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LS/Ustream articles and videos. Another Occupy Portland Sitdown with Mayor Sam Adams. Mayor Sam Adams sat down with Occupy Portland's nearly-always-on livestream crew this morning for a wide-ranging chat about, among other things, Adams' own plans to advance the Occupy movement's national goals, his thoughts about what's worked and what hasn't with police actions, and a discussion about camping and what he'd have done differently.
Adams first asked Occupy to help him hone two federal lobbying proposals he has out for public comment: a bid to persuade the feds to end corporate personhood and clamp down on corporate campaign spending, and another item that puts Portland on record as demanding that money spent on overseas wars be spent on starved domestic programs instead. "We have the most corrupt federal election under way since money became big in politics," the mayor said.
"The fact that hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate spending can happen without a fingerprint... I don't think our forefathers and foremothers ever intended that. " I was at the port.