On Wednesday February 15 RevolutionTruth produced its first “flash panel” (produced in a matter of days rather than months) and its second panel on Occupy. After resounding upset over Chris Hedges’ piece on black bloc, we felt it important to provide a platform for a deep discussion on some difficult topics. Unfortunately, the discussion failed to unfold as we had hoped. We had made it very clear to all panelists…

It’s been an amazing few days in Portland, Oregon. For those of us who spend our lives dedicated to something like this, it is hard not to be consumed by everything Occupy. But Occupy has been brutally hard in this city. The GA process has been dysfunctional, not very democratic at all, not organized, and not representative of the larger community. It failed to pass a zero tolerance policy for…