Aren't there a lot of subsidized low-income apartments in The Pearl? I'm not a huge fan of the neighborhood but I don't think it is the epitome of the problem. If they marched on City Hall they would quickly lose the support of the local government and I guess it takes too much energy to climb up the West Hills. Marching on a Bank of America building would be like screaming at the tentacle of an octopus. Go to DC folks. Limit the power that politicians can sell to corporations. If influence wasn't for sale, they wouldn't be able to buy it.

you could go to DC and beg for change, or you could stay right here and make it happen.
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This is not an official, General Assembly approved release, but I find it is largely inline with the views and desires of many GA participants.

Cameron Whitten is an Occupy Portland volunteer in contact with other media and communication volunteers. He has been organizing various actions for today, October 29—including Jamison Square.

Lazy lazy lazy, Cameron. The Yards, The Sitka, Lovejoy Station, Station Place Tower, Pearl Court & The Ramona are all affordable / subsidized. The latter was completed in the last year, and caters specifically to families. It's a weird problem to have: because these buildings don't look like people's preconceived notions of low income housing, the Pearl doesn't get credit for having them.

And let's be real here. Even though most of the rent charged in the Pearl is beyond what I or most of my friends could currently afford, it's not even at a level that would make people from San Francisco or New York blink. I don't doubt that the average resident has a higher income than the median for the Portland metro area, but it's hardly like every single person in the area is Mr Monopoly.

Ambrown - yes.

This is the we-don't-understand-irony (or hypocrisy) crowd.

Sam and Randy have their support - yet are the ones cutting the deals with developers for the fake New York/Bumtown that hasn't helped most of us.

I would also prefer that people take direct action in their communities instead of appealing to Washington for help. People in Portland cooperate more or less spontaneously all the time. We're blessed to have a large group of young, educated, motivated people here, with more arriving every day. People may joke about Portland being a place where young people go to retire but I also see many of these people starting small businesses, volunteering their time, working for non-profits, etc.

I like the idea of forming alternative institutions to circumvent Wall St. and Pennsylvania Ave. That is difficult when so much of the money, time, energy, and other resources are artificially directed to corporations and governments through taxation and essentially fraudulent investment schemes, the latter of which are contingent upon the cooperation of governments. I suppose one might apply the old adage to think globally and act locally. The Occupy movement has definitely shown some ability to demonstrate an alternative to the status quo, I just think they are focusing too much on a symptoms (unemployment, wages, income disparity, tax inequities, etc.) than the disease. I also happen to disagree with what the disease is and what the prescription would be. I want accountability, but I don't see more government as the way to achieve that, as the government, in my view, actually created the circumstances leading to this problem. There could be arguments forever about that, so for now I'm content with trying to find some common ground. Punish those responsible for fraud. Start looking for fraud and you will trace it back to the source: The Man.

It should also be noted that the Tea Party are inconsistent as well. They also have a right to be angry about many things, and have many things in common with the Occupy movement, but they are inconsistent as well. The underlying problem is that people believe that the ends justify the means, when the means happen to someone else. We need to stop resorting to force and fraud to get what we want. If the Right stops taxing people to support the military industrial complex, perhaps there will be enough money left over that the Left won't feel the need to tax more for healthcare, education, etc. We've been fighting over who is going to blink first, basically. The politicians and corporate interests are the only winners. Well, and the churches.

Let's get those richers, take their money!

Since it's Halloween, we should all dress up like ghosts. Really put a scare in those richers!

Pretty sure it was intentional that they didn't simply say "the center of wealth and disparity." Epicenter can be used metaphorically to describe a geographical location of this or that.

the pearl is lame, but not worthy of a serious march. i am sorry that the Movement would spend 20 minutes on B of A and as much or more on a Portland shopping district. And maccoinnich is right- Pearl inhabitants are almost certainly not primarily the financials executives who are the true rich-rich-rich. How misguided.

i did not really mean to write "almost certainly not primarily". Jesus. you know what i mean.

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