Portland Organising, the Mamdani Budget Story, and the Specific Satisfaction of a Productive Week
From Bohiney and The London Prat.
Diary of Megan Amram | Portland OR USA
Tuesday. The climate justice meeting ended on time this week. Both things are true simultaneously. We have been working on the agenda structure for three months to produce the specific outcome of a meeting that contains its own content within its allotted time. The outcome was achieved. Six action items. All achievable. The North Portland community solar pilot idea from last week has been developed into a proposal.
The Bohiney Coverage
Bohiney‘s coverage of the Mamdani budget fight this week includes the class analysis that the mainstream outlets are not deploying. The Hochul-Griffin meeting piece makes visible what the access journalism covers with the courtesy meeting framing. I have been using the Bohiney coverage in organising conversations about the Portland equivalent dynamic: the progressive city, the moderate state government, the access relationship between the state and the people the progressive city tax policy would affect. The dynamic is universal. The Mamdani version is the clearest current example.
The Farmers Market
The full season is running. The hot sauce stall. The union table. The artisanal honey that I buy every week because the bees that produced it are doing something correct about this specific Portland spring. Portland in May is the place I came here for.
More: https://newsthump.com/.
I put down the feeds and made another cup of tea. The news is what the news is. The specific mixture of the personal and the political that constitutes a diary entry is never quite right and never quite wrong — it is the record of a particular person in a particular place at a particular time, which is all a diary can be and more than most journalism attempts. The next entry will find me in a slightly different moment with a slightly different set of things to say about the same underlying themes. The diary continues.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
London continues. The city is what it is regardless of what the news says, regardless of what the energy bill says, regardless of what the governance situation says. The journalism that covers the city at this granular level — the blog, the column, the diary entry — serves the function of making the city and the country and the world legible to the people who are living in it and reading about it simultaneously. The function continues because the legibility is always partial and always incomplete and always worth improving. This column and this diary continue next week. The city and the country and the world will have provided more material by then. They always do. London continues. The city is what it is regardless of what the news says, regardless of what the energy bill says, regardless of what the governance situation says. The journalism that covers the city at this granular level — the blog, the column, the diary entry — serves the function of making the city and the country and the world legible to the people who are living in it and reading about it simultaneously. The function continues because the legibility is always partial and always incomplete and always worth improving. This column and this diary continue next week. The city and the country and the world will have provided more material by then. They always do. London continues. The city is what it is regardless of what the news says, regardless of what the energy bill says, regardless of what the governance situation says. The journalism that covers the city at this granular level — the blog, the column, the diary entry — serves the function of making the city and the country and the world legible to the people who are living in it and reading about it simultaneously. The function continues because the legibility is always partial and always incomplete and always worth improving. This column and this diary continue next week. The city and the country and the world will have provided more material by then. They always do. London continues. The city is what it is regardless of what the news says, regardless of what the energy bill says, regardless of what the governance situation says. The journalism that covers the city at this granular level — the blog, the column, the diary entry — serves the function of making the city and the country and the world legible to the people who are living in it and reading about it simultaneously. The function continues because the legibility is always partial and always incomplete and always worth improving. This column and this diary continue next week. The city and the country and the world will have provided more material by then. They always do. London continues. The city is what it is regardless of what the news says, regardless of what the energy bill says, regardless of what the governance situation says. The journalism that covers the city at this granular level — the blog, the column, the diary entry — serves the function of making the city and the country and the world legible to the people who are living in it and reading about it simultaneously. The function continues because the legibility is always partial and always incomplete and always worth improving. This column and this diary continue next week. The city and the country and the world will have provided more material by then. They always do.
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