by Lester Macgurdy The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. -Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto The throng of 8,000-plus protesters that converged on Pioneer Square in downtown Portland in early October was a massive chimera knit together by the tyranny of a world full of governments (ours among them) comprising…
Month: March 2012
A Brief Musing and Pathetically Informal Manifesto on Humanitism
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by Nate Perkins This is the internet’s greatest success: It is a private club that welcomes everyone and discriminates only against those who break the social contract that has arisen organically as a reflection of humanity. – a meshnet illuminatus by the name of DngrZnExpwyClosed The humanist focuses on the human as the cardinal, atomic…
(Video) Shut Down ALEC Corporations #F29 Fun at Occupy Portland
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Who Speaks for Occupy?
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by John Wood I’m on some of the planning lists and was involved in the December 12th port shutdown planning and in the EGT protest planning. Usually, whether or not an action had the approval of the General Assembly came up, implying that if it did not, it wasn’t a legitimate Occupy action. I went…
Tracking Tear Gas
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This story is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Wall Street Journal. by Allison Brown, Udi Pladott and Maia Ramnath for the OWS Global Justice Working Group. One of the biggest clues to understanding the connections among grassroots democratic uprisings across the world may be found by tracking connections…
