Uprising: A Guide From Portland

Thousands of Portlanders decided their city had failed them. So they decided to take care of each other. Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Throughout the second half of July, Portlanders continued showing up en masse to confront federal agents downtown. As the struggle neared its conclusion, national media attention brought a strange, carnival air to the proceedings.  Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

In this episode we discuss how Portland's confrontation with the feds mushroomed from the Battle of July 4th into a massive, nationwide spectacle. Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

After more than a month of enduring police violence, Portland protesters finally leveled up enough to fight back. This is the story of the battle of July 4th. Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Over the course of June, 2020, BLM protests in most of the country either fizzled out or started to wane in frequency. Portland kept right on going, every single night, without break. In this episode we explain the infrastructure of resistance that gave birth to the Portland Uprising, and we talk about the fateful decision that turned President Trump's eyes towards the City of Roses.  Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

How did a bunch of angry strangers turn into a movement capable of braving unprecedented showers of tear gas and state violence? In this episode, we learn how a chaotic mass of protesters organized themselves into a unit capable of standing up to the worst violence the cops could throw at them. Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

For more than a hundred consecutive nights, Portland's Black Lives Matter movement endured violence from police, federal agents and right-wing vigilantes. In this episode, you'll learn how it all started, and why the city of Portland's history turned it into a battleground. Host: Robert Evans Executive Producer: Sophie Lichterman Writers: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Narration: Bea Lake, Donovan Smith, Elaine Kinchen, Garrison Davis, Robert Evans Editor: Chris Szczech Music: Crooked Ways by Propaganda Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, sparking an unprecedented series of nationwide protests against police brutality. At first, the protests in Portland were like the protests everywhere else. But then they just kept going, and going, for more than a hundred consecutive nights of tear gas, rubber bullets and beatings. Federal agents with chemical weapons, right wing vigilantes with homemade explosives and the Portland Police Bureau failed to stop Portland's Black Lives Matter movement. You've seen pieces of this story on the news. Now you can hear the truth, in the words of the people who were there.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers