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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

Power Shift 09
StudentNation

In two weeks students will lead the largest day of lobbying on climate change in US history.

February 16, 2009
Power Shift 2009
StudentNation

Ten thousand young activists are planning to underscore the urgency of dramatic action on climate change.

November 25, 2008
Whither Capital Punishment
StudentNation

As a seven-month national moratorium on executions comes to an end, where does the student movement against the death penalty go?

September 9, 2008
Curbing Corporate America
The Notion

Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and spend millions of dollars courting members of Congress to win legislative favors. The presidential election in '08 promises to be the priciest in history, largely underwritten by big business and top dollar donors.

June 8, 2007