If You Gaze For Long Into the CRC…
Last night, at the Waypost, the Oregon League of Conservation Voters held a forum called “Engaging priorities and engaging pints” to “break down the Oregon Conservation Networks priorities and other...
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Brand Portland — The Greenwashing Machine
I still live in Portland because of a vision that our unique culture could be animated into a real political force for an equitable and sustainable future. Despite my optimism, I couldn’t help but...
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Open Letter to ESCO Corporation
This letter was delivered to ESCO Corporation as a part of March 18’s Tour of Portland’s Worst Polluters Ride – Tar Sands Edition: TO: Calvin Collins, Corporate Officers, and ESCO Corporation...
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Rep. Blumenauer: Say No to Transcanada & the Portland Business Alliance
Representative Blumenauer, I stopped by your office yesterday to request, as a constituent, that you withdraw from the March 27th Portland Business Alliance members only luncheon, which is sponsored in...
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“Austerity is Insane”
Last night, the City of Portland held budget hearings at Montgomery Park. Several hundred people attended; so many that testimony had to be limited to a minute. There was incredible energy in the room...
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From Resilience to #Blockupy and Back Again
At the beginning of June, I found myself in Germany. The formal purpose of the trip was to attend a congress in Bonn called Resilient Cities, which, since 2010, annually brings together a wide swath of...
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Portland to DEQ: “NO COAL”
Rather than write my own account of the DEQ’s Coyote Island coal export terminal draft permit hearings, I’m going to embed my favorite videos of community members who spoke against the permits inside...
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Capitalism Sucks… All Your Time and Energy
Note: I started work on this article two months ago, but I was too busy enjoying life to finish it until now. Work, as a moral imperative, seems to function a lot like the panopticon: you discipline...
View ArticleCall for Essays: What is Portland?
To begin the new year, Mismanaging Perception is issuing a call for essays to answer the question “What is Portland?” This call is primarily motivated by sense of disenchantment that has been...
View ArticleSnow Anarchy is the Best!
If, as Michel Foucault tells us in Discipline and Punish, rulers dream of a state of plague in order to exercise full emergency powers over society, what state of affairs can the anti-coercive among us...
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