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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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John Nichols: How to Build a Movement (Movements, Society)

What qualities and characteristics can help create a real movement?

Francis Reynolds
Gayatri Spivak: The Long and Short of Capitalism’s Demise (Occupy Wall Street, Social Justice, Activism)

Agitating for change beyond the general strike.

Francis Reynolds
May Day 2012, New York City (Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

Footage from New York City's massive May Day protests.

Francis Reynolds
A Q&A With Harry Kelber: 'Working People Have to Be Involved in Their Own Fate' (Occupy Wall Street, Labor Organizing and Activism, Activism)

Lessons from over eight decades of labor activism.

Josh Eidelson
Reimagining the General Strike [VIDEO] (Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Labor)

The general strike was once a powerful tactic for labor. Can it be revived?

Francis Reynolds
May Day
Ten Things to Support Occupy on May Day—and Beyond (Occupy Wall Street, Labor)

 Plug into the spirit Occupy on May Day and throughout the spring.

The Nation
General Strike
Occupy Activists Resurrect May Day for Americans (Occupy Wall Street, Labor)

Outside the US, May 1 is international workers’ day. Unions, immigrant activists and Occupiers are now resurrecting May Day for Americans. 

Peter Dreier
Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist (Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

Where does the idea of catastrophic change come from?

Francis Reynolds
David Stovall: What Can Hip Hop Teach Us About the World? (Occupy Wall Street, Music, Society)

Hip hop and the Occupy movement have even more in common than you might think.

On The Earth Productions
Marina Sitrin: Imagining a New General Strike (Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Labor, Society)

What are some alternative tactics to create a different, more powerful general strike?

Francis Reynolds

Blogs

Naomi Klein: Could Superstorm Sandy Create Space for Progressive Reform?
Nation in the News

In the wake of the superstorm, we need to involve communities—not corporations—in reconstruction efforts. 

November 15, 2012
Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates
Voting Rights Watch

One week after Obama’s re-election, the work of social and economic justice movements is as clear as ever. 

November 13, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy Up Debt to Abolish It
Allison Kilkenny

The Strike Debt movement is planning a Rolling Jubilee—a bailout of the people, by the people. 

November 12, 2012
Occupy Sandy Efforts Highlight Need for Solidarity, Not Charity
Allison Kilkenny

Occupy Sandy, the grassroots relief effort started by Occupy Wall Street, has been helping individuals when traditional aid groups and organizations have failed to show up.

November 5, 2012
Goldman Sachs Building Is Bright, but Occupy Shines
Laura Flanders

A report from Downtown Manhattan, and a Hurricane Sandy volunteer.

November 1, 2012
Occupy Sandy: Occupy Wall Street Helps Storm Victims
Allison Kilkenny

Occupy Wall Street and 350.org have teamed up with Recovers.org, a disaster relief platform, to help coordinate response to Hurricane Sandy.

October 31, 2012
John Lennon and George McGovern: Another Side of the 1972 Campaign
Jon Wiener

The McGovern campaign marked a turning point in many lives, including John Lennon’s.

October 21, 2012
Occupy Atlanta Joins Forces With Police to Save Retired Detective's Home
Allison Kilkenny

Occupy Our Homes ATL is forging an unlikely partnership in an effort to stop foreclosures.  

October 9, 2012
Spain on the Brink
Peter Rothberg

This short film tells the story of why so many people took to the streets in Madrid and follows these events as they unfolded. 

October 1, 2012
Occupy DC Plans to Protest on K Street for First Anniversary
Allison Kilkenny

Also, an Illinois judge rules the mass arrest of Occupy Chicago protesters is unconstitutional.

October 1, 2012