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Custom 1I like long walks on short piers.

Custom 2I enjoy joyful enjoyment.

Custom 3I am fond of fondling baby dinosaurs.

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Movies:

• Dogtown Redemption

(Directors: Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush)

TV:

• PRESSTV - Republicans seek Israel dominance in Mideast: Analyst

The Republican strategy is to “have the United States and perhaps US proxies like Israel to dominate the region,” David J. Myers said from Portland, Oregon.

Music

Radio

• Campus FM (Toulouse, France)
• KBOO (Portland, Oregon)
• KXLU (Los Angeles, California)
• KZSC (Santa Cruz, California)
• WZBC (Newton, Massachusetts)

Books

Currently Reading

• The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions

( Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright)

• Capital and Ideology

(Thomas Piketty | Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.)

• Freedom from the Known

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

• Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism

(Thích Nhất Hạnh)

• The Upanishads

(Translated by Eknath Easwaran.)

On My “To Read Next” Stack

• The Patrioteer

(Heinrich Mann)

Recently Read

• Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
• (Bill McGuire)

• Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States

(Bradley W. Hart)

• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

(Edward E. Baptist)

• Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

(Kristin Kobes Du Mez)

• Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy

(Julia Cagé | Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.)

• Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization

(Andrey Miroshnichenko)

• No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

(Ken Wilber)

• Economy of Permanence (A Quest for a Social Order Based on Non-Violence)

(J. C. Kumarappa)

• Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

(Kathleen Belew)

• Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

(John Gray)

• The Spook Who Sat by the Door

(Sam Greenlee)

• The Way of Zen

(Alan Watts)

• Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

(Mark Bray)

• Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

(Matt Stoller)

• The Mass Psychology of Fascism

(Wilhelm Reich | Translated by Vincent R. Carfagno.)

• The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

(Mariana Mazzucato)

• Chaos: Making a New Science

(James Gleick)

• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

(Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts)

• Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

(Asad Haider)

• The Tao of Zen

(Ray Grigg)

• The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice if Meditation

(Thích Nhất Hạnh | Translated by Mobi Ho.)

• The Murder of Christ: The Emotional Plague of Mankind

(Wilhelm Reich)

• The Idea of Justice

(Amartya Sen)

• The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

(Thomas Jefferson)

• One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

(Andrea Pitzer)

• Living Buddha, Living Christ

(Thích Nhất Hạnh)

• How Democracy Ends

(David Runciman)

• Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too]

(George Lakey)

• Empire of Cotton: A Global History

(Sven Beckert)

• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

(Nancy MacLean)

• The Power Elite

(C. Wright Mills)

• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

(Seth Stephens-Davidowitz)

• A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

(David Grossman | Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.)

• The Heretics: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science

(Will Storr)

• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

(Peter Wohlleben | Translated from the German by [Jane Billinghurst])

• Two Faces of Liberalism

(John Gray)

• The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

(Graeme Wood)

• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

(Jimmy Carter)

• Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future

(Raoul Martinez)

• The Making of Donald Trump

(David Cay Johnston)

• Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

(Editors: Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider)

• Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?

(Anthony D. Barnosky) and (Elizabeth A. Hadly)

• Data Science at the Command Line: Facing the Future with Time-Tested Tools

(Jeroen Janssens)

• God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

(John Dominic Crossan)

• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

(Charles A. Beard)

• The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

(David Talbot)

• The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

(Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn)

• Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

(David Harvey)

• The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

(Edited by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, and Liliana Bounegru)

• Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America

(Peter H. Wood)

• $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

(Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer)

• The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

(Gabriel Zucman | Translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan.)

• How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth

(Les Leopold)

• To Our Friends (Text)
• To Our Friends (Audio)

(The Invisible Committee)

• Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

(Robin Meyers)

• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

(Michel Foucault | Translated from the French by Richard Howard.)

• The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

(Michel Foucault | Translated from the French by A.M. Sheridan Smith.)

• Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition

(Huston Smith)

• Radically Catholic In the Age of Francis: An Anthology of Visions for the Future

(Daniel Schwindt)

• The Message: Why You Are Worth More Than All The Money In The World

(Karellen Stephens)

• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

(Johann Hari)

• Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

(Ken Wilber)

• The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

(A.J. Baime)

• A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality

(Ken Wilber)

• Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year

(Tavis Smiley | With David Ritz.)

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

(Naomi Klein)

• Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

(Saul Alinsky)

• Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir

(George Clinton with Ben Greenman)

• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

(Nick Flynn)

• The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

(Paul Gilding)

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century

(Thomas Piketty | Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.)

• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

(Michel Foucault | Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.)

• The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (Manifesto Series)

(Robert David Steele)

• Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture

(Marvin Harris)

• Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

(Julia Angwin)

• Humans of Northwest Academy

(Sofia Angelina Marcus-Myers)

• Moby-Dick

(Herman Melville)

• The Theory of the Leisure Class

(Thorstein Veblen)

• Posthistoric Man: An Inquiry

(Roderick Seidenberg)

• How The Rich Are Destroying the Earth

(Hervé Kempf | Translated from French.)

• The Arrogance of Humanism

(David W. Ehrenfeld)

• What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

(Tony Juniper)

• Slavery Today: A Groundwork Guide

(Kevin Bales & Becky Cornell)

• Notes from Underground

(Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

• The Mountain People

(Colin Turnbull)

I first read this book in 1982.

• Defying Hitler: A Memoir

(Sebastian Haffner)

• Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

(Jeff Schmidt)

• The World Without Us

(Alan Weisman)

• The Only Revolution

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

1. ️⃣ (Read it again.)

• Technology, War and Fascism: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1

(Herbert Marcuse)

• American Coup: How a Terrified Government Is Destroying the Constitution

(William Arkin)

• Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

(Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco)

• Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield

(Jeremy Scahill)

• Race Matters

(Cornel West)

• The Political Illusion

(Jacques Ellul | Translated from the French by Konrad Kellen.)

• Birth of the Chaordic Age

(Dee Hock)

• Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

(Jacques Ellul | Translated from the French by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner.)

• The Open Society and Its Enemies

(Karl R. Popper)

• What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism. A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment

(Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster)

• What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution

(Gar Alperovitz)

• Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth'

(Robert Parry)

• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

(Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan)

• Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

(Chalmers Johnson)

• Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope

(Chalmers Johnson)

• Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón

(George Cheney)

• Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

(Sven Lindqvist | Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.)

• Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

(Jack D. Forbes)

• Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

(Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann)

• Education and the Significance of Life

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

• The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources

(Michael T. Klare)

• Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America

(Charles H. Ferguson)

• Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

(Ivan Illich)

• Disabling Professions

(Ivan Illich, Irving Kenneth Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan, Harley Shaiken)

• Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

(John Restakis)

• The Souls of Black Folk

(W. E. B. Du Bois)

• The Origins of Totalitarianism

(Hannah Arendt)

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

(Michelle Alexander)

• The Only Revolution

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

• The Sky is the Limit--A Brief and Easy Explanation of Climate Change for Present and Future Voters

(Richard Albertson)

• Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

(George Monbiot)

• A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

(Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

• Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources

(Dilip Hiro)

• A People's History of the United States

(Howard Zinn)

• Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

(Sheldon S. Wolin)

• Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

• The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

(Andrew Feinstein)

• Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

(Dana Priest, William Arkin)

• American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work

(Nick Taylor)

• Toward a History of Needs

(Ivan Illich)

• Ivan Illich in Conversation: The Testament of Ivan Illich

(David Cayley)

• The Coming Insurrection

(The Invisible Committee | Translated from French.)

• The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp

(Wolfgang Sofsky | Translated from German by William Templer.)

• War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

(Chris Hedges)

• Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication

(John A. Livingston)

• The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

(Ivan Illich)

• The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

(Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate Pickett)

• Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

(Nicholas Shaxson)

• Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works

(Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux)

• Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects

(Dmitry Orlov)

Stalled

• The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

(Wendell Berry | Edited by Paul Kingsnorth.)

• Life and Fate

(Vasily Grossman | Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler.)

• The History of White People

(Nell Irvin Painter)

• Data Science For Dummies

(Lillian Pierson)

• The Violence of Financial Capitalism

(Christian Marazzi | Translated by Kristina Lebedeva and Jason Francis Mc Gimsey.)

• Campaigning Online and Winning: How LabourtStart's ActNOW Campaigns Are Making Unions Stronger

(Eric Lee & Edd Mustill)

• Free, Adult, Uncensored: The Living History of the Federal Theatre Project

(John O'Connor, Lorraine Brown)

• Education and the Rise of the Corporate State

(Joel H. Spring)

• Transnational Cooperation Among Labor Unions

(Michael E. Gordon, Lowell Turner)

• The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

(Barbara Wertheim Tuchman)

Favorite Books I've Read

• Humans of Northwest Academy

(Sofia Angelina Marcus-Myers)

• The Awakening of Intelligence

(Jiddu Krishnamurti)

• Testament

(Nino Ricci)

• Energy and Equity

(Ivan Illich)

• The Kolyma Tales

(Varlam Shalamov | Translated from Russian by John Glad.)

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

(Friedrich Nietzsche | Translated from German by Thomas Common.)

See Also

• Audio Books & Poetry (Internet Archive)

Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings! This library of audio books and poetry features digital recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, Maria Lectrix, and Internet Archive users.

Magazines:

• Mad

Outstanding Reports

• Capitalism: A Ghost Story

This is truly an astounding and revealing article by the great Arundhati Roy. Offers an in-depth glimpse in the kinds of privatized tyrannies raping and pillaging their way across the globe.

Snacks:

• Leafy greens
• Eggs
• Peanutbutter
• Quinoa

Drinks:

• Water
• Coffee
• Rice milk

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Personal information

Real nameDave Myers

LocationPortland,

HometownSanta Cruz,

BirthdaySeptember 22nd

OccupationBummery, sloth, ingratitude, shiftlessness.

Websiteshttp://www.organizedpower.org/

Places I have livedJail.

SchoolsPlay Skool.

About meI love all the little baby dinosaurs.

Drawing: Sofia Angelina

List of articles on this wiki I try to regularly contribute to.

• A Tale Of Two Totalitarians
• Cascade Policy Institute
• Cascadia
• Citizens Against the National Defense Authorization Act
• City Wiki
• Commons
• Community Assembly (Entire portal.)
• Foreclosure
• Help:Editing
• Local Post Offices
• Make Revolution Not War
• Occupy Portland
• Occupy Portland Labor Outreach Committee
• Organized Power
• Organized Suppression
• Peoples’ Assembly Organizing Committee
• People’s Budget Project
• Potluck in the Park
• Precious Daughters Messenger Van
• Pumpkin Patch
• Rally For Peace
• Represent The People

Talk:Represent The People

• Right 2 Dream Too
• Right 2 Survive
• Sisters Of The Road
• Sisters of the Road Café
• Trade Unions
• United States Custom House
• Voice of Portland
• WikiMaster

UserWiki:WikiMaster

• Worker-Owned Cooperatives
• World's Largest Frying Pan
• Yellow Bike Project

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BryceHarrington

posted 3075 days ago

Hi! The wiki is giving an error when saving edits that include urls. Looks like it's attempting to captcha via Asirra, however Asirra is down (see the last comment at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Asirra)

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Capnleela

posted 3538 days ago

Happy birthday! Hope you had a good weekend. http://bostondanceparty.deviantart.com/art/Birthday-Skeleton-162070160

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Sblockscribe

posted 3872 days ago

• • seeking use of your "Occupy Portland - First Day" photo

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Sblockscribe

posted 3872 days ago

Hi Dave, I'm a permissions assistant at Scribe, Inc., a publishing services company. One of our clients is seeking use of one of your "Occupy Portland - First Day" photo. Please e-mail me at sblock@scribenet.com for more information. Thanks! Sarah

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Kotra

posted 4234 days ago

hey Dave, would you be available to check out the issue where titles with periods don't work? I've been meaning to check it out for days but haven't had the time, and it seems pretty important. See this convo with Khris: http://portlandwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:UserBoard&user=Kotra&conv=Khris.soden

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Camior

posted 4263 days ago

Thanks, Dave, for fixing the slow down problems!

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Kotra

posted 4292 days ago

You have a stupid username!

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MarkDilley

posted 4312 days ago

Dave - I think this is a good foundation on talking to Unions about the dangers of these kinds of CMS solutions. Why wiki is better. http://www.adweek.com/news/press/trouble-back-ends-133917

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Kotra

posted 4393 days ago

The apocalypse is a lot more boring than I thought....

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