By Illona Trogub Sitting on a bench in Chapman Square, Maxwell Hunter stuck out at Occupy Portland. In freshly pressed suit and tie with a laptop perching on his lap, he could have been a normal sight in any downtown park. But he chose our park with the ambiance of chaotic revolution to surround him.…
Month: March 2012
Occupy Miami Held at Gunpoint
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This story is from the Occupied News Wire. This story originally appeared at the Occupied Wall Street Journal and on Occupied Stories. The call had been issued by Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Glen Iris and Take Back The Block to occupy Chase Bank and shut it down. Occupy Miami had been in a dormant yet turbulent state for a while. We hadn’t organized any…
UPDATE: A Repairable Racism Within Occupy Portland
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Please See Below for Update By Ahjamu Umi A few weeks ago, I wrote two articles on racism within the Occupy movement. Although I, and several people who responded to my articles, supplied several examples of how racism exists within the Occupy movement (simply because racism exists in every aspect of U.S. society and Occupy…
Birthplace of the Occupy Movement Raided, Barricaded on 6-Month Anniversary
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This story is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Wall Street Journal. by Jennifer Sacks and Jed Brandt Once again, police brought violence to a peaceful, joyous gathering, arresting demonstrators after they massed in Liberty Square on the six-month anniversary of the founding of Occupy Wall Street. People began…
I Give Up. Almost.
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by Angela Davis I give up. Almost. Watching the news lately I have tried to think like an independent, conscious person. I make an effort to investigate, fact check, and use a critical eye to see through the hype and canned political soup we are spoon-fed every day. Just today, I was struck by the…
Soldiers for the Disenfutured
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by Robin Ryan Aren’t buzz words really what we’re talking about here? Anarchy, black bloc, cancer, democracy, empire, fascism: These are labels. And while labels might be necessary to bring a sense of compartmentalized order for our brains to store and correlate information, how terms are defined play a fluid role in the sorting. Whether…
Small Meetings, Germinating the Seeds of Democracy
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By Vargus Pike There is a side of the Occupy movement that does not consist of street marches and confrontations with police. It doesn’t involve the occupation of parks or shipyards. It is a side that receives little to no press, but in the end may be one of the most important aspects of the…
Happy Six-Month Anniversary, Occupy Wall Street
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The Other Side
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By David Glenn Cox There is a common story to our lives. It is a story of love and loss, joys and regrets. We all share in these things equally and we are all locked inside of our times. It began as a simple conversation about how much things had changed in America since the…
Ron Wyden Challenges Obama on Surveillance
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Wired’s Threat-Level blog reported on Thursday, March 15 on the efforts of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Colorado Senator Mark Udall to urge President Obama to release information about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court (FISA), which they say has over-interpreted the Patriot Act, creating the most expansive surveillance powers for the Federal government yet. The…
