At 4:30 a.m. on November 14th, a group of anarchists broke out the windows of the Umpqua Bank at NE 18th and Alberta. Umpqua Bank tries to sell itself as "green" and a "community" bank, and we wanted to shatter that illusion.
Umpqua Bank has been known for financing timber giants all over Oregon that are responsible for the destruction of our precious temperate rainforests, and with them the possibility of a livable future.
Alberta Street has been incredibly gentrified in recent years, and Umpqua Bank is a big part of that. Forcing People of Color out of one of the few neighborhoods they were historically allowed to live in is racism, plain and simple.
We don't care that Umpqua Bank is small or local - we don't want a smaller, more local capitalism, we want a total destruction of the system that keeps us miserable.
We smashed out the windows in solidarity with everyone on the receiving end of the daily violence of the Portland Police, and with comrades who have been fucked over by the liberals/wannabe cops at Occupy Portland. You too can act on your desires!
Love and solidarity,
Some angry proles
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this is one of the better communiques i've read in a while. also, yeah pdx!
agree - putting things in context. some comments from regular everyday people, when they read the communique, said "for once i agree with the anarchists"... not the oregonian but one of the other ones. KGW maybe
I have been considering pulling my (tiny) account from Umpqua, but I have never been able to find any documentation of them actually funding clearcutting etc. Would also be interested in knowing more about how they contributed to the gentrification of alberta street.
Any documentation/links/etc would be much appreciated, and if they ARE funding these @#$ who clearcut and spray me with herbicides, I'll pull my money right the f out.