Portland Indy Media – Earth First! Occupies State Capitol Saying ‘Protect Our State Lands’ – 26 June 2012

(picture climbing flagpole to deploy banner)

Salem, OR: Near 10:00 AM Cascadia Earth First! and Cascadia Forest Defenders converged at the Oregon State Capitol. Activists chained themselves together and staged a “die-in” in the offices of Ted Wheeler and Kate Brown while others climbed the building’s flagpoles, hanging banners reading, “Oregon: For Sale by Kate Brown and Ted Wheeler” and “Defend Oregon, No Compromise, Earth First!”