geologia: 2025–2026 Portland, Oregon, protests

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On June 4, 2025, ongoing protests began in Portland, Oregon in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and presence in the city and surrounding area. The protests began in conjunction with a similar protest in Los Angeles, California. The protests have generally been focused around the immediate vicinity of the ICE field office in Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood, approximately one mile south of downtown. The protests gained national attention after President Donald Trump referred to the city as "anarchy" during a September 5 press conference and later referred to the city as "war-ravaged" and that federal buildings were “under siege" by Antifa and “other do…

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No Kings protests (also called No Kings 2 and No Kings Day 2.0) took place on October 18, 2025, as part of a series of demonstrations taking place largely in the United States against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency. The demonstrations, which followed the June 2025 No Kings protests, took place in some 2,700 locations across the country, including the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York City. Organizers of the protests estimated that the protests drew nearly 7 million attendees, while a partnership between data journalist G. Elliott Morris and the Xylom, an independent Atlanta-based science newsroom, estimated 5 million to 6.5 million pa…

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National Science Foundation Materials Chemistry Workshop October 12−15, 2000 Portland, Oregon

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Starting in May 2020, protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland, Oregon, concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020, many of the protests, which had been held every day since May 28, drew more than 1,000 participants. Protests continued into August, September, and October 2020, often drawing hundreds. While starting out as mostly peaceful demonstrations, by late summer of 2020 riots had exceeded peaceful protests in number and percentage overall. By September of 2020, demonstrations often involved arson, property damage (mostly concentrated in Downtown Portland), looting and vandalism. This pattern o…