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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Occupy Disillusionment
by Michael Schultz There are some hard truths that we must swallow in order to be free of some of the shared illusions that have infiltrated our subconscious and unconscious minds. In this short essay, I’ll be expressing some of these truths. Once Occupy has fully swallowed these hard truths, they can be spread out…
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…
If a Tree Falls: Including the Many Voices of Occupy Portland
by members of the Livestream Team This week, Occupy Portland’s General Assembly passed a proposal implementing an online system for chat-room participants of the OPDX Livestream channel to voice consensus. The passing of this proposal is an innovative and positive advancement for the greater Occupy Portland community, overcoming fears and objections through working together and…
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…
Racism 101
by Ahjamu Umi Is the Occupy movement racist? The obvious answer is yes, but there are still going to be plenty of people who wouldn’t agree with that assessment. In fact, it’s a pretty safe bet that a significant number of activists within Occupy would argue Occupy isn’t racist. It’s also probably true that many…
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…
