by Lauren Paulsen Our eclectic media is puzzled. What is it these people (unwashed rabble) are protesting over there at the financial district of New York City? Longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer provides us with the easy answer. People who are down and out do not raise their voice when they are totally desperate and bereft. I,…
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Smart ALEC: A Video from B Media Collective
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video by B Media Collective. If you have not met them previously, you will soon be very acquainted, as they are The Occupier’s new officemates!
Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder
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By Anonymous There seems to be a beautification, or as some call it, gentrification process that is taking place in our neighborhood. We have lived here for almost 11 years, and although that hardly qualifies us a indigenous to Portland’s Hawthorne district, we have noticed some changes we aren’t happy about as current residents. My…
Expect Us
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by Bill Allyn and Heretic Productions
The Unmet Demand for Subsidized Housing
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By Joel Handley This morning at 6 a.m., Mercy Housing Lakefront, a subsidized housing provider, opened up “wait lists” to two of its apartment buildings: the Belray apartments at Belmont and Racine, and the Major Jenkins Apartments at Winthrop and Argyle. In total, Mercy Housing will accept 325 new applicants to its waiting lists. Between…
Breaking the Blue Code of Silence
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By Christina Schüll Police brutality — something I never thought of when I was a kid. Something I never really thought of as an adult, that is until protesters of the Occupy movement collided with police in Portland and throughout the rest of the country. As news from other cities poured in, I kept asking…
On Chase Bank CEO’s Birthday, Five Face Trial for Occupying Bank
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by Blake The trial of five Occupy Seattle participants, known locally as the Chase 5, will begin on March 13th in Seattle Municipal Court. The date coincides with a National Day of Action against Chase Bank with planned protests taking place in cities across the country. The CEO of JPMorgan CHASE, Jamie Dimon, will be…
Occupy Claims Victory as Obama Relocates G8 Summit
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This story is from the Occupied Media news wire. It was originally published over at the Occupied Chicago Tribune. By Joe M. In what WBEZ describes as “a move that surprised City Hall and organizers,” the White House has announced that the G8 summit scheduled to take place in Chicago will now be held at Camp David in…
Occupy DC Closes Monsanto for Shut Down the Corporations
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This article is from the Occupied Media news wire. It was originally published over at the Occupied Washington Times. By Michael Goldman Braving torrential rain, police violence, and a sea of red paint used for street theater, around 50 Occupy DC occupiers and their allies blockaded Monsanto’s downtown D.C. office for almost two hours. The protest…
Getting from A to B
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By David Glenn Cox It was just a few hours of one day, February 29th. It was leap day in downtown Portland and we were gathering under the Burnside Bridge and being Portland, it was raining. I’m learning a little about this town now: Portland is unique it is a quiet city, quiet and unhurried.…
