Portland Alliance News!: February 2016

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 The PortlandAlliance: Feb. 2016 http://www. ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 February 2016

http://www. ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981

Does Bernie Sanders' Imperialism Matter?

by Shamus Cooke

Critiquing Bernie Sanders from the left can be a lonely project. There is a "hope"-powered hysteria surrounding his campaign, and bursting the "hope" bubble can produce a fierce backlash. The Sanders "hope" explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place.

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Jobs with Justice Update!

Event Calendar

Thursday, February 18

OregonSOS - Fight High Rents & Low Wages

Oregon State Capitol

900 Court St NE, Salem, Oregon 97301

#OregonSOS Oregonians are sinking,
and it's time to do something about it!

Join us as we build a tent city on the steps of the capitol building to highlight and call for a housing state of emergency in Oregon. Demand solutions to this state of emergency such as rent control and a moritorium on no-cause evictions, a statewide $15 and local control of minimum wage laws, and an end to ODOT sweeps of houseless camps.

Sponsored by Right to Survive, Right 2 Dream Too, 15 Now PDX, Don't Shoot PDX, Portland Rising Tide, Jobs with Justice, PSUSU, Hazelnut Grove, International Socialist Organization, and more.

Endorsed by NW Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, The Portand Alliance, The Peaceresource and The Wordsmith Collection and others... more
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Monthly Steering Committee Meeting Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 1500 NE Irving Street, Suite 585 Portland, OR 97232
First Monday of the Month Unless

info: http://www.theportlandalliance.org/jwjupdates

Contact DEQ and Bullseye regarding carcinogenic and neurotoxic emissions

W ednesday, The Portland Mercury reported that Bullseye Glass, located at 3722 SE 21st St, has been emitting "a monthly a Cadmium 49 times over the limit, Arsenic 159 times over the limit

verage of 49 times the state air-safety benchmark level for the neurotoxin and carcinogen cadmium, and 159 times the air-safety goal for the carcinogen arsenic."

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) plan to announce specifics of their collected data on Bullseye's toxic emissions recorded at nearby measuring stations. Also nearby are schools and a children's daycare located at Fred Meyer's headquarters, KinderCare Education LLC.

rest of story: http://www.theportlandalliance.org/breakingnews

Be sure to check out this issue!

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

And please send articles, essays, events, meetings, rallies and actions for March no later than February 21. And thanks for all you do. editor@theportandaliance.org.

Friday, February 12, 2016

February 2016 Portland Alliance Monthly Newspaper...

"Critiquing Bernie Sanders from
the left can be a lonely project.
There is a “hope”-powered hysteria surrounding his campaign, and
bursting the “hope” bubble can produce a fierce backlash.

The Sanders “hope” explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place." ~Cooke

February 2016 Portland Alliance

February 8, 2016

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Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 Feb. 2016

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Does Bernie Sanders’ Imperialism Matter?

by Shamus Cooke

Hope can be positive by pushing people into political action, but it’s also exploited by the establishment as shiny bait. Obama, for example, fished for votes using “hope” and reeled in the presidency.

He then clubbed “hope” senseless by betraying his promises, continuing war and maintaining the domestic policies of the 1%. Hope was so thoroughly thrashed that a new messiah of hope was
needed to cure the Obama-fortified hopelessness.

Bernie’s version of hope is deeper than Obama’s shallow PR electoral campaign, but under capitalism real “hope” isn’t a simple recipe, and Bernie is missing some key ingredients, most notably “anti-imperialism,” which is exemplified in Bernie’s reactionary foreign policy positions…

more here: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/cooke

The Dynamic Influence of Past Patterns
on the Present

by S Brian Willson

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Cultural historians, philosophers, psychologists, essayists, and scientists caution us to seriously understand the past and its pervasive patterns. Sigmund Freud declared that in psychic life, nothing of what has been formed in the past ever disappears. Everything that has occurred is preserved in one way or another and, in fact, reappears under either favorable or unfavorable circumstances.

“The past never leaves us and the future is already here”. [Lewis Mumford].

“Wherever Western man went slavery, land robbery, lawlessness, culture-wrecking, and the outright extermination of both wild beasts and tame men went with him’. [Lewis Mumford].

“The West has ravaged the world for five hundred years, under the flag of master-slave theory which in our finest hour of hypocrisy was called ‘the white man’s burden’….

What sets the west apart is its persistence to stop at nothing”. [Hans Koning].

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. [George Santayana].

“Those who control the present,
control the past and those who
control the past control the future”. [George Orwell].

Rupert Sheldrake, biochemist, cell biologist and philosopher, describes a theory similar to psychologist Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness, or concept of a group mind, a kind of inherited
COLLECTIVE memory.

read more from S. Brian Willson:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/sbrianwillson