Category Archives: Woody Broadnax

It’s in T. Oliver Country

The State Co-ordinating Committee of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon has announced that the Second State Nominating Convention of the Party will be held Saturday, 13 August 2016, in a little library building in the far Southeastern part of … Continue reading

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A Dispatch from the Front (Oregon State Prison)

When I was last — for some 100 days; they said they needed the time to determine if I understood the charges against me — in Multnomah County Jail, I met Shane Greene, cocaine addict. Well, meth too; lots of … Continue reading

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The Justice System

is really the Just Us system

Posted in Dan Handelman, Economics, Fascism, Gar Alperovitz, Inequality, Israel, Local government, Oakland, Oregon state government, Pacific Green Party, Police, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia, Spiritual life, U.S. Constitution, Uncategorized, US Senate, Woody Broadnax | Leave a comment

Here, Mayor Hales, Is Your Actual Record as Commissioner

From the review today by Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch of the most recent “Semi-annual Police Review Board Report”: The 14 cases encompass 37 allegations, leading the PRB to make 26 “Sustained” (out of policy) recommendations. However, only two of … Continue reading

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Do You Doubt We Have a Government of Delay?

Jim Redden, in a publication I have criticized: The final vote on the Portland street fee apparently will not happen on 14 January — not even just the advisory ballot measure Mayor Charlie Hales proposed for the 19 May 2015 … Continue reading

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Dear Joe Walsh

Dear Joe, The characteristic, if I may say so, reaction of Charlie Hales to problems came forward today. After three days of getting a little speech from Cindy, welcoming me “so long as I do not disrupt the work of … Continue reading

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Police Accountability Now

The air was blue with four-letter words beginning with “F” and ending in “k” around the house here when Your Intrepid Reporter broke the news to his elder son, in his late teens, that he, Michael Kepler Meo, would have … Continue reading

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Quantitative Assessment

I got 4.45 % of the vote in 2008. In 2010 I got a little over half that, some 2 percent. In 2012 Woody Broadnax ran as Green Party nominee in 3rd District, and he got 3.7 percent. And this … Continue reading

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Robert Michels on the Portland Divide

C’est dommage qu’aucun, ou presque, ne lit pas l’oeuvre de Robert Michels. Few people nowadays read the work of Robert Michels, unfortunately. “In this study”[Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchal Tendencies of Modern Democracy], says Wikipedia he demonstrated … Continue reading

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The Militarization of Emily

Longtime community utilities activist Scott Fernandez hosted a coalition meeting at the Presbyterian  [the Presbyterians, perhaps following up their historic leadership of the Emancipation movement in the United States some 170 years ago, have during the last 20 years distinguished … Continue reading

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