Jill Stein Stands with Standing Rock
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Neither Hillary nor Trump will do. Lesser evilism predictably produces a pair of candidates each cycle who are both worse than was the more evil candidate last time. This cannot go on forever, and has already gone too far. We need a nonviolent movement to reform our election system — something not done through elections. But there are plenty of good candidates, such as Jill Stein, to check or write in. We should vote for those good candidates and get right back to work on improving the world.” This is the essence of the problem. Whichever of these two you were to vote for, you’d get wars, nasty policies toward immigrants, plutocratic policies toward wealth, and destructive policies toward the natural environment — barring the arising of a powerful popular movement to bring the government under control. We cannot continue unprovoked American aggression for profit. Everyday people are the only ones who can stop this insanity. We may not be in the Mill
Has the time come for creating a public bank in Portland?
The Portland Alliance: Behind the Headlines: Breaking News Page! http://www.theportlandalliance.org/breakingnews BREAKING NEWS AT THE ALLIANCE Wednesday, February 24 at 7 PM - 9 PM in PST First Unitarian Church, SW 12th and Salmon, Portland OR Has the time come for creating a public bank in Portland? Too-Big-To-Fail banks are tied to high risk speculative investing for the benefit of the bank's major stock holders. Currently, the city's deposits are held by private banking establishments. What could happen if, instead of supporting those banks via our city's use of those banks, we created a locally owned public bank to cycle city revenues back into the local economy? How much additional revenue from such a
February 2016 Portland Alliance
February 2016 Portland Alliance February 8, 2016 The Portland Alliance Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981 Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 February 2016 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February 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 sur- rounding his campaign, an bursting the “hope” bubble can produce a fierce backlash. The Sanders “hope” explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place. 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