Emergency Occupy Portland General Assembly

holy set of rules 2 follow

i dont see any reason why i would want to support this bunch-of-rules errr.. i mean occupy

in fact the more i think about this i question why anybody would support your call out?

I cautiously give my support. Cautiously because I'm not sure about the exclusion of radical feminists?

I've known some women who identify as such who use "patriarchy" to describe all oppression and otherwise are reasonable. I don't understand why these women should be excluded. But then there's the blame men for everything crowd; excluding them I understand.

I suppose the point is to exclude an extreme radical feminist agenda, which is also understandable. It is about the 99%, not the 55%.

Now's the time for someone to come along and lambaste me for a small unintentional inaccuracy. Sigh.

There sure are a lot of people prohibited by the 'We.'
So, just who are the ones making these 'democratic' decisions?
There are a lot of revolutionaries who are veterans, just look at the Black Panthers.
And they didn't just talk!

In the call out it was specifically worded "No radical feminists and cissexists allowed". I think the author/s of this piece may be referring to an obscure tendency of second wave feminists, that often describe themselves as "radical feminists" or "radfems", that are openly, and sometimes violently, opposed to transgendered and non cis-sexual people. That is probably what they are referring to, but I do agree that is confusing because there are many feminists who are not anti-trans or cis-sexist who will often describe themselves as radical feminists in a colloquial sense. The statement should have just made it clear that no transphobic or cis-sexist behavior will be welcome and left out the obscure references to radfem.

I'm 5'9". I wonder if I'm in or out.

Kevin:

5'9" is pretty tall. Statistics prove that tall people are more successful in society, and they disproportionately occupy the positions of power and authority. Your stature might intimidate some people at the Occupy site, thus violating their "safe space", and as you may know, the definitions of "intimidation" and "safe space" are entirely up to the "offended" party.

We recommend that, instead of Occupy, you join a basketball team, or you might apply for the Police Academy.

"Monday" & "February 24" don't go together, at least not this year.

Here at Portland's Federal Justice Center, we support (in more ways than you may imagine) the divisive gender identity politics in the Occupy movement, and in all progressive and anti-Establishmentarian movements. As long as you think that gender identity issues are the most important item in the political arena, and allow gender identity issues to disrupt your organizing, you will remain ineffective at accomplishing anything truly important.

If you think that integrating the US Military for gays and lesbians is an important issue, we applaud you. Anything that keeps your attention off the US Military aggression in service of the wealthy elitist Establishment is what we hope to see from you. Keep up the good work, Occupy. That goes for you, too, Antifa.

I guess I don't get your point. You wrote: "we support (in more ways than you may imagine) the divisive gender identity politics in the Occupy movement," followed by "As long as you think that gender identity issues are the most important item in the political arena, and allow gender identity issues to disrupt your organizing, you will remain ineffective at accomplishing anything truly important. "

I hope there is intentional irony here. Otherwise it's confusing.

I see you mention no Christians. Are Jews and Muslims allowed?

but, Jesus was the first to say: "Occupy til I return". He said to share with the poor. He is going to kick ass on the evil elite who cause so much mayhem on the vulnerable masses of poor.... He inspires every person who ever had a Good inspiration to do anything . you really think you wanna leave Him out? where good is not welcome, evil will invade. so maybe that is why you are only inviting a few, it is meant to fail.