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Occupy Chicago

Will Occupy Embrace Nonviolence?

The Occupy movement has been a seedbed of creativity. Now it needs to declare its values.

Todd Gitlin

Transpartisan Politics on the Plains
The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?
Madeline Ostrander
Posted 02/13/2012
Wisconsin Rises Up Against Walker
What does democracy look like? Try a grassroots campaign organized by ordinary citizens to recall their union-busting governor.
John Nichols
Posted 02/13/2012
New Hope for New Haven, Connecticut
A progressive labor slate has won a historic legislative victory, overturning the traditional Democratic machine.
Paul Bass
Posted 02/13/2012

Articles

News and Features

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A Walmart employee
Labor Takes Aim at Walmart—Again (Labor Organizing and Activism, Activism, Labor)

Organizers have found a new approach to promoting workers’ rights at the retail giant. And it seems to be working.

Spencer Woodman
Grassroots Democracy in Venezuela (Activism, World)

One town’s participatory budget has attracted activists and officials from around the world.

Gabriel Hetland
The 99 percent movement
The Making of the 99% (Class, Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

With the Occupy movement, what started as a diffuse protest against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.

Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
Compassion Is Our New Currency (Global Warming and Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Activism, World)

Notes on 2011’s preoccupied hearts and minds.

Rebecca Solnit
Poverty in Nebraska
A Proud, Angry Poor (Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Poverty)

What the Occupy movement could do for poor people—and vice versa.

Frances Fox Piven

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