Nation Topics - Occupy Wall Street | The Nation

The protesters have put their faith in the last seemingly credible force in the world: each other.

In less than two weeks, Occupy Oakland went from its first public action to calling for a city-wide general strike.

A (self-) graduation speech for the Occupiers at Zuccotti Park.

Why do austerity measures remain so popular within the beltway while the overwhelming evidence in the rest of the country points to the fact that such measures increase unemployment and hinder economic growth?

It’s not hard to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip.

Those three decades of rampant upper-crust greed unleashed by the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s will be well marked by future historians recording the death of the American dream.

The Occupy movement is not a sexual revolution. But in a society organized for alienation, it has made human contact its sword and its shield.

The OWS movement is already a success for having raised the issues explored in the articles presented here.

Inspired by struggles overseas and in the past, the protests have brought the wealth gap back to the center of political debate.
 

“Is OWS diverse enough?” is not the right question. The real challenge is ensuring the movement has a racial justice agenda.