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The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can’t—work alongside established social movements.

A DOJ probe into the mental health program at a medium security prison could put solitary confinement on trial.

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

Law enforcement appears to be regularly sending subpoenas to social media companies. This time, the target found out about it.

A lack of local democracy and equal protection has led to the collapse of the American criminal justice system.

Reporting on protests is no easy job—just ask the thirty-six reporters arrested while covering the Occupy movement. Do reporters have a right to gather the news?

Brutality is an old problem, one that has worsened under the government of Luis Fortuño.

SlutWalk, the anti–sexual violence march sweeping the globe, comes to New York City this weekend. Can the spectacle grow into an effective, multiracial movement?

“If I knew then what I know now, Troy Davis would not be on death row,” says one of the jurors in his case. Davis is scheduled to die on September 21.

Troy Davis is one of thousands who face execution for crimes they may not have committed.