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On Saturday, tomorrow night, November 12, one minute past midnight, which makes it Sunday, November 13, Mayor Sam Adams will have Portland police evict Occupy Portland's tent city from the public parks. Mostly, Portland's corporate media has done its best to discredit the movement. Corporate media falsely tries to portray Portland's patriots as marginal homeless people with a violent drug bent.
Occupy Portland says it will not leave.
I plan to attend. Occupy Portland wants military veterans to support them on the front line. I am an Army veteran, I do not particularly want to get arrested, although I strongly believe in the Occupy movement. Does that make me a coward?
In Portland, the colorful sprawl of tents that clash in understated human scale, directly across from the United States Federal Building, and corporate concrete colossus, is a masterpiece of impressionism and hope. Youthful hope.
Although of a liberal bent, Adams seems to be capitulating, due to his corporate minions, into just another heartless and cowardly bureaucrat and self-serving corporate wonk. He will surely keep his pension. However, I have to say that Portland, up to now, has been supportive of Occupy, in that they have held back the rubber bullets. But corporate corrosion is a constant concern and self-serving, chemo-petrol reality.
Another reason I do not want to get arrested is that I have to go to a fisherman's wake for my good friend and musician, who recently passed away, Kip Wolf, at the Bay Haven Inn, in Newport, on the Oregon coast, on Sunday. But we shall see.
Kip was a true gypsy, and sings for coastal fishermen, about as 99% as you can get.
I include a video that I shot of him performing, no doubt, the greatest fishing song ever, at the Bay Haven Inn. Perhaps his spirit will help.
