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Rabblevox
23rd November 2011, 22:22
Hello all, Rabblevox here:

I'm in my 50's. I'm unemployed, live in subsidized housing, and have no health care.

I've been a life-long Democrat who grew up in a Roosevelt, Union, Kennedy, and Civil Rights family. Some of my earliest memories are walking the picket lines with my grandfather when I was 6, and helping my parents campaign for Bobby Kennedy when I was 8. And then seeing him killed.

I'm a vet who was at one time ready to give my life for my country.

I most recently worked at a radical consensus-based non-prof, but lost my job a year ago.

I'm not strictly anti-capitalism, or anti-democracy, I just think the way that both have been practiced have failed us.

I'm also not strictly pro-socialism, or pro-anarchy. I do think that some version of regionalized, de-centralized democratic socialism is the direction we should be pointing.

I still believe in voting, as something that can sometimes help, and at worst is a waste of time.

I also see no point in running 3rd party candidates, most of the time, it is just a waste of energy and resources. Maybe rarely there is a viable Socialist or Green candidate, but rarely.

I'm fiercely antifa and anti-corpratist, equally fiercely pro LGBTQ, women's, minority, and workers rights (in no order at all, either all people have basic rights, or no one really does).

I'm in 100% support of the Occupy movement, and have spent many days "boots on the ground" here in Portland.

I also believe, down to my bones, that everything will continue to get worse and more fucked-up for at least the next 50 years, maybe a lot longer. The best, maybe the only thing we can do at this point, is to try and plant the seeds that will carry on for 2 or 3 generations.

And I have no fucking clue right now what I do with the next chapter in my life, except I want it to fucking matter, and to leave a legacy that is truly for the greater good.

Somehow that wound up more personal than I intended. I'll let it stand.

Anyway, hello!!!! nice to meetcha!!!
R

ВАЛТЕР
23rd November 2011, 23:31
Hello, nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum. :)

NewLeft
24th November 2011, 02:41
Welcome fierce comrade! :D

OHumanista
26th November 2011, 20:26
Welcome comrade, glad to see more "occupy" protesters who are't afraid of the left.

Veovis
27th November 2011, 09:36
Howdy!

So what has been the extent of your participation in the Portland occupation? I visited the park for the first week or so, but honestly the whole thing felt less like a workers' movement and more like Woodstock. It didn't really hold my interest.

Paulappaul
27th November 2011, 10:04
Yo, I'm from Portland!

Os Cangaceiros
27th November 2011, 11:41
howdy pardner

The Dark Side of the Moon
27th November 2011, 11:44
Maine or Oregon?
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