by John O. Andersen The best things we’ve achieved in American history have been done without protests. They’ve been done when the people followed the leaders, did what big business wanted them to do, and didn’t ask any questions. “Wait,” you may ask, “what about all of those marches like with Martin Luther King, Jr.?”…
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Robert Reich: Occupy Democracy
Clean-up of OUR PARKS postponed
The cleanup of our parks originally scheduled to take place tomorrow, Wednesday, November 23, has been postponed till further notice due to the weather. Meanwhile, Umpqua Bank has donated $25,000 for cleanup of our parks.
Civil Rights Strategies for Occupy
By Sandy Polishuk I would like to bring an important article to the attention of all Occupiers. It suggests applying the successful strategies of the civil rights movement to a national “We are the 99%” movement. Those strategies were civil disobedience, grass-roots organizing, and mass boycotts. The article is by Andrew Levison, who was for…
Occupy Earth
By Samantha Silverman What I Learned During My Time at Occupy Portland As an outsider that knew nothing about the Occupy Wall Street movement outside of unreliable news media and stories from a friend’s sister’s best friend from college’s post on tumblr (the most reliable of sources), I went to the encampment expecting little more…
Some inspiration from our friends at Occupy Wall Street!
Mothers Against Pepper Spray (MAPS)
By K. Kendall PJ Seleska’s powerful picture of a riot cop drenching the Constitution Declaration of Independence in pepper spray has been all over the internet today. Police fired pepper spray at unarmed, seated Occupy protesters at UC Davis, in California; and here in Portland, police aimed a stream of pepper spray at Liz Nichols. …
Two Alternative Holiday Celebrations
By Gina Ronning and a Committee of Occupy Portland Supporters 1) Light for Life On Black Friday A Vigil in Solidarity for All Those Left Out in the Streets. 4:00pm November 25th to 10:00 am November 26th Pioneer Square Flyer explains: WHAT YOU WILL NEED: *Tea lights (or votives), and bring enough for the entire…
Propaganda Works: But Keep Telling the Truth
By Chris Petchonka, photo by Ian Carmany The propaganda machine works. As a person involved in Occupy Portland, I’m battling misinformation, exaggerations, and straw-man arguments dispersed by some of the mainstream media. Like a a stream of toxic waste, this misinformation seeps into the public consciousness. I’m encountering people who claim they initially loved the…
Clean up OUR PARKS!
Right now the parks where we lived and worked for the first five weeks of our Occupation are roped off with yellow police tape behind a fence topped with barbed wire. These pictures were made at the Vigil the night of November 19, when we gathered to honor the space where we first met each…
