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A Legend in Our Midst: Brian Wilson Speaks to...
Dear Cascadia: A Letter from the Great Beyond
Some Lies and Misinformation Surrounding Occupy Portland
Steve Novick Wants More Money in Politics – His...
by Lauren Paulson The dining room of St. Francis was not filled to capacity...
By Little Bear This is a follow-up to May 6th’s piece titled “RIP Ernest...
Lataya Dailey “The Occupiers Cost Thousands of Dollars of Damage to the Parks.” We’ve...
by Stephen Quirke Steve Novick is an odd fellow. He seems to fashion himself...
by Lauren Paulson The dining room of St. Francis was not filled to capacity on May 9, 2012. It should have been. A true legend spoke to a mixed group of about 60 Occupiers on a hopeful Spring evening. He is S. Brian Willson. His audience comfortably circled around him as he perched on...
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Vargus Pike When not enough money for education becomes too much for people to bear, they form organizations like UPSET (Underfunded Parents, Students, Educators Together). In three short weeks UPSET has grown from just an idea to a collaboration between concerned students, parents, teachers, and community members that organized over one thousand people for...
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by Shamus Cooke On May 5th in Portland, Oregon, a group of eighty activists from a broad array of labor and community groups met to discuss the region’s ongoing budget crises. Instead of simply complaining of cuts however, the meeting was meant to discuss alternatives, both immediate and more structural. Groups that endorsed the...
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This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published on Occupied Stories. by Julia Reinhart New York, NY – While living in Europe I was was witness to some intense May Day scenes, from evicted squatters smashing windows in Zurich to lingering tensions from the break-up of Yugoslavia spilling onto the streets of...
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by Sandy Polishuk During the national wave of anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s, Oregon’s Trojan Decommissioning Alliance (TDA) was the only group to target an operating nuclear plant for non-violent civil disobedience. Claiming headlines both for its demonstrations and its analysis of Trojan’s safety and costs, the work of the TDA was complemented by...
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By Little Bear This is a follow-up to May 6th’s piece titled “RIP Ernest Callenbach, Good Morning Cascadia”. This letter was originally published in TomDispatch. Ernest Callenbach, author of “Ecotopia”, dreamt of a liberated and sustainable Pacific Northwest. He...
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Lataya Dailey “The Occupiers Cost Thousands of Dollars of Damage to the Parks.” We’ve heard the estimate that over 85,000 dollars in damage was caused by Occupiers while the protest site was established in Chapman and Lownsdale Park. According...
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by Stephen Quirke Steve Novick is an odd fellow. He seems to fashion himself a rebel, a brave upstart pushing bold new ideas. But I’ve been noticing some weird things about Novick, a pattern that I’m finding it hard...
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by Vargus Pike The Portland Police Bureau’s press release in response to accusations of police brutality on May Day is a masterful piece of propaganda. Its author knew full well that the local news and radio stations would parrot...
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This piece is from the Occupied News Wire. It originally appeared in the Occupied Wall Street Journal. by Max Berger As long as there has been a thing called Occupy Wall Street, there have been people who’ve suggested it...
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by A Musing What if the sheriff ‘s department delivered a foreclosure and said, “We’re delivering this but we will not enforce it” ? What if the locksmith company was booked well in advance and couldn’t come by to change the locks …. ever ? What if the policeman refused to arrest a six-year-old...
by Colin Donoghue Walking on concrete-covered Earth another emergency vehicle suddenly blared a loud piercing siren which made me jump, and breathe deep on the toxic chemicals that constantly spew from the Oregonian newspaper building. I heard there used to be a 21 acre vegetable garden here, now it’s a place for thousands of...
by Vargus Pike This was written several years ago after the Blackwater massacre 9/16/2007 in Nisour Square, Baghdad Still seems topical today Blackwater transforms to… Black ice cold fingers of death reaching out across a plaza Freedom transforms too… Dogs of war tear into flesh, indiscriminate blind to politic. For I have met the...
by Julie Mccurdy the reasons for my resistance…….. still we stand ready for the next assault to our dignity to our senses to our sustainability locked and loaded we stand just because the genocide you peddle is now bottled and loaded into rigs or pipes doesn’t make it any more or less genocide…….. yes...
From our friends at B Media Collective, come their fifth feature clip show, “Occupation...
This piece is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published at The...
Occupy Portland held a rally against the Hanford Nuclear Site on April 15, at John Dam Park in downtown Richland, Washington. This video is the second of two parts and features the keynote speech by well-known anti-nuclear advocate Dr. Helen Caldicott, as well as an interview Occupy Portland Media did with Dr. Caldicott right after the speech. The first part ran yesterday.
