Portland's Uprising Was a Mess Movement

The early marches had been absolutely enormous, but almost everyone there fell into the simple category of protester. There were some very overworked medics, but portland lacked the sheer variety of specialties among activists that allowed hong kong's protest movement to persist for so long. As in any mess movement, there was bound to be disagreements in in fighting. People had different opinion on everything from looting to dumster fires and how much fence shaking was acceptable. Despite those differences, people did keep coming out, day after day, night after night, for the entire first half of june. Some of those people are still coming out even now. Yet.