Not all heroes wear capes, some wear face masks. A new Facebook page has appeared touting the handiwork of Portland Anarchist Road Care, an organization who claims to be taking “the state of the roads of PDX into the hands of the people.”

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From Portland Anarchist Road Care Facebook

After this year’s rash of winter storms, the abysmal state of roads in Portland is frustrating, and downright dangerous to cyclists and motorists. That’s how Portland Anarchist Road Care say they got their start. Here’s their mission statement from the “about” section on Facebook:

Because we believe in building community solutions to the issues we face, outside of the state.
Because society portrays anarchists as only breaking windows and blocking roads.
Because when faced with anarchism as a political theory, statest often ask “But who will fix the roads.”
Because the city of Portland refuses to adequately repair roads in a timely manner.

We are Portland Anarchist Road Care. We believe in community oriented direct action. We believe the state cares more about funding a militarized police force to suppress free speech than caring for and repairing the roads.

The city of Portland has shown gross negligence in its inadequate preventative care through this winter’s storms, and through its slow repair of potholes as weather has improved. Daily, this negligence is an active danger to cyclists and causes damage to people’s automobiles, and an increased risk of collision and bodily injury.

Portland Anarchist Road Care aims to mobilize crews throughout our city, in our neighborhoods, to patch our streets, build community, and continue to find solutions to community problems outside of the state.

The art of rebel road care isn’t new in Portland. Last year, a group called PDX Transformation took bike lane safety into their own hands, illegally “redistributing” cones to protect cyclists across the city.

Portland Anarchist Road Care says they’ve already patched five potholes on SE Salmon, between 37th and 39th and are monitoring the patches to make sure they hold up. It won’t be easy, but their hope is to turn the public perception of Anarchism from this…

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DOUG BROWN

to this!

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From Portland Anarchist Road Care Facebook

To report a pothole to the city, call the maintenance hotline at 503-823-1700, email pdxroads@portlandoregon.gov or use the PDXReporter smartphone app.

In a perpetual state of about to go HAM on these chilipeno chips. Former social media manager for @portlandmercury, trying not to harvest hate clicks.

9 replies on “Need a Pothole Fixed? Maybe a Portland Anarchist Can Help!”

  1. How do we report a pothole to the anarchists? And don’t tell me Facebook…you know “THEY” will put me on some list if they see me consorting with anarchists on Facebook.

  2. Can’t remember where I read this, but in another city some people would bring attention to a pothole by drawing a penis around it, sort of the way you draw an outline of a murder victim on the sidewalk. Might not work in Portland since we’re so jaded, but it would probably work in a city with more uptight christians.

  5. You poor fools. You all sound like, “someone keeps stealing my newspaper from my yard – must be them dang anarchists again!” You have no idea that while you make fun of people protesting, the real enemies of the state are loading their pockets with our infrastructure money. Even as conscious citizens are pitching in positive energy and acting on realistic solutions, you still think you’re so cool by calling them a bunch of dirty hippies. Go back to your triple latte and online Monopoly game. You have no grip on reality whatsoever.

  7. Anarchy is inherently capitalist in nature as people are free to trade without government interference. Making fun of them for some stereotype about mommy and daddy just highlights your statist brainwashing. As long as someone slaps the capitalism label on their corporate welfare you’ll let there commies do whatever they want.

  9. Its not, FYI. A lot of these actions have a really positive outcome. In my neighborhood there was a bus stop that was unsheltered for many years and the community kept asking the county to build a shelter because there was a lot of old folks caught waiting in the cold and the rain. The county did nothing for years until the community got together and built their own shelter, up to code and everything for only $800. The county was so embarrassed that within a week they had torn down the community-built shelter and built 5 new shelters along the Route. They charged the taxpayers $100,000, but at least we got their attention.

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