by Lana Buchanan It used to be that the homeless were the drunks and drug addicts that lived under the local bridge and people largely ignored them. In today’s world the faces of the homeless have changed, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore. There are still many who choose to live on the streets,…
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Free Choice
by Anonymous Occupier What hides under the spectacular oppositions is a unity of misery. Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other, all of them built on real contradictions which are repressed. The spectacle exists in a concentrated or a diffuse form depending on the necessities of the…
Occupier Reading List for January 3rd through January 4th
Here’s what The Occupier thinks you should be reading: After Iowa vote, questions mount about Occupy movement’s impact on presidential campaign – The BRAD BLOG : Occupying the Rose Parade’s TV Audience With Anything but Occupy Wall Street Marchers – Montana High Court Says ‘Citizens United’ Does Not Apply In Big Sky State | |…
Occupy Portland Ramps up Legislative Initiatives
by Alex Pio Over the past few months several of Occupy Portland’s committees have been busy working on legislative items to enact far-reaching social and political changes. These groups are now emerging from the background in the New Year with a number of events and initiatives to advocate large-scale change for the 99%. Back in…
Letter from Erin Madden
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to spend unregulated and undisclosed sums of money on elections. The Citizens United decision has led to unprecedented campaign spending by corporations, drowning out the voices of We…
Elsewhere in Occupy for December 31st – January 2nd
Here’s what The Occupier thinks you should be reading: #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Magazine – The writer of this article seems to favor the view that all large gatherings are mobs. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success – Anu Partanen – National – The Atlantic – Anonymous…
Political Science 101 For Those Confused By The Occupy Movement
by Gina Ronning The Occupy movement has been a catalyst for much needed national discourse on the issues of corporate greed and political corruption. More importantly, this discourse is coming from those most affected by the actions of self-driven profiteering businesses, which have long sought to silence this discourse. However, unsustainable practices will inevitably fall…
Occupy Their Minds
By: KJ Ink (more of KJ’s work can be found on his blog)
This Week in Banking News, Saturday, December 31.
If nothing else, it should probably at least be free to be poor A California resident has recently filed a lawsuit against Umpqua Bank over its assessment of overdraft fees. The lawsuit claims that the practice violates the contract between the bank and its customers. It alleges that the bank reordered debits to the plaintiff’s account,…
The Declaration of Occupy Portland
by Adam Rothstein I have seen a vision of the end of Occupy Portland. It looks like a meeting with no actionable agenda, no notes, and no plan for a follow-up meeting. It is organized–maybe–on Facebook alone. And it will have the phrases “ninety-nine percent”, “unity”, and “positive” repeated upwards of twenty times each. It…
