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More Than a Protest Movement (Occupy Wall Street)

The American people aren't looking for militants and vanguards, they want a full-service Occupy.

Todd Gitlin
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy! and Make Them Do It (Occupy Wall Street)

Elections and movements don’t proceed on separate tracks.

Frances Fox Piven
Horizontal Meets Vertical; Occupy Meets Establishment (Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

To grow, the Occupy movement will need to connect with tens of millions of ordinary Americans.

Stephen Lerner
Occupy Climate Change (Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Environmental Activism)

The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.

Jeremy Brecher
If Vaclav Havel Met Occupy's Human Mic... (Occupy Wall Street, History)

The words of the former president of the Czech Republic resonate with the problems Occupy confronts today.
 

Jonathan Schell
Occupying the Unexpected (Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

The heart of the movement desires a new, different society.

Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett
Occupy Wall Street
Paint the Other Cheek (Occupy Wall Street, Activism)

Debates about violence threaten to break apart the Occupy movement.

Nathan Schneider
Occupy and Unions
Labor and Occupy: A Match Made in... (Occupy Wall Street, Unions)

Despite occasional friction, unions and Occupy have found a way to live happily together.

Gabriel Thompson
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy the Media—and the Message (Occupy Wall Street, Media)

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

Astra Taylor
Occupy Wall Street protest in Boston
Revolution on the Radio (Movements, Occupy Wall Street, Media)

Community radio stations were key to spreading the message of the Occupy movement.

Zoë Carpenter

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