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Occupying the SEC for a Stronger Volcker Rule

In a public comment to the SEC, an Occupy working group details troubling loopholes in the Volcker Rule, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.

Rachel Signer

Ten Things You Can Do to Sustain the Occupy Movement »
Why the Media Love the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks
As Occupy heads into the spring, the movement’s initial honeymoon phase is coming to a close.
Rebecca Solnit
Posted Feb 21, 2012
Will Occupy Embrace Nonviolence?
The Occupy movement has been a seedbed of creativity. Now it needs to declare its values.
Todd Gitlin
Posted Feb 8, 2012
An Iraq Vet's Journey From Wall Street to OWS
Zuccotti Park was not my first occupation. But it showed me the need to live up to our values.
Derek McGee
Posted Jan 25, 2012

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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
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Occupy Wall Street protesters
Thank You, Anarchists (Occupy Wall Street)

With their emphasis on participatory direct democracy, the anarchists behind Occupy Wall Street have changed the very idea of what politics could be.

Nathan Schneider
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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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President Barack Obama
Obama Gets Occupied (Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street)

The president has started talking like a populist. It took the Occupy movement to make him do it.

The Editors
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Riot police in Oakland, California
Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street (Occupy Wall Street, Police and Law Enforcement)

As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized.

Norm Stamper
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