Portland anarchists attack goat refuge as revenge over homeless encampment removal

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“People don’t know where to go,” the anarchists wrote. “People are desperate. Sweeps are a cruel, inhuman, and murderous way for the city to push people around, to appease developers and business owners, to keep unhoused people from forming communities at networks of support that might allow them to survive.”

A Belmont Goats representative pushed back against the insinuation that they had anything to do with the planned move.

“They clearly don’t understand that we are essentially being ‘swept’ too,” they told KATU2. “We haven’t gone to the media about our move prior to now because the city has been so poor at communicating their plans with us.”

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