by Nicholas Caleb “MONEY! IS! NOT FREE SPEECH!” “MONEY! IS! NOT FREE SPEECH!” I spent three years of my life at the University of Oregon School of Law painfully internalizing the finer details of the tortured pro-corporate / anti-human tripe that passes for judicial legal reasoning in the Supreme Court. Outside of some significant decisions…
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Right 2 Dream Too – Rally at City Hall
By Shawn Fleek The evening of January 31st, 2012 saw a rally on the steps of City Hall intended to draw attention (and eventually overturn) to the city-wide “camping ban,” a city ordinance which makes it illegal to pitch a tent in a public park. The rally was organized independently of Occupy Portland’s official GA…
Citizens and Candidates Participate in Democracy
By Christina Schüll I walked into Portland’s 2012 Town Hall “Voices of the City” meeting in Hoffman Hall at PSU, expecting to see half a dozen candidates in the middle of discussing their grand ideas of how they promise to make our city a better one. What I found was the soft buzzing of people…
A Hero Speaks Out for a Hero
By Janice Leber Jeff Paterson of the Campaign to Free Bradley Manning is touring the Pacific Northwest, and he stops in Portland this Thursday, Feb. 2 for a rally at the First Unitarian Church on SW 12th and Salmon at 7:00 PM. Bradley Manning is the soldier charged with blowing the whistle on the “Iraq…
Report from MLK Day Action Against Wells Fargo
by Eliana Machuca On Martin Luther King Day, those arrested on the November 17th National Day of Action against the banks participated in a rally and march, raising awareness of the fact that Wells Fargo profits off of tax payers through bailout funds as well as through its investments in the private prison industry. Members…
Observations from the Citizen’s Review Committee Forum on Police Accountability
by Cascadian Joe On January 26th, The Citizens Review Committee (CRC) held a public forum at the SE Community center in order to hear the public’s concerns regarding the Portland Police Bureau. Also present were members of the Independent Police Review from the city auditors office. The forum consisted of around sixty members of the…
Sleep Is A Human Right
by Shawn Fleek On the evening of January 31st, an overnight sleep-in is scheduled outside of City Hall in Portland, to raise awareness of the city’s camping ban and to attempt to overturn the ban. The following morning at 8:30 AM, a rally will be held on the same topic. Though these actions are not…
Healthcare Cascadian Style – Notes from the Occupy Portland Health Fair
by illona trogub With one-third of Americans suffering from one of the big seven treatment-needing diseases and one-sixth of Americans being uninsured, corporate healthcare in this country is not working. As the saying goes, “Prevention is the best medicine”. However, there’s not much money to be made by Big Insurance and Big Pharma if their…
From Oakland, to All of Occupy
By Vargus Pike & Adam Rothstein January 28th was a day blackened by the dark armor of riot police clear across the North American continent. In Oakland, the efforts of Occupy protesters to build a community center in a long abandoned convention hall were blocked by brutal repression at the hands of law enforcement. Over…
God and Country Inc.
Supreme Court Recognizes Privilege of Religious Institutions over Labor Law. By Gene Ogorodov The Supreme Court made a ruling on the second landmark First Amendment case in three years—Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC. On 11 January 2012, the Court’s unanimous decision on this case has further secured the rights of corporations hitherto…
