POL, Current Events, Alcohol mention
I'm horrified by the police violence happening right now. I want to curl up in a ball and just sleep forever. Actually, no, what I want to do is get drunk for like a week. Not going to do that, though. I'm still on my sober year.
POL, Police, NYE 2000 PDX
I was at Pioneer Courthouse Square on New Years Eve 2000 when people gathered only to find out the city didn't have an event planned. Cops showed up and started giving orders, the people reacted by surround a group of cops and one car. The cops then used tear gas on the crowd; the crowd dispersed into the city, smashing windows as it went. That seems like a modest police response in retrospect, compared to what's going on now.
POL, Current Protests, Alcohol
I was just searching for articles about that and they're hard to find now.
I've been in a few other demonstrations, protesting the war in the early 2000s, but those were all peaceful. I sat out Occupy because I was drunk most of that time.
Part of me wants to go downtown for these protests, but another part of me says the last thing they need is another white kid from out of town. I don't know.