by Robin Banks On the one hand, there are the forces of control. There are commercial interests which see the commons as theirs – to transport their goods, to advertise and sell their products, to facilitate the functional operation of the machine. Acting on their behalf are the police and politicians, who enforce this relationship…
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Labor Solidarity Commitee Plans Job-Finding Assembly
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by Barbara Ellis A Job-Finding Assembly for the long-term unemployed in Multnomah’s East County and Clackamas county by Occupy Portland’s Labor Solidarity Committee is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, April 15. It will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. at SEIU Local 503’s headquarters, 64th and SE Holgate Boulevard. The purpose is to organize this…
Teachers Need Their Community to Stand With Them Against Exploitation
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by Greg Margolis On March 20, 2012, an estimated crowd of 1,500 teachers and community members, including parents and students, gathered in the Gresham High School gymnasium to rally and march in support of the Gresham-Barlow Education Association, Reynolds Education Association and Parkrose Faculty Association in their efforts to bargain a fair contract with the…
Scenes from Occupy Halfway, Oregon
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Perception Management
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by David Glenn Cox There is no top to this and no bottom. There are no sides to this and no way to contain it. It can only be held in place temporarily, only with makeshift propaganda and truckloads of hubris. This involves us all, every last mother-loving son or daughter of us and it…
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike
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by Jeremy Brecher Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park. Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights.” The idea has spread…
State Harassment
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by Kathryn Kendall Note: Throughout this article, people are identified as white or black, because the historical perception of “white” and “black” is part of the power dynamic being described. In his book “Race Matters”, Cornel West writes, “Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be “white”– they would be Irish,…
World Premiere: Occupation Nation
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You may already love, or at least be familiar with, the B Media Collective through their regular People’s Cinema events at the Occupy Portland camp. If so, you’ll want to be at St. Francis this Friday at 8 pm for the world premiere of the local activist-filmmaker group’s Occupation Nation. According to the group, “This movie slams the…
Portland General Assembly Returns to Terry Schrunk Plaza
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By Mungen Cakes On Sunday March 25, for the first time since eviction, Occupy Portland General Assembly was held in Terry Schrunk Plaza. For the past four months the GA has been held under cover at Director Park, eight blocks away. It was moved back to the open air venue, for one night, in solidarity…
The History of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
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by Sandy Polishuk The spark that ignited the social and political activism of young people in the decade known as “the 60s” flashed on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement grew out of the Civil Rights movement of the previous decade, and from resistance to…
