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Occupy and the 99% Opposition (Occupy Wall Street, Election 2012)

Despite rumors of its demise, Occupy Wall Street has given rise to a flurry of actions targeting the 99 percent. What is this new phenomenon—and what role will it play in November?

Jeremy Brecher
The Shock Doctrine Goes to College (Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Higher Education)

At UC Davis and other institutions, student-led protests against austerity are met with thuggish riot cops and the criminalization of speech. 

Joshua Clover
Bill O'Reilly's Nonsense Zone (Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Society)

O’Reilly and his crew cooked up the wacky theory this week that the Institute for Policy Studies is serving as the clandestine headquarters for the Occupy movement.

John Cavanagh
James Dimon
Perhaps It's Jamie Dimon Who Needs a Psychiatrist (Occupy Wall Street, Economy)

JP Morgan’s CEO once complained that traders would need to see psychiatrists in order to comply with financial regulations. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea.

Alexis Goldstein
Protesters, Shareholders Neutralized as Bank of America CEO Collects Millions (Business, Occupy Wall Street)

When it comes to running Bank of America, shareholders don’t have much more influence than the demonstrators outside.

Richard (R.J.) Eskow
Bank of America protest
Showdown in Charlotte: Bank of America and Occupy (Occupy Wall Street, Activism, Economy)

The financial giant’s shareholder meeting will draw protesters on the outside—and disgruntled investors on the inside. 

Richard (R.J.) Eskow
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, Labor, Activism)

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

Francis Reynolds

Blogs

Feminism and the 99 Percent
StudentNation

Takeaways from a discussion on gender and the Occupy movement at Syracuse University.

November 14, 2011
Occupy Cal Stands Its Ground
StudentNation

A Berkeley undergraduate rebuts and rebukes the University of California Chancellor's criticism of Occupy Cal.

November 14, 2011
A Memoir of Glasnost
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, reflections on glasnost's fate.

November 14, 2011
Ari Berman: Karl Rove's Attack on Elizabeth Warren Backfired
Nation in the News

Karl Rove’s ad is a vicious attack on Warren full of distorted images of the Occupy movement protesters and ungrounded claims.

November 14, 2011
War, Torture, Assassination: Debate Confirms GOP's the Party of Cheney
John Nichols

When it comes to foreign policy, the Republicans who would be president are taking their cues from the former vice president on war, secrecy and, above all, torture.

November 13, 2011
Occupy the Home Front: Why Veterans Are Deploying With the 99 Percent
John Nichols

The United States has not learned enough about avoiding unwarranted wars. And if has not learned much about respecting the veterans of wars.

November 11, 2011
Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Protests
Dave Zirin

Two coasts and two riots: a frat riot and a cop riot. Each riot, an indelible mark of shame on their respective institutions.

November 10, 2011
Harvard Joins the Occupy Movement
StudentNation

On November 9, hundreds of Harvard students put down tents to begin an occupation of Harvard Yard.

November 10, 2011
Stanching the Flow of Corporate Dollars into Campaigns
Katrina vanden Heuvel

When our nation arrives at a level of corruption we cannot bear, we shouldn’t.

November 10, 2011
Labor Rights, Abortion Rights, Immigrant Rights, Voting Rights Prevail
John Nichols

In a rebuff to GOP extremism, voters reject Mississippi’s personhood amendment and Ohio’s attack on labor rights. 

November 9, 2011
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