#portland state university library

[archivlibrarianist]

There is damage in the library, but it's not to the books or special collections. Occupiers even helped the university's archivist/special collections librarian attend to some of the special collections, so that they'd be safe.

Concerning special collections:

"The next morning [after the initial April 29 occupation of the library, April 30, special collections librarian and archivist Cris] Paschild explained who she was to protesters guarding the entrance to the library. They eventually let her in and together they worked to clear out and secure the library’s special collections.

"'They actually were really receptive and seemed to hear what I was saying and what my concerns were,' Paschild told OPB. 'I appreciated that.'"

Concerning damage to the building versus to the library collection:

"...But [PSU Operations Assistant Director Cary] Morris, who has been overseeing parts of the cleanup since Friday, noticed the library’s books were largely undisturbed.

"'The book stacks seem pretty untouched,' Morris said. 'There was a lot of graffiti and signage that said, "leave the books alone" or "don’t touch the books."'

"The university’s Dark Horse Comics collection, which had originally been reported as missing or stolen, also appeared to be intact."

I've previously posted a timeline on this topic; this article is also linked there.

#portland state university #Portland State University Library #Millar Library #pro Palestinian protests #student occupations #israel hamas war #israel hamas conflict #American students #academic libraries #special collections #given how the occupation of the library has taken up a lot of ink this is important to consider #librarians #library workers #archivists

[willywaldo]

This makes my blood boil. You have a right to protest but you don't have the right to vandalize a library.

#Portland state university library #vandalism #protests

[radicalgraff]

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

#graffiti #graff #dune #free Palestine

[eretzyisrael]

by Mary Chastain

Columbia University is in shambles.

How much longer until other universities fall? Let’s check in on them.

Right now I have UCLA, Northwestern, Portland State, NYU, University of Washington, Penn State, UNC, and CUNY.

UCLA

A parent released audio of a phone call with the UCLA Police Department.

@UCLA gave permission to release this audio of her phone call with @UCLAPD as they describe the school's directive to allow protestors to restrict the movement of Jewish students. "Are the protestors allowed to block students who are paying tuition from classes? No, but unfortunately, they have taken over that area." "We've received a directive not to intervene" "So you're allowing the protestors to block the Jewish students?" "I'm not allowing it... the school is. Yes, the school is saying that they will not be removed at this time."

The school doesn’t care that these people block Jewish students from classes.

We have videos of these people blocking Jews from campus and the library. We have videos of these people assaulting Jews.

Lots of videos of campus anti-Jewish insanity here at Legal Insurrection.

#ucla #columbia university #northwestern university #portland state #nyu #university of washington #penn state #unc #cuny

[carapaced]

Portland State University’s Pro Palestine protest encampment in the library has been declared unlawful and is in imminent danger of police action. Use this script to email Ann Cudd and PSU administration to let them know you do not support the police presence on campus.

#protest #free Palestine #pro palestine #campus protests #portlandstate #Portland #portland state university #Palestine protests #Gaza #university protests #new #current events #social justice #free gaza

[northernreads]

Girl did you know what the protesters did to Portland State University Library? They completely trashed the library, devastating the collection, and ruining the building. You know who’s going to have to clean that up, and who is going to decide what books to keep and throw out?

I’m not against the protesters, but destroying your library like that? I can’t support

From the second article from the Librarian/archivist that went to the library during the occupation of the building and worked with protesters to keep the collection safe:

"One bit of misinformation that Paschild would like to correct: The Dark Horse collection wasn’t stolen during the occupation.

There are two copies of all the Dark Horse materials: an archival one and a public one that patrons can read. Before the protest, library staff had moved the public collection but left the sign above empty shelves. Paschild suspects someone saw photos of the shelves and assumed the comics had been stolen.

To the contrary, “a lot of people seem to have been reading them,” Paschild says.

Paschild says she’s been distressed by how people are talking about the library and the damage.

“The library is getting talked about but not talked with,” Paschild says. “You have people who want to use this to vilify all protesters..."

I know who would have to go through the collection if it was damaged. And the person in charge of that department says the collection is fine. As for the space, it will open in the fall and in the meantime the public library is available.

It's important to do your research as there is a lot of disinformation being put out there.

#anons #mine #portland university library #i've joined other alum to support the protests going on at my old uni #free free palestine

[canyonroads]

Portland State University just announced their second day of campus closure due to students occupying Millar Library. They have declared it a Solidarity Encampment for Palestine. Police drones were circling the Library last night and cops are expected to respond sometime today. PSU is desperately trying to keep this under wraps and silence reporting.

#palestine #solidarity encampment #university protests #edited to add a better article. less biased sounding

[laindarko100]

Solidarity with the Portland State University student protests

For months, we at PSU have been calling for our school to cut ties with Boeing, Intel, and other companies that support genocidal Israel. We, the students, do not want to receive blood money from a glorified weapons dealer. We do not want internship partnerships with them. We want the school to replace those working relationships with companies that match our values. We want them, as an institution, to call for a ceasefire and publicly stand in solidarity with Palestine. PSU has extensive anti-racist & diversity policy - we really just want them to put their money where their mouth is. It's frankly not a huge ask. Yet the Board of Trustees & Pres. Ann Cudd were silent on the matter... Until the encampments on the park blocks late last week.

Here's the thing. I've been to a peaceful free Palestine march in Portland that must have had hundreds of attendees. Nobody reported on it, nobody in government responded to it. I joined students to peacefully disrupt a finance meeting at PSU to voice concerns about Boeing & Intel. No reporting from the media, no response from PSU. They moved the meeting to Zoom before half of us even arrived for "safety reasons" - bear in mind, this was in response to a couple of students merely speaking during the first portion of the meeting to list their concerns. They did not address our concerns at all, they simply found a way to ignore us.

It's only after the encampments, only after the occupation of the library, the vandalism and trespassing, that the media is reporting, and that Pres. Ann Cudd is pausing relations with Boeing and addressing concerns (even if her responses are sub par and her promises are empty). The powers that be love to tout peaceful protest because they can easily ignore peaceful protest. And let me be clear: the occupations and encampments are not violent. They are breaking the law but that does not immediately mean they are making an unsafe environment - quite the contrary, they were taking care of each other, and making the library welcome to students who needed it for study, etc. A broken window and some graffiti - that's why the police have shown up in riot gear? Yeah, right. This isn't about safety. This is about control, it's about violently forcing the students into complacency.

I am proud of PSU's student activists and the occupants of the library. I support them and stand in solidarity with them. I admire them, and hope that I may one day be able to develop in myself the bravery they have displayed this week.

Much love. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#free palestine #free gaza #portland state university

[catdotjpeg]

Scenes posted by US journalists and media outlets on X show the local police in the US state of Oregon surrounding and beginning to evacuate a library on the campus of Portland State University [at 7:23 AM PDT]. Students had occupied the building on Monday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Earlier today, police told the students inside to leave or face arrest.

-- "Portland police begin clearing student-occupied campus building" by Mersiha Gadzo and Maziar Motamedi for Al Jazeera, 2 May 2024 18:00 GMT

Cops in riot gear were still on campus as of 11:42 AM PDT, according to Portland State's MEChA chapter.

#palestine #usa #oregon #pacific northwest #multnomah county #portland #youth activism

[pearwaldorf]

cw: the state of things, Gaza protests, respectability politics

Like many college campuses, there is an encampment of pro-Palestine students at Portland State University, my undergraduate institution. They were occupying the library, but the police have been clearing them out since this morning. I am heartened that many people have turned out to voice their disapproval of this action.

Because college students are fucking nerds*, somebody painted "May thy riot gear chip and shatter" on a wall in the library. And then this fucking square had the gall to be like "B-but the property damage!"

I want to make very clear this fuckface does not represent most of the profession. Nobody I went to library school with would give a shit about property damage in the face of something as important as protesting an ongoing genocide. Hell, most of them would be joining the students.

Librarianship is, at its heart, a radical profession. It involves creating space for people who might not otherwise have it. There are very few places where you can just go and hang around for hours without paying. Libraries are places that provide resources (not just books!) to populations that would not otherwise have access to them. People think of libraries as places to turn for help of all kinds, to the point where some library systems have hired social workers.

A library is not just the four walls and the media contained within. It is also the community it supports and nurtures. And it chaps my ass there are librarians out there who seem to have forgotten that.

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* I remember attending a protest decades ago (about the second Iraq war maybe?) and seeing "The spice must flow!" chalked on the ground. The more things change etc etc.

#cranky post #somebody is wrong on the internet

[archivlibrarianist]

Portland State University Library Occupation: 4/29/2024 - 5/2/2024

As of today (5/7/2024), the Library is still closed. Link: Portland State University Library Closure FAQ.

UPDATED 5/10/2024: Cleanup is underway; the book collection is largely unscathed, the special collections are intact and also unscathed. The damaged seems restricted to walls, furniture, and equipment like computers.

From what I've gathered from news articles, here's a timeline. As I learn more, incorrect details on this timeline will be struck out and new ones will be added.

4/25/2024 - 4/28/2024: Pro-Palestinian protestors are pushed out of a protest in the South Park Blocks area of Portland and onto a portico in Millar Library at Portland State University, with the university president's permission.

Also 4/25/2024 - 4/28/2024: Under pressure, Portland State University President Ann Cudd agrees that PSU should "reexamine its philanthropic relationship" with Boeing, a corporation with ties to the Israeli Air Force

4/29/2024: After a peaceful nearby rally in support of Palestine and an an end to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, protestors entered university's library and began to occupy it. Barricades are built and graffiti is made on the library's walls.

4/30/2024: PSU campus closed; exactly when is not clear.

5/1/2024: University President Cudd continues demands for protestors to leave the library, and also threatens a police response to remove protestors.

5/2/2024: PSU reports that negotiations between the President's office and protestors have "failed" and promises that students who leave the occupied library by 1:30am on Thursday, May 3 will not be suspended or expelled. Representatives of protestors respond that the President and her office were not negotiating in good faith, demanding the names and ID numbers of the student protestors.

5/3/2024: At 6:00am, police begin clearing the University library of protestors; they are finished by about 10:00am.

5/3/2024 - : Damage assessment and repair of Library and library materials is underway.

5/7/2024 (added 5/10/2024): OPB.com reports that, as University crews clean up the mess, the book collections, including the special collections, were not damage. Damage was limited to walls, furniture, and equipment like computers. Special collections, like the Dark Horse comics collection, previously thought to be missing, were found to be untouched.

#portland state university #portland state university library #millar library #academic libraries #American libraries #American students #pro palestinian protesters #student occupations

[didi023]

"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

#graffiti #graff #dune #free Palestine

[tieflingkisser]

Portland Police Probe Claims by "Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade" Over Arson Attack That Torched 17 Vehicles

Portland police have heightened their investigation following a social media post that took credit for the arson attack last week, which left 17 of their vehicles charred. Initially reported as 15, this number has been adjusted as authorities dig deeper into the incident, The Oregonian reports. The purported culprits, identifying themselves as "Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade," boasted to have sliced through security measures at the Police Bureau's training facility before setting the property ablaze, ostensibly in anticipation of the law enforcement's arrival at Portland State University's library.

#oregon #usa #news #free palestine

[lonestarbattleship]

USS OREGON (BB-3) on the Wilmette River, Portland, Oregon. She was on loan to the State of Oregon from the Navy, for use as a memorial and museum.

Note: in the bottom photo, the Freighter SS West Jena is docked and a biplane is flying overhead.

Date: early July 1925.

University of Oregon Library: PH037_b138_SH00399, PH037_b138_SH00398

#USS Oregon (BB-3) #USS Oregon #Indiana Class #battleship #Predreadnought #Battleship Oregon #ship #warship #boat #July #1925 #Portland #Oregon #interwar period #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #west coast #my post

[ngmeier]

Concrete and shadows

Millar Library 2022

Portland State University

#photography #35mm color film #architecture #concrete #brutalism

[zombiesun]

Hello, I was just wondering if you could share the process details of you legally changing your name? I would really really love to change mine, I’m also of the legal age, and I just don’t know where to even start. Any links you could share that might help would also be great if not the self-description. Even though we don’t know each other, I am so so happy for you as a trans person and want to send all of the congratulations in the world to you. Happy Vin day !!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely! I can't really share links because I don't know what state you're in and the name changing process is different depending on the state and country you live in, but I'll let you know what I did, and then you can look up what the process is wherever you live.

you'll need to get fingerprinted and submit them to the FBI and your state bureau. you can look up fingerprinting services near you (I got fingerprinted in a library study hall by a remote company) and they'll submit them for you. I got my results back instantly, but when I got fingerprinted a few years back they sent me my results. be sure to double-check your information because the first time I got fingerprinted they said I was born in 1976 and had no criminal record. I was not born in 1976. this will cost around $80-100.

after you have your fingerprinting results back you have 90 days to submit your application for a name chance with your courts. this is the point where you google (state name) adult name change process and see what paperwork you need to file. I printed out my paperwork, filed it, and then took it to my county's court house (along with my fingerprints) and gave them to the clerk. they'll review your application to make sure everything is filled out correctly and either charge you a filing fee ($100) or, if you're below the poverty line your fee will be waved (at least in my state). they'll then give you your court date.

my court was held over zoom but there are many states that still hold them in person. it took about three weeks after I filed for my court date to happen but when it arrived I logged on. the judge confirmed the name I wanted to change to, asked me a few more legal questions. and then said my name had gone from (x) to my name now. in some places, you have to actually publish your name in a newspaper three times before your name change is official. in my state, that is waived because it's for gender affirming reasons but my ex who lives in Portland had to have their name on a billboard for 3+ weeks because legality is weird. it depends on your state whether you have to do that part of the process.

after court you'll be sent the paperwork that confirms that your name is in fact, changed. you then take this piece of paper to the DMV to get your ID changed and then buy additional copies of that paperwork (in my state it's $20 dollars each) for your social security and passport if you have one. then you'll start the process of making sure your bank, medical records, and any other place that has your name on file is aware of your name change.

That's the process I followed! Again, each state is different so be sure to google what paperwork is required but universally, it goes fingerprinting/background check, filing, court date, possible name publishing depending on the state, and then working on getting your IDs changed. Good luck!

Thanks again for the well-wishes! I should really remember today specifically as a little personal holiday, so I appreciate that.

#mailbox #name change #dude this process is so daunting on paper but like. not as hard as it sounds in real life #I waited way too long tbh to start it and I encourage you to start as soon as you have the money to do so! trans person to trans person #love you and believe in you get that dead name kicked 2 the fucking curb