By Jamie Partridge I have lived and worked in the Northeast/Killingsworth neighborhood for decades. I’m a recently-retired letter carrier, so I’ve had a street level view of the housing crisis in this community. I know who lives in the houses. I know what kind of work they do, whether they rent or own. I’ve watched kids…
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Got Foreclosure? Just Say No
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By K. Kendall Don’t be afraid. Don’t let the cops, the sheriffs, and the banks intimidate you. If your house has been marked for foreclosure, fight back–don’t let them take it. Above all, don’t leave your home. There is an organized, energized, nationwide community that will stand with you to occupy your home. This is…
Indefatigable Activist Ralph Nader Drives Occupy Message into Portland
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By Christina Schüll and Paul Cone Tireless citizen activist Ralph Nader spoke Monday night, April 9, to an overflowing crowd in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis and Clark College, as part of their 50th International Affairs Symposium. Nader followed Jamie Fly, who served in George W. Bush’s National Security Council, and is now the executive…
A Report on the Origins and Progress of Occupy Rosario (Argentina)
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This story is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published on Occupied Stories. by Claudia Minuet Fifteen people decided to show support for the Occupy Oakland movement who suffered terrible police brutality and camp out in front of the municipal palace in the plaza 25 de mayo in Rosario, Argentina on 11/11/11. The group Democracia Real broke away on 1/1/2012 and on…
Student Strike – Concordia University (Quebec) in Denial
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By Annelise Grube-Cavers “There won’t be a prolonged strike,” said (Chris) Mota. “From my experience, that has never been an issue at Concordia. When students do participate in a strike, it’s usually a one-day strike, in solidarity; I’ve been here for 18 years and I’ve never seen a prolonged student strike.” The Link, 8 November…
Student Debt: Students Demand Change from Oregon Board of Higher Education
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By Eric Coker Our institutions of higher education are now havens for private banks to extract wealth from the 99%. Student debt has skyrocketed to over a trillion dollars. More and more young adults cannot afford to pay back their student loans. The average Oregon University System student leaves school with roughly $24,000 in student…
Rekia, Trayvon and the Colors of Violence from Chicago to Sanford
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This article is from the Occupied News Wire. It was originally published in the Occupied Chicago Tribune. By Chris Geovanis The week that Trayvon Martin’s killing blew up as a national story, another Black person died of her skin color on the west side of Chicago. 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was shot in the head Wednesday,…
Occupy Trimet: Save Public Transit
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by K. Kendall TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane is directing TriMet as a corporation and not as a public service, according to James, an Occupier whose wife, daughter, and granddaughter have all been TriMet drivers. “He’s giving the fare inspectors quotas,” James says with outrage. “They have to give four citations an hour from now on,…
Hit the Streets to “Tomando Las Calles” (Taking the Streets), PCASC’s Annual Art Show
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by Pete Shaw Portland Central America Solidarity Committee’s (PCASC) second annual art show debuts this Friday, April 6. Like last year’s Criminales Todos (We Are All Criminals), which assembled a worldwide palette of artists, Tomando Las Calles (Taking The Streets) uses multiple media to challenge the labels “criminal” and “illegal”, as well as demanding a…
50,000 March in Support of Indigenous Culture in Southern France
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by Teleri Williams On a hot spring day, the last day of March, up to 50,000 people both young and old, danced and sang their way through Toulouse to the music of traditional instruments like the cabra or cornemuse, bagpipes made from goat skins, pipes, and drums. They had come from towns in southern France,…
