Melissa Harris-Perry: The Occupy Movement Takes On Classroom Inequality Melissa Harris-Perry: The Occupy Movement Takes On Classroom Inequality
One out of five American children live in poverty. Among them, 40 percent of African-American children and 35 percent of Hispanic children live below the poverty line. We know this...
Nov 1, 2011 / Press Room
Occupy Bowdoin Kicks Off Occupy Bowdoin Kicks Off
The anatomy of a movement at Bowdoin College.
Nov 1, 2011 / StudentNation / Erica Berry
What Is Occupy Wall Street About? What Is Occupy Wall Street About?
This video, courtesy of Occupy Animators, helps explain what’s at stake and why the new movement against economic inequality is growing so rapidly.
Nov 1, 2011 / Peter Rothberg
Occupy Oakland Calls for a November 2 General Strike Occupy Oakland Calls for a November 2 General Strike
In less than two weeks, Occupy Oakland went from its first public action to calling for a city-wide general strike.
Nov 1, 2011 / Gabriel Thompson
Katrina vanden Heuvel: People Are in Motion for Change Katrina vanden Heuvel: People Are in Motion for Change
Katrina's first book, The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, examines the systemic dysfunction that plagues American politics.
Oct 31, 2011 / Press Room
Thinking Big on Poverty Thinking Big on Poverty
We should be a country that does big things—like cut poverty in half in the next decade.
Oct 31, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Is Occupy Wall Street Responsible for a New York Crime Wave? Is Occupy Wall Street Responsible for a New York Crime Wave?
Conservatives are trying to blame the protests for every shooting in New York City.
Oct 31, 2011 / Ben Adler
Occupy Wall Street at Valley Forge Occupy Wall Street at Valley Forge
A (self-) graduation speech for the Occupiers at Zuccotti Park.
Oct 31, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt
Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice
The church has proposed a financial transaction tax in order to steer the economy “towards achieving the common good.” Is that class warfare?
Oct 30, 2011 / John Nichols
Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood
A very specific and concrete proposal has caught on like wildfire in Occupy encampments across the nation: Amend the Constitution to end corporate personhood.
Oct 28, 2011 / Press Room