6-minute video on the Council of Elders
Month: November 2011
This Week in Occupy
13-minute video
Pepper Spray: the Health Risks
The effect of pepper spray is beyond my imagination. A young, healthy police cadet in the prime of health calls it “the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life.” Portland’s Liz Nichols says, “It felt like my face, my hands, my ears were on fire.” Unimaginable pain. But beyond the pain, what exactly are…
Un-Spinning the Costs of Occupy
By David Newhouse The City of Portland claims that Occupy Portland has cost the City $1.29 Million in police overtime and $100,000 to repair Chapman and Lownsdale Squares. Umpqua Bank has pledged $25,000 as their donation to the cleanup, and other donations bring that up to $32,000, so if the parks’ estimate of $100,000 is…
Real Americans Don’t Protest
by John O. Andersen The best things we’ve achieved in American history have been done without protests. They’ve been done when the people followed the leaders, did what big business wanted them to do, and didn’t ask any questions. “Wait,” you may ask, “what about all of those marches like with Martin Luther King, Jr.?”…
Robert Reich: Occupy Democracy
Clean-up of OUR PARKS postponed
The cleanup of our parks originally scheduled to take place tomorrow, Wednesday, November 23, has been postponed till further notice due to the weather. Meanwhile, Umpqua Bank has donated $25,000 for cleanup of our parks.
Civil Rights Strategies for Occupy
By Sandy Polishuk I would like to bring an important article to the attention of all Occupiers. It suggests applying the successful strategies of the civil rights movement to a national “We are the 99%” movement. Those strategies were civil disobedience, grass-roots organizing, and mass boycotts. The article is by Andrew Levison, who was for…
Occupy Earth
By Samantha Silverman What I Learned During My Time at Occupy Portland As an outsider that knew nothing about the Occupy Wall Street movement outside of unreliable news media and stories from a friend’s sister’s best friend from college’s post on tumblr (the most reliable of sources), I went to the encampment expecting little more…
