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But Hayes wasn't just an armchair revolutionary. He practiced what he preached, working to organize migrant farm workers and living in Nicaragua, where he helped supply guns to the Sandinista rebels. A native Oregonian raised in Oak Ridge, he became a Portland icon. Hayes was guru to an assortment of anarchists and libertarians, gun nuts and pot smokers, aging flower children and youthful street punks. In tribute to Hayes, we give the roguish rebel the last word, taken from a 1994 interview with WW: "We live in a kakistocracy--it's in the dictionary, look it up. Government by the worst. The only appropriate metaphor is a cesspool. The big ones go to the top. And the bigger they are, the faster they rise." |
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