Hi everyone, producer Chris here. You're about to listen to an interview I did over the weekend with an activist working with Portland's Occupy Ice Movement.

I originally intended this as a segment on this weekend's show, but ended up feeling like it didn't really fit in there.

So we're putting it out now, and that's also why it's a little on the short side.

If you all enjoy this, I'd like to do more conversations with people participating in direct actions out there.

So if there are any actions you think we should be aware of or people I should get in touch with, you can always reach out to me on Twitter.

I'm at say what again. And if you don't enjoy this, then feel free to email Virgil and complain.

All right, on to the interview.

Hi, this is Chris Wade here with Jordan. He is an activist with Portland's Occupy Ice Movement.

Jordan has been at the camp often on since the day after the occupation began on the 17th of June.

The camp was able to shut down Portland's ice facility for about a week at the end of June until DHS agents forcibly remove the camp from Ice's driveway and entrance on June 28th.

But the camp is persisted on public land directly adjacent to the ice facility until now.

And this is July 8th. So you said this is the 21st day or so of the occupation.

21st, yes.

And Jordan is now on location at the camp in Portland. So Jordan, how's it going?

It's going pretty well. Mooder high. We're getting stuff done. We're always building more infrastructure, keeping comms updated.

Could you start off by just grabbing just what the camp is like, what the facilities are like there, what the space is like and how you're running it?

Yeah, absolutely. So we are a non-hierarchical, more anarchistly leading group.

We're ideologically diverse, but we agree that that would be the best way going forward.

So everything's consensus based. We have a general assembly every morning at about 9 a.m.

Yeah. And for facilities, we have multiple portaporties. We have Wi-Fi, although it's kind of iffy at times because we're outside.

Electricity, charging stations, a finance 10.

And it's pretty well stocked, I would say, as well as a fully stocked kitchen where we have three meals a day.

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