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Portland Police Confiscate Childhood Dream

When he was a kid, Dan Kaufman had a vision: A sound system on a tricycle. It seemed like a silly notion, but it had a powerful effect on him. He had no idea if such a thing was possible, but – what a dream it was. Dan grew up – well, sorta – and abandoned his impossible dream in favor of being a responsible family man. Then, a few years back, he went to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. There ...

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Bikeswarm: Modern urban guerilla tactic

[caption id="attachment_22022" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="e pluribus unum"][/caption]I had no idea what the Bikeswarm was until I was suddenly, unexpectedly part of it. After having been rousted from their initial occupation site on Nov. 13, Occupy Portland announced their intention to take over an entirely different park. The location of the planned new encampment was not announced, but peopl ...

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Who Are The Occupiers?

[caption id="attachment_21844" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Police closed down the bridge so the protesters couldn't."][/caption]Portland, Oregon, is occupied. In the blink of an eye, Portland became a police state. Good cop became bad cop in the space of a day -- specifically Nov. 13, when Portland’s formal downtown Occupation was rousted and the parks were fenced off. Since then they have ...

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The Education and Evolution of Occupy Portland

[caption id="attachment_21747" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Day One of Occupy Portland, Oct. 6. The occupation lasted 40 days and 40 nights."][/caption]Occupy Portland marched into town on October 6 and promptly took over two (and sometimes three) forested city blocks wedged between the federal courthouse and the Portland building. In the first week of the occupation, tents sprouted up slowly on ...

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The Cheddar Rebellion is about all of us.

“We need to live within our means,” I hear people say. And I always wonder, why can’t rich people live within their means? Their means are really great. They could actually make do with a lot less than their current means, and still have nice yachts and summer villas and trips to Bermuda or wherever the hell rich people go. ...

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How Rev. Terry Jones Could Save The World

[caption id="attachment_14780" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center"][/caption] Early on the morning of Friday, September 10, 2010, the Rev. Terry Jones hastily called a press conference on the steps of his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, and emerged pale and shaken to read a short announcement to reporters from CNN, Fox, ...

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You Can Never Be Crazy Enough.

[caption id="attachment_13758" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Palin and Malkin and Beck, Oh Reilly!"][/caption] OK, here’s the thing: I started out as a Mormon. It wasn’t my idea but I accepted it because there was no alternative at the time. So I tried really hard to be good at it. But never, never was I good enough. I was always saying hilarious things that trampled on the sensitivities of my fe ...

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