Occupy Portland – Page 2 – Mental Health PDX

Insider view: Occupy Portland’s daily struggle with mental illness

November 4, 2011

By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner Nat Holder, of Occupy Portland’s Safety Team, has a request. “What we’d like,” said Holder, “is for someone to come onsite and do training” to help them deal with problems of mental health and addiction. Holder is one of the points of contact for the team, which is […]

‘Occupy’ camps provide food, shelter for homeless

October 23, 2011

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From the Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2011 When Occupy Wall Street protesters took over two parks in Portland’s soggy downtown, they pitched 300 tents and offered free food, medical care and shelter to anyone. They weren’t just building, like so many of their brethren across the nation, a community to protest what they see […]