Some of you may remember that I got injured by the LRAD at the East Precinct the night of the 6th when it went off too close to me and at possibly too high a volume. Combine this with other accessibility concerns that I have had as a disabled member of the press and the […]
Over the last few month and a half (it feels like a year by this point), I’ve been approached by a number of people concerning the concept of citizen/independent journalists and press passes. A large part of it is undoubtedly the fact that I actually produce press passes for independent journalists (shameless plug here for more […]
I’ve been incredibly busy as of late, and most of my focus has been on the Twitter and live stream side of things, including some research projects, but I wanted to take a moment to share some good news. Shortly after the Portland protests started, a class action case, Don’t Shoot PDX v City of […]
by Heather-Lynne Van Wilde So, today’s been a bit of a wild day. Last night the police unilaterally decided that when they declare a protest an ‘unlawful gathering’ and close down miles of downtown, that the press is not allowed inside. Of course, if press did leave, there would be essentially zero oversight of any police […]
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” ― Lysander Spooner So, this has been a few days in coming, but I wanted to get some other groundwork laid down before I started trying to put this together. It may be a work in progress page, and I may move […]
I still need to work on getting some of the old stuff transferred from the old site to the new site, but I wanted to at least point out why I’m willing to put myself into harms way to document the police recently. I put a video up on YouTube that took a few minutes […]