Occupy Offshoots Return to Highlight Student Tuition Hikes, Food Sovereignty Occupy Offshoots Return to Highlight Student Tuition Hikes, Food Sovereignty
This week, the movement experienced a cross-country resurgence. What’s next?
May 14, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Occupy the Pipeline: Fracking Threat Comes to NYC Occupy the Pipeline: Fracking Threat Comes to NYC
Activists are opposing the construction of a pipeline beneath New York City that will carry the controversial highly pressurized gas.
May 6, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
May Day in NYC: Youth and Immigrant Rights Activists Demand Reform May Day in NYC: Youth and Immigrant Rights Activists Demand Reform
This year’s march was led by immigrant and youth activists pressing for long-awaited justice.
May 2, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Immigrant Rights Groups, Labor, Occupy Plan May Day Protests Immigrant Rights Groups, Labor, Occupy Plan May Day Protests
The upcoming protests have already attracted the attention of authorities—including the FBI.
Apr 29, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Elites May Finally Realize Austerity Isn’t the Answer Elites May Finally Realize Austerity Isn’t the Answer
After a series of events this week, is the austerity consensus unraveling?
Apr 22, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Congress Refuses to Allow USPS to Fix Its Budget Woes Congress Refuses to Allow USPS to Fix Its Budget Woes
Why? Because the Postal Service caters primarily to the poor.
Apr 15, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
As Boston Ends Desegregation Busing, Students Face New Inequities As Boston Ends Desegregation Busing, Students Face New Inequities
Without a mechanism to ensure equality of access in all Boston communities, it's inevitable that wealthier communities will have access to the good schools.
Apr 8, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Thousands Protest the UK Government’s Brutal Austerity Thousands Protest the UK Government’s Brutal Austerity
Britain's worst off are getting hit harder today than at the height of Thatcherism in 1983. The Tory's regressive "bedroom tax" only makes thing worse.
Apr 1, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Security Staff Barricade Chicago Board of Education in Anticipation of Mass Rally Security Staff Barricade Chicago Board of Education in Anticipation of Mass Rally
As Chicago Public Schools plans mass school closings, its interests lie in public perception—not facilitating a space for students, parents and activists to defend their scho...
Mar 27, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Strike Debt Abolishes $1.1 Million of Medical Debt Strike Debt Abolishes $1.1 Million of Medical Debt
Sixty-two percent of all bankruptcies are due to medical debt—and Occupy activists aren’t letting the medical-industrial complex get away with it.
Mar 22, 2013 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny