OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity! OWS to Supercommittee: Accountability, Not Austerity!
As the Congressional budget supercommittee deliberates, fiscal hawks are calling for “tough choices.” The 99 percent are demanding economic justice.
Oct 19, 2011 / The Editors
Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Is Here Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Is Here
Its power lies not in any specific demands, endorsements or alliances but in its direct appeal to the hearts and minds of the population at large.
Oct 19, 2011 / Jonathan Schell
Noted. Noted.
Liza Featherstone on Walmart’s efforts to “empower” women, Collier Meyerson on the inconvenient truth behind Waiting for “Superman” and Henri Picciotto on censorship by the Jewish ...
Oct 19, 2011 / Various Contributors
Organize and Occupy! Organize and Occupy!
Groups long committed to challenging inequality and the power of big banks are joining the Occupy movement, in a mutually reinforcing relationship.
Oct 19, 2011 / Stephen Lerner
Solyndra and Keystone: Not All Environmental Scandals Are Created Equal Solyndra and Keystone: Not All Environmental Scandals Are Created Equal
While right-wingers froth over the Solyndra mess, a scandal with far higher stakes is being swept under the rug.
Oct 12, 2011 / The Editors
The 99 Percent Rise Up The 99 Percent Rise Up
The genius of Occupy Wall Street has been the pitch-perfect resonance of its founding premises. It has grown so rapidly because the American people desperately wanted this movement...
Oct 12, 2011 / John Nichols
Noted. Noted.
Paolo M.C. Cravero on Berlusconi and Amanda Knox, Ala’a Shehabi on medics in Bahrain and Josh Eidelson on revisionist textbooks
Oct 12, 2011 / Various Contributors
The Most Important Thing in the World The Most Important Thing in the World
The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.
Oct 12, 2011 / Naomi Klein
Occupy Wall St. Occupy Wall St.
Download hi-res posters: www.GStrike.org.
Oct 12, 2011 / Eric Drooker
Chile’s Explosion of Protest Chile’s Explosion of Protest
A huge dam project that would despoil the wild Patagonia region and draconian cutbacks in education funding have sparked massive demonstrations against the conservative government.
Oct 12, 2011 / Jimmy Langman