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Calling all radicals, please show up to the GA Saturday or possibly Sunday night to block a proposed "code of conduct" for marches sponsored by the Occupy Portland GA.
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Police raided Occupy Oakland in the wee hours of Oct 25, setting off the Nov 2nd General Strike in which some 40,000 persons took part.
The Portland Police Association, known to most of us as the group that fights hard to make sure that no Portland officer is ever convicted of any wrong-doing, the group that gets killer cops re-instated after being put on leave or being fired, has said "enough is enough" with regards to the occupation.
This statement comes from Portland, Oregon following the solidarity actions that occurred nationwide on wednesday. Despite references to specific occurrences here, I feel assured that others elsewhere are warming themselves elsewhere with similar thoughts on this particularly chilly night.
TONIGHT: The International Socialist Organization and Haymarket Books present a special event with Olympic track-and-field medalist John Carlos, whose courageous stand during the medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics remains one of the most iconic images in sports history and the history of the civil rights movement.
Occupy Starbucks (the song)
Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at:
movetoamend.org
Please join us at Terry Shrunk Plaza at 9:30 a.m. to open an account in a truly local bank or local credit union. These establishments are ready and waiting for those opening new accounts, with refreshments.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and the Voice of Russia.
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![]() decision on January 21, 2010, Americans everywhere are waking up to what we at Move to Amend have been saying all along: large multi-national corporations, with their insatiable thirst for profits, dominate every aspect of our political and social life. They have crashed our economy, raped our environment, and taken ownership of our ballot boxes in an attempt to turn our democracy into a corporatocracy.
come join us for our bi-monthly open meetings at red and black cafe. tonight: 11-3-11, 8pm.
Honestly, I sometimes wonder at who is behind what, don't you?
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Portland Police Officer Hits Protester with Motorcycle
Corporations, legal fictions, run your lives and your government thanks to the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. With Reagan, taxation shifted from corporate to individual. Russ Feingold, former senator from Wisconsin, will be speaking at EMU in Eugene at 4 PM on Monday, November 7, 2011.
Stewart Alexander, Socialist Party USA nominee for President, says the Occupy movement is to the left of the Democratic Party. More so, Alexander claims that Barack Obama represents the 1%, not the 99%.
take the bridges
7:21 PM PT: We can confirm multiple arrests and the use of pepper spray.
7:26 PM PT: We can confirm five arrests and the use of pepper spray at a chase bank earlier today. Pictures incoming. 7:32 PM PT: From Earlier: The Seattle PD have some kind of Pepper Spray that looks like it's put in a kitchen fire extinguisher. 7:37 PM PT: More images of pepper spray from earlier are incoming. The Sheraton where Jamie Dimon is speaking is STILL occupied.
Bill to protect seniors a whitewash
Eric has been transferred
movetoamend.org Sign the petition to amend the Constitution by revoking corporate personhood.
The call for a general strike in Oakland to protest the savage police attack on Occupy protesters is linking the movement more closely with the organized working class. In A protest against political repression and a show of working-class muscle, thousands will take the streets of Oakland, Calif., November 2 to answer the call for a general strike by Occupy Oakland.
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In the financial district, they proclaim: "Buy shares, not populations." "Tax the Rich" could be read on many signs. Bus drivers, teachers and nurses declared: "We have the same goals as the occupiers." At the same time solidarity actions are taking place at 147 other places in the US from the high North down to Florida. More than 30 new places are added overnight.
At General Assembly Tuesday night, statement of solidarity was made with no stand asides or blocks (although no formal discussion either) of solidarity with Occupy Oakland general strike called for today in Oakland area. Please contact mayor and police chief of Oakland to request no reprisals and assistance for strike at shipyard, 5th largest in U.S.
Is that a violation of the arrestees' civil rights? Some of the demonstrators arrested were minors (and I am not sure if their photos were among the ones published). How does the fact that they are not adults change this story? Remember, these people aren't convicted pedophiles, they're just participants in a peaceful protest who were arrested, and haven't yet seen their day in court.
Eric is getting transferred...
I am not for "communism." The present economic disaster has come about because everybody ignored the obvious fact that a nation that allows 1% to own almost everything, while 99% own almost nothing, cannot be free. The 1% exists because they have have accumulated so much power that they do not get taxed at all. Meanwhile, people with normal jobs, even minimum wage jobs (few are informed of this) are required to give up at least 25% of their income to taxes!
We are back in the Gilded Age of 1931; the 1% rich own it all; the 99% non-rich own virtually nothing. But there is a difference now. All of our productional industry has been sent off-shore, and our workers are without skills and sound education. Beware! "George Washington famously said, 'Government is Force.'" Well he was as slave owner, wasn't he? But there is more to it than that. Force is not government. Owning slaves is real force! Property implies force, in fact. Too much property implies too much force! What right do the super-rich have to use GOVERNMENT FORCE to "protect" their extravagant wealth? Wealth is force without democracy. Money + information (about other people) = power.
It's happening -- Move Your Money Day Portland, Nov. 5, 9:30 a.m. till 1:30 p.m.
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1 November 2011 - Oakland, Ca.
We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide a living for our children and families. We are severely understaffed with many City beats remaining unprotected by police during the day and evening hours.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Early Tuesday morning, after reportedly consulting with decision makers in other parts of the country, Federal officials enlisted the help of Portland Police to remove Occupy Portland protesters from federally owned Terry D. Schrunk Plaza. The move came around 3:45 AM after most supporters had gone to sleep and news crews had left.
![]() That is the title of an Oregonian article in Nov 1 2011 Tuesday front page edition. Its in regard to a Eugene resident who [with out notifying the police he was recording his own traffic stop] filmed the cops with his cell phone during a traffic stop.
If you have some news from the hundreds of occupations around the country and the world post it here! Lots of little news snippets are of interest but too small for an article, so post them as comments to this article!
Calling all Anarchists, Radicals, anti-statists, anti-capitalists, queers, workers, reds...
In Portland, Oregon, all the promise and pitfalls of the Occupy Movement are on public display. Portland is second only to New York when it comes to sustained Occupy power, but in a newly born social movement strength is not something to take for granted. The vast amounts of public support in Portland, earned through large demonstrations and strategic outreach, can be frittered away by the internal contradictions of the movement.
Portland began its occupation with a 10,000-person rally that shook the city's foundation and disorientated the Mayor, who had no choice but to "allow" the occupation to stay at the park they had taken without asking. There has since been several large Portland rallies and marches that have proven the wider population's support: On October 26 a labor union-led Occupy march turned out thousands of union members with ecstatic morale; the same week showcased a "This Land is Our Land" Occupy rally by Portland band Pink Martini, which attracted nearly 10,000 people.
The rally will begin at 4:30 PM at Terry Schrunk Plaza, between SW 3rd and 4th at Madison - march at 5:30 PM.
The route will visit a few symbolic sites, and will end at Occupy Portland.
openly raceist campers
Recently by the S&L scandal, but this has been going on for centuries ...
Twill 14: The Impossible Magazine is a 246-page tour de force.
Alternative economics urges reduced working hours, investment in infrastructure, keeping public what is public, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment, community centers, free Internet books and soft power. Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people.
We, Occupy Portland support and advocate for community gardens.
We view sustainable localized food systems as important and believe that all people deserve access to healthy and culturally appropriate food. We wish to work with our community on developing a more secure food system. We ask Portland to add more space for community gardens.
Jo Ann Hardesty a former State Representative from NE Portland from 1995-2001 and currently on the Portland City Charter Review Commission is hosting an open forum for Occupy Portland to bring Public Financing of Elections back to Portland.
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Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New York (assets $30m), the customer-owned community bank that happens to also be the banker for Friends of Liberty Plaza, Inc, also known as Occupy Wall Street. And you thought Goldman didn't care.
We got no more money, honey. Go to the fucking church. Say all their fucking prayers. Shake their soft privileged hands. Get their lousy "sandwich" with one slice of cheap cheese.
Live 12 more hours.
The Wall Street elite should be taking these protests as a signal that they need to get their house in order. The status quo just is not going to cut it. But instead of taking leadership and calling for significant change, many among the elite are openly mocking the protesters. The incredible arrogance displayed by so many on Wall Street and by so many in Washington D.C. is absolutely appalling. The following are 10 examples of how the elite are openly mocking the poor in America today
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4:45pm, Terry Schrunk Plaza, 10/31/2011
If he could cut us a check for supplies / food / medicine, this could greatly help the occupation.
John Carlos and Dave Zirin. Friday, November 4th, 6pm. Hoffman Hall, Portland State University
Critical thinking and cultural shock have the power to turn the world upside down (like Jesus' parables and zen koans). Trivializing structural/systemic economic problems as motivational, psychological problems, bumps in the road or industrial accidents is a perversion like normalizing war and equating offense and defense. Destruction of language leads to generalized mistrust.
Safe(r) Spaces For Portland Police. Get to know... this!
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both."
- Frederick Douglass
it is time to call for a general strike
![]() ............................................................................................ Since September 17th Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has grown and inspired occupations around the globe. The General Assembly (GA) is at the heart of this movement. It provides a forum for political discussion and a plurality of ideas. It is, however, struggling to meet the day--]to--]day operational needs of the Working Groups and Caucuses.
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