Colorado: Community Rights vs Corporate Power
In Colorado, the fight to elevate people's rights over corporate rights has reached the state level with an initiative to add a constitutional amendment to prevent state preemption and enshrine the...
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Can Portland Get Any Weirder?
I certainly hope so. Oregon enjoys an international reputation for progressive values which it no longer deserves. Yet that could be radically changing with the surprise emergence of activist and...
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Caleb Changes Conversation: $15 HOW
Kshama Sawant & Nick Caleb for $15 Now in Portland. Want to make a difference in your community? Run for office. That's what Nicholas Ivan Caleb did when the deadline for filing for Portland City...
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Street Prophets: Kill Your Lawn
Welcome to Wednesday Open Thread. Come on in and write about what you are doing today. How do you feel about your lawn?Occupy Your Yard as part of the local food system. I graduated with a fresh...
View ArticleDirty Dealings in Oregon Statehouse
Oregon GOP legislators have been dutifully chipping away at Oregon Public Employees Retirement System(PERS) each session. Successfully pitting schools and local governments against retirees, they have...
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David Slays GMO Goliath!
Despite the $1.3 million that Monsanto et al invested in fighting the Jackson County ordinance to ban the cultivation of GMO crops, voters handed them their heads on a platter by a 2 to 1 margin."We...
View ArticleFirst CA County Bans Fracking!
Santa Cruz leads the pack!Their board of county supervisors voted unanimously to not only prohibit fracking but also gas and oil development.And there are other counties that are following with their...
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Oregon On Fire for March Against Monsanto!
This is the headline on our local paper after the wheat contamination was disclosed. It was the same day we had a Monsanto Global Plant Breeder come speak at OSU. This is the sign I carried to greet...
View ArticleArtist Stops Oil Pipeline Cold
Alberta artist, Peter von Tiesenhausen, has effectively stopped oil corporations from putting a pipeline through his 800 acre property by covering it with artwork and copyrighting the top six inches of...
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Welcome Home
The recent exodus of posters from Huffington Post brought back to me my own status as Displaced Blogger from two virtual communities I absolutely loved. My first blogging home was Open Salon. It was...
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Street Prophets: Pope Francis Throws Out Moneychangers Again!
Welcome to Street Prophets Open Thread! Come by and let us know anything you want! The Vatican seems to have an inexhaustible supply of moneychangers! However, Pope Francis continues to make good on...
View ArticleNew Civil Rights Movement
In our nation whose founding documents enshrine the civil rights of all, the American experience has been one of long hard-fought struggles by minorities to achieve that lofty goal. No one who lived...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Scolds Me
In the interests of keeping an eye on dangerous people, I am on Paul Ryan's fundraising email list. I heard from him this morning.Great news – last week we asked supporters like you to step up and help...
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Séralini Paper Damning GMO Roundup Ready Corn Republished
A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been republished following its controversial retraction under strong commercial pressure. Now...
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Redeemed by Dog
You see them every day beside the road--a man in dirty fatigues begging with a hand-drawn sign and, beside him, a dog. In passing, you might wonder why a person who cannot take care of himself subjects...
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Street Prophets: Garden Update (photos)
Welcome to Wednesday Street Prophets open thread. Come in, pull up a lawn chair and tell us how your garden grows!Front porch entry. In my post last month (Kill Your Lawn), I described how I occupied...
View ArticleOR: GMO Labeling Bill Makes Ballot
Oregonians will have the opportunity to vote this November on the consumer's right to know what is in their food thanks to the Oregon Right to Know campaign which gathered 156,390 signatures, 118,780...
View ArticleOR Right to Know Petition
The Oregon Right to Know campaign is preparing for the huge onslaught of out-of-state money from giant Biotech corporations in opposition to GMO labeling Ballot Measure 92. As a grassroots...
View ArticleUnvaccinated Children? Cut Them From the Herd
Yesterday I visited with a mom who had made the personal choice of signing a waiver for vaccinations for her two school-aged children. She cited the lack of these childhood diseases and her assertion...
View ArticleCheck Your Amazon Bill
No corporation is so well off that they can’t come up with new ways to improve their cash flow.My husband is a very 20th century man. I had just convinced him that it was perfectly safe to order goods...
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