Category Archives: Barbara Ellis

The Era of Good Feeling

(The title is ironic) Just as Donald Trump, now that he is going down to a well-earned resounding defeat, talks about being “unshackled,” so now that Your Intrepid Reporter is convicted of violating a restraining order taken out against him … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Brian Willson, Economics, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Global, Inequality, Jim Robison, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Constitution, Uncategorized, US Senate, War | Leave a comment

This is how the System Rejects Real Change

Michael hi this is Emma I am just writing to let you know that a motion has been made to be voted on by the SCC to expel you from the Pacific Green Party. What this would mean is that … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Brian Willson, Cameron Whitten, Dan Handelman, Diffeomorphisms on a manifold, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Floy Jones, Free Speech, Friendship, Global, Healthcare, Inequality, Israel, Jamie Partridge, John Schweibert, Local government, Marblehead, Marxism, Mathematics, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Paul Forman, Paul Loney, Permaculture, Police, Reservoirs, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia, Scott Fernandez, Scott Green, Seth Woolley, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, Uncategorized, Vali Balint, War | 2 Comments

Minutes of meeting of 24 March, preceded by German poem

das ungeordnete Kafe   es gibt zwei Mädchen am nächsten Tisch hinter Ladentisch zwei mehr eto vsyo und ich. nemets   D. Westerlund and C. Miller joined by H. Soles, meeting called to order on time, at 6:30. The whole … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Dan Handelman, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Global, Inequality, Israel, Local government, Pacific Green Party, Police, Seth Woolley, U.S. Constitution, War | Leave a comment

Neighboring Jurisdiction Screws Jill Stein

Longtime readers of this blog may recall that I received the link to Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News [the latest issue, dated 1 March, arrived today] from a retiring woman, not before making a pledge of eternal silence as to her … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Don Gavitte, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Free Speech, Gar Alperovitz, Global, Inequality, Lloyd Marbet, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Scott Green, Seth Woolley, U.S. Constitution | Leave a comment

Charlotte in Massachusetts

Four Green Party members gathered around a table at Random Order cafe on NE Alberta in Portland Thursday night, Dave Westerlund, Charlotte Miller, Herschel Soles and Your Intrepid Reporter.  The Cascadia Chapter was having its weekly meeting.  The first two … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Economics, Education, Elections, Friendship, Marblehead, Mark Seibold, Pacific Green Party, Seidel, Spiritual life, Uncategorized, War | Leave a comment

This Is What Bush Should Have Done

I see from the London conservative newspaper The Telegraph, that one Khalid al-Fawwaz has been convicted after a jury trial in New York City, of providing substantial material support for the al-Quaeda network that destroyed the World Trade Center and … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Brian Willson, Elections, Empire, Global, Healthcare, Inequality, Pacific Green Party, Seth Woolley, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, US Senate, War | Leave a comment

Dear Congressman Blumenauer

I read the side-by-side (or perhaps, more accurately, the one-behind-the-other) interviews of your Self and Congressman DeFazio [hey — an Italian name, ya think?] in this week’s tabloid Willamette Week [the pejorative noun was intentional: I have many and manifest … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Economics, Elections, Empire, Inequality, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Permaculture, Seth Woolley, US Senate | Leave a comment

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Your Intrepid Reporter was arrested today (so, what else is new?) at the Starbucks on Pioneer Courthouse Square. The arresting officer a blue beach ball named Palmiter, was not inclined to arrest: he put me under detention and agreed that … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Brian Willson, Cameron Whitten, Dan Handelman, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Free Speech, Friendship, Gar Alperovitz, Inequality, John Schweibert, Local government, Marxism, Pacific Green Party, Reservoirs, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution | Leave a comment

How You Can Help

As Vali Balint so frequently explained to me, in the 80s of the last century, while I lived in Oakland, California, and was busy translating Karl Marx’s mathematical manuscripts from the original German into English for the first time, Even … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Elections, Empire, Fascism, Free Speech, Friendship, Global, Healthcare, Inequality, Israel, Lloyd Marbet, Local government, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Permaculture, Police, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, US Senate, Vali Balint | Leave a comment

Trinh Dinh

“Mister Meo,” intoned the judge this morning, after a trial of Your Intrepid Reporter had drawn to a close in Court Room 216 of the so-called Multnomah County Courthouse on the WellNoNotthe Park Blocks in the Judicial System quarter of … Continue reading

Posted in Barbara Ellis, Bradley Manning, Brian Willson, Education, Fascism, Inequality, John Schweibert, Lloyd Marbet | Leave a comment