Tag Archives: Occupy Portland

Occupy ICE: A Portland cesspool

The one-month anniversary this week of the Occupy encampment at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Portland, Ore., ended with a quiet thud – not the day of action and celebration it was supposed to be. “Organizers behind #OccupyICEPDX are celebrating one month of collective resistance in a movement that has spread across […]

America’s Transit of Venus

What kind of civilization will America be in December 2117? Will it be reduced to a once-extravagant wonder, a country whose glory days are found in history books that nobody reads anymore? In Shirley Hazzard’s 1980 novel, “The Transit of Venus,” a prosperous New York attorney tells his wife, a young woman from Australia: “Our […]

Held Hostage by Delusions

Now that Occupy Portland is looking for a new place to crash, it’s eyeing a relationship with Portland State University students. Carrie Medina, social media liaison for Occupy Portland, told the PSU Vanguard, that if Occupy Portland doesn’t set up tents on the South Park Blocks near the school, it might place information stations on […]

Preparing for Evolution

Antonio Zamora expects to wake up Monday morning in jail or on a park bench with a group of people. He could go to his mom’s place in Gresham, but what a letdown that would be after five weeks in Occupy Portland. “I have experienced real prosperity here,” the 26-year-old PCC student said, a couple […]

Dancing at the Revolution

If you’re going to do something radical, wear Brooks Brothers. You won’t just stop traffic, you’ll confound the status quo. Occupy Portland and the hundreds of other variations on New York’s Occupy Wall Street protest, need more ordinary middle-class employees. Many of them wear suits and are just as worried about America’s future. The men […]