Nation Topics - Movements | The Nation

Those claiming Occupy has failed already forget what other social justice sucesses have taught us: change is slow. 

Occupy activists are moving debt from the personal to the political. 

While CIA agents that tortured and killed prisoners go unpunished, whistleblower John Kiriakou faces up to forty-five years in prison. 

One year after Occupy Wall Street first shook the world, what lies ahead for the movement?

Bereft of their big tent at Zuccotti Park, activists have found a unifying theme in debt.

If Occupy evolves into a debt resistance movement, the results could be explosive.

As last year’s occupations showed, cities need more places the public can call its own.

An Israeli court absolved the state of responsibility for her death. But the memory of this courageous activist for Palestinian rights will help advance her cause.

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?

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