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Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
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It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10
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In 1977 when anti-apartheid protesters determined that the federal government wasn't budging on its stance on apartheid in South Africa, they got a bunch of businesses and investors to end their involvement with the apartheid state (which had a major impact on getting the apartheid system dismantled). Due to the fact that there are anti-BDS laws specifically for Israel, it's not possible to take this approach this time, so the only way to get businesses who invest in Israel to stop funneling money over there is to stop sources of income (or block the entrance of major contributors like they did for Disneyland). It's not that protesters think they'll get Biden to change his mind, it's that protesters want to hurt the bottom line of all companies until something changes. Since the US gov listens to corporations way more than civilians, this is about the only way to do it without violence.
About your sentence on it needing to be a much larger concerted effort with air travel, I'd say that it really doesn't. If companies notice that they suddenly won't be making as much money as they did the previous quarter (even if they're still making tons of money), they freak out.
Let me know when this kind of protesting has an effect. What source does pdx airport have for access to any of these peoples bottom lines? I’m not against protesting by any means, but this is a little like people telling me to recycle as if that can even remotely offset what corporations are doing to the environment (I do recycle for the record). That change needs to be taken to the right place to be enacted against the right people. This protest probably only served to inconvenience a bunch of random citizens.
Assuming people from the greater Portland area fly into and out of PDX, here's some places headquartered in the area that could be affected by protests at the airport:
So while, yes, the protests definitely inconvenienced random citizens, it has a pretty good chance of also affecting these companies as well.