, Kevin
Speaker 1: Peterson Jr. And Genoa Davis, have been killed by officers
Speaker 1: within just a couple of months of each other. And
Speaker 1: the college town of Eugene, Oregon, Wi Sheen Shariff was
Speaker 1: shot after police responded to an alleged domestic violence report.
Speaker 1: Sharif did survive. Meanwhile, I missed the back drop of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. The streets of Portland are seeing dirty year
Speaker 1: highs and gun violence. Economic downturn is leaving the city
Speaker 1: on edge. White supremacists of all stripes have been emboldened.
Speaker 1: All cries for justice for black lives have reached feverish
Speaker 1: new highs. The international cameras are gone now. Protests continue,
Speaker 1: but in marketly smaller numbers. That nine minute feuse of
Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder had lit a fire under the country.
Speaker 1: You know what surface was a renewed urgency to transform
Speaker 1: a system that has devalued black lives, not as an exception,
Speaker 1: but a fundamental tool and tradition of the society. As
Speaker 1: the streets have quieted, the urgency for chain still remains
Speaker 1: for those that have been a part of these uprisings.
Speaker 1: As the resistance begins to take a new face, the
Speaker 1: question remains, what's next. I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: I don't think people are just gonna get tired and
Speaker 1: go away. This is like people have had enough of
Speaker 1: this police brutality, and in the racism that you know
Speaker 1: influences police brutality. I don't see it going away. I
Speaker 1: mean I see it heaving and flowing, like you know,
Speaker 1: just it's almost natural for any energy to do that.
Speaker 1: So we go you know, we go up with big
Speaker 1: turnouts and go down with low turnouts, are up with
Speaker 1: really good morale, and then you know, down in the
Speaker 1: dumps later. It's just so I think it's going to
Speaker 1: keep following that some kind of evan flow of change.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to go away. I
Speaker 1: don't see how would you go away when the police
Speaker 1: are continuing to kill unarmed black people or continue their
Speaker 1: continuing to do it. I think it's really telling that,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, not one single Portland police
Speaker 1: after has been um disciplined for their actions. And they
Speaker 1: have done some extremely terrible things that should be disciplined,
Speaker 1: things that go against their training, things that go against
Speaker 1: their own policies and procedures, and these things are caught
Speaker 1: on video, so there's no excuse at all for why
Speaker 1: they have not been disciplined. People just like become the changes,
Speaker 1: become the one that like the way just pushed out
Speaker 1: into the big c of water, BIGFC and and that's
Speaker 1: what it is. You know. I think, like I look
Speaker 1: at Ferguson, uh so that movement you know, kind of
Speaker 1: faded away or whatever. This just happened. I can't Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, and this kins election. They just elected one
Speaker 1: of the activists from their Congress. So that's like the
Speaker 1: movement like says what that's like last change, and the
Speaker 1: people there has been well radicalized to do so it's life.
Speaker 1: Though the movement that's tied to the summer may stayed away.
Speaker 1: It's like unless they're going to, you know, remove everybody
Speaker 1: and all of our experiences and all of our renewed
Speaker 1: perspectives on life, and you can't really like destroy movement
Speaker 1: and all natural I think the it's interesting there there's
Speaker 1: like two different The morale of the city as a
Speaker 1: whole is very like in Limbo, I feel like often times,
Speaker 1: but because it's like ultimately people who are protesting are
Speaker 1: ultimately doing it for the right reasons, and we get
Speaker 1: like little glimmers of like hope. But then like just
Speaker 1: today I learned the three black people that were killed
Speaker 1: in the last week throughout the United States by police unarmed,
Speaker 1: so and then you hear ship like that, and then
Speaker 1: it it just makes you wonder, like why are we
Speaker 1: even continuing to do this, Like why even keep fighting?
Speaker 1: This just keeps happening. But I think that um, right
Speaker 1: now we live in this I feel like, right now
Speaker 1: we live in this time of questions where we have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions without answers, But there are years
Speaker 1: that asked questions and there are years that answer them.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're in a in a year right
Speaker 1: now where we're gonna get a lot of answers, and
Speaker 1: that's okay. I feel like we need to be okay
Speaker 1: with like sitting in the questions and going through like
Speaker 1: the mud and going through the puddles, so to speak,
Speaker 1: in order to get to where we want to go.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time because the system has taken years
Speaker 1: to UM to build into what it is right now,
Speaker 1: and so it's just gonna take time. So I think
Speaker 1: the morale of the city limbos because you have a
Speaker 1: bunch of you know, the white neo liberals who just
Speaker 1: want to go back to normal. But normal was killing us,
Speaker 1: so we're not going to do that. And then you
Speaker 1: have our side, which is like we're feeling we're getting
Speaker 1: pulled in all kinds of directions, We're feeling inspiration, and
Speaker 1: then we're feeling discouragement because we keep seeing the same
Speaker 1: ship happen. But ultimately, UM mutual aid really is the
Speaker 1: way of the future, and I think that these mutual
Speaker 1: aid groups and networks that were forming right now are
Speaker 1: really the genesis of what it's going to look like
Speaker 1: for humanity to live in a world without dependence on
Speaker 1: the state and without needing or feeling like we the
Speaker 1: police are going to keep us safe when they've proven
Speaker 1: so many times that we don't. UM. So I personally
Speaker 1: am excited about the future because I'm witnessing like the yeah,
Speaker 1: really just the genesis of what of the world that
Speaker 1: I would like to live in. UM. But obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the whole two steps forward, one step back thing
Speaker 1: that we that we have to do with as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to how things are going. I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping that more people can really open their eyes
Speaker 1: to UM how they're how being complicit to the system
Speaker 1: is literally murdering people they look like me and Donovan,
Speaker 1: and that we need to stop it. There's too many
Speaker 1: people who are still sleeping UM. That's a big reason
Speaker 1: why I think we were doing that thing at our
Speaker 1: CJ was to wake up this side of this the
Speaker 1: river like march through the neighborhoods, wake people up, let
Speaker 1: them know that we're here. There's a ton of us,
Speaker 1: and that they need to be on our side because ultimately,
Speaker 1: when when we are free, when black people are free,
Speaker 1: everybody is going to be free, because black liberation is
Speaker 1: human liberation at the end of the day. So if
Speaker 1: we can really focus on uplifting our most marginalized and
Speaker 1: most oppressed communities and we're uplifting everybody at the same time,
Speaker 1: and the quicker that more people really understand that and
Speaker 1: are inspired enough to actually take action and be a
Speaker 1: part of the movement, um, the better. Just um yeah, um,
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