Podcasts about occupy portland

Cameron Whitten is a prominent political and community advocate for blacks, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and other marginalized people groups in Portland Oregon. He came to Portland as a homeless youth living on the streets, and, through various assistance programs, was able to find housing, employment, and graduate from university. He became a political activist in the Occupy Portland movement, embarked on a 55-day hunger strike on the steps of City Hall to protest the housing crisis and inequality in Portland, ran for Mayor of Portland at the age of 21, and was nominated for the state treasurer position. He has served as the Executive Director of the Q Center a community center serving the LGBTQ+ community, is the founder of the racial justice nonprofit Brown Hope, co-founder of Black Resilience Fund which has raised over 2.5MM dollars for Black people in Portland and a whole lot more!He has been through a lot and has had to fight over and over to have his voice heard, but he continues to be an advocate to fight racial injustice and discrimination of any kind along with being a champion of community, love, and hope!Websites:Black Resilience Fundhttps://www.blackresiliencefund.comBrown Hopehttps://www.brownhope.orgPodcast:Your Neighborhood Black Friends  

Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include the Apple/FBI encryption fight, Apple’s upcoming event and the products they’re expected to announce. And Campo Santo’s fantastic new video game “Firewatch”.

Cari Luna originally started writing her debut novel, “The Revolution of Everyday,” as a Dear John Letter to New York City. She was born there and lived there on and off until 2007, when she just couldn't afford to stay any longer. But after she moved to Portland and got some distance, the book became a love letter as well. The story is about a group of people squatting in New York City's Lower East Side in the ‘90s. It was the early days of gentrification, when then Mayor Rudy Guliani was cracking down on squats, meaning the characters are living under constant threat that their building will get torn down.Now the novel is one of five finalists for the Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. You can hear our conversations with the other four finalists in our Fiction Episode.In this extended interview, we cover a range of topics: What Luna wanted to write about“What came first was the idea of how new york had changed in the time I'd been there and gentrification.”Gentrification“It's one thing to move into a neighborhood that already has an existing population and culture and try to fit yourself into that and join the neighborhood and be part of the community. It's another thing to try to change the neighborhood to resemble what you came from.”Occupy Wall Street“It was wonderful to see there was a genuine appetite for radical protest in the country. It was really disheartening, though unsurprising, to see how it was squashed. My daughter…was eighteen months old when the Portland campus cleared, and I had been going down there for general assembly that day. We watched the Occupy Portland get evicted from a safe distance, because she was a little one. That was hard and really disappointing. I thought we were placed in a moment where real change might happen” New York and Portland's fights for affordable housing“I feel a little guilty as a transplant from New York. Though I think we are less vilified than the transplants from California. I'm hoping that Portland does a better job at protecting its citizens and its housing than New York has…”And here's Luna's full reading that we excerpted in the Fiction Episode.

Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a "shameless agitator" from Portland, Oregon.  He became politically active during the Occupy Portland movement and, at twenty, made a bid to become the mayor of the Rose City with endorsements from the Green Party and Oregon Progressive Party.  As of this posting, Whitten is on day 44 of a hunger strike designed to spark the Portland City Council to address issues of housing inequality. We spoke about Occupy, equality, and the idea of The Conversation.  For Whitten, The Conversation is a first step to addressing issues of class inequality, which he considers the greatest crisis our era.  This marks the first extended discussion of class in The Conversation, but it is worth juxtaposing Whitten's view next to the belief in incremental improvement that pervaded my talks with Max More, Colin Camerer, Chris McKay, and Ariel Waldman. Interestingly, Whitten also brushes aside the issue of population growth that has surfaced in conversations from Jan Lundberg to John Zerzan.  There are abundant resources, Whitten claims, rather the question is of distribution.

Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a "shameless agitator" from Portland, Oregon.  He became politically active during the Occupy Portland movement and, at twenty, made a bid to become the mayor of the Rose City with endorsements from the Green Party and Oregon Progressive Party.  As of this posting, Whitten is on day 44 of a hunger strike designed to spark the Portland City Council to address issues of housing inequality. We spoke about Occupy, equality, and the idea of The Conversation.  For Whitten, The Conversation is a first step to addressing issues of class inequality, which he considers the greatest crisis our era.  This marks the first extended discussion of class in The Conversation, but it is worth juxtaposing Whitten's view next to the belief in incremental improvement that pervaded my talks with Max More, Colin Camerer, Chris McKay, and Ariel Waldman. Interestingly, Whitten also brushes aside the issue of population growth that has surfaced in conversations from Jan Lundberg to John Zerzan.  There are abundant resources, Whitten claims, rather the question is of distribution.

Barbara Wynne from Occupy Portland and Maralena from Occupy Wall Street talk about their respective occupations. Jessie Spector discusses how Resource Generation assists folks from the 1% in learning how to use their resources for the common good. Music by: Ani Difranco … More ... The post Barbara and Maralena: Occupy Portland/Wall Street, and Jessie Spector: Resource Generation appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

Joshua Clay joins me via skype from Portland,OR. We talk Steady by Jerks, Trent Reznor, Cultural Connections, Day of the Dead Art, Huey Newton, Huey Lewis, Collegiate Tricks, The Occupy Movement, Carlos Barnes, Taking Back Public Space, Wealths Naivete, Money Laundering Food Stamps,Perpetuating Nonsense, Power Drunk, Evolution over Revolution

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  From their website... occupywallst.org " Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%"   people of all walks of life throughout the nation including here in Portland Oregon as well as other cities in the nation have joined these marches for a variety of reasons.       Some of our representatives are referring to this as the beginnings of a "mob" others feel it's about time.       Is this the revolution that people have been predicting for a long time?       join us for a new day and time Monday 1 PM Pacific time as will talk about these issues and more.   Call in number 646-721-9887   E-mail Talk@krbnradio.com   I-tunes (search itunes krbn)

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