Tag: 99%

Fertile Winter Yields Pay Dirt for Occupy Portland

By Barbara G. Ellis Portland, Oregon, is a city so packed with progressive activists that the two Bush presidents angrily dubbed it “Little Beirut”, because whenever they dared to drop in they were targeted by hundreds of vociferous protesters from many organizations. Issues that drew dissident ire included: the Iraq war, single-payer health insurance, impeaching…

99%: Send Bat Man!

Portland has our own Bat Signal. Scan the buildings downtown tonight, November 28. Mungen Cakes has a projector, a generator, and the will. He’ll begin projecting between 5:30 and 6 p.m. He doesn’t want to release the location till the projection starts, as he was harassed by police when he tried this on Black Friday.…