in collaboration with Chase Wilson Shortly after one takes that uniquely dramatic ideological plunge into the swirling, full-spectrum milieu of radical politics, one inevitably encounters the phrase “dual power”. Coined in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin in his essay, The Dual Power, it has since taken on a frustrating multitude of definitions, though most of...
Read more →In Portland, protestors are routinely beaten by the police during demonstrations. If they don’t file for a permit before marching, the chance of police violence increases dramatically. In fact, the Portland Police Bureau, in its pre- and post-event press releases basically says that the difference between the violence and a safe, fun event is the...
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About a year ago, after I had gone to the November 17 Occupy the Banks protest — the first protest I’d ever actually been to — I wrote an op-ed on BlueOregon about how I thought that the police presence was unnecessary, intimidating, and unconstitutional. I wrote, in part: The first irony of the...
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