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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

Quebec Students Vote on Whether to Continue Strike
Allison Kilkenny

Students’ enthusiasm for the strike might be wavering only a few months ahead of provincial elections.

August 14, 2012
Activists Bring Protest to Saks Fifth Avenue, Yo Soy 132 Does Not Endorse Event
Allison Kilkenny

Activists bring anti-monopolization protest to Saks Fifth Avenue, Yo Soy 132 does not endorse event.

 

August 8, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Protests the World's Richest Man
Allison Kilkenny

Occupy Wall Street protesters, Two Countries One Voice protest the world's richest man

August 7, 2012
The Glaring Problem With National Starbucks Appreciation Day
Cord Jefferson

Since when did giving millions of dollars to already wealthy corporations become a protest?

August 4, 2012
Peter Kornbluh: WikiLeaks in Latin America
Nation in the News

WikiLeaks revealed a Latin America dominated by American intervention and meddling. 

August 3, 2012
Burlington Riot Police Fire Pepper Spray, Projectiles at Protesters
Allison Kilkenny

Police in Burlington violently suppress an environmental protest by firing pepper spray and projectiles at activists.

July 30, 2012
Occupy and the Police in Philadelphia
StudentNation

This mini-documentary explores the internal conflict over police confrontation at the Occupy National Gathering, particularly as it relates to the future of the movement.

July 26, 2012
Alexander Cockburn and the Radical Power of the Word
John Nichols

Alex, who has died at the age of 71, believed to the end in the necessity of information and insight as essential elements of an activism that would begin the world over again.

July 21, 2012
Will Britain's Libor Scandal Finally Force Real Bank Reform in the US?
John Nichols

The head of the Bank of England now says bankers’ lies about interest rates “meet my definition of fraud.” Will US officials finally crack down?

July 17, 2012
Occupy Hong Kong May Be in Its Last Days
Allison Kilkenny

Long after the Occupy camps at Zuccotti Park in Manhatttan and St. Paul's Cathedral and Finsbury Park in London were evicted or decamped, an encampment in an unlikely location still exists defiantly.

July 17, 2012