Keith interviews Attack The System co-editor Vince about Portland Oregon’s 100 plus nights of protest. Vince lives in Portland and provides first hand accounts and context for the uprising

Discussion includes:

• 100 nights of protests in Portland


• Scope of the protests and effect on the city


• Targets of the protest


• Trump’s switch to a “Law & Order” re-election campaign


• Trump’s fixation on Portland and the presence of Federal Police


• Shooting of Portlanders with “less than lethal” munitions and use of Geneva Convention banned weapons


• Participation of the Lumpenproletariat in the uprising


• Effect of the pandemic on the uprising


• “Disappearing” protesters by the police


• Conflict between right-wing groups and anti-fascists


• Shooting of Aaron Danielson by self proclaimed anti-fascist Michael Reinoehl, who was killed by police


• Failure of Democrats and progressives to address police brutality in liberal cities



• Diversity of the protest movement


• Aims of the protest movement and possible outcomes


• The expansion of the police state as a domestic standing army


• Looting and targeting of specific buildings


• Mutual aid networks sustaining the protest, autonomous zones and neighborhood level anarchism