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How to live a Portland summer to its fullest potential
Year after year, Oregon’s summer fruit bounty always awakens my inner child. Fruit is referred to by some as nature’s candy, so perhaps it makes sense that the child in me gets absolutely giddy about the idea of picking wild blackberries and being paid for that labor in blackberries. I get similarly excited about the…
Black-owned farms in Oregon are advancing food sovereignty and making it fun
Malcolm X famously argued that “revolution is about land” in his 1963 speech “Message to the Grass Roots.” Today’s No Kings protests are notably whiter and older than the racial justice protests of 2020. Many politicians are distancing themselves from the rhetoric and policy proposals championed by the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2026, Black…
Does Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ advocate wildcat strikes?
Boots Riley’s latest absurdist film, “I Love Boosters,” follows a crew of shoplifters who take on a fashion mogul, inspiring a mass general strike. After watching, I chatted with a coworker about the potential for a social movement to generate the momentum to achieve a real, widespread general strike. Sure, Riley is known for his…
Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life
“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board. Photos of the destroyed mobile camera towers — the type with flashing blue lights you see in parking lots — show the group succeeded not just at vandalizing…
