Liberty. It’s a simple idea, but it’s also the linchpin of a complex system of values and practices: justice, prosperity, responsibility, toleration, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They’re called libertarians.
In what appears to have been a coordinated action Thursday evening,
Occupy protesters in Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California staged
protests and have occupied the offices of Obama campaign headquarters in
both locations.
