Change is rarely as simple as dominos. Sometimes, it’s as complex as chaos theory and as slow as evolution. Even things that seem to happen suddenly turn out to be flowers that emerge from plants with deep roots in the past or sometimes from long-dormant seeds. By Rebecca Solnit September 15, 2013 TomDispatch.org Read Tom Engelhardt's More
The primacy of corporate profit trumps our right to a living wage, affordable and adequate health care, the regulation of industry and environmental controls, protection from corporate fraud and abuse, the right to a good and affordable public education, the ability to form labor unions, and having a government that serves the basic needs of More
The primacy of corporate profit trumps our right to a living wage, affordable and adequate health care, the regulation of industry and environmental controls, protection from corporate fraud and abuse, the right to a good and affordable public education, the ability to form labor unions, and having a government that serves the basic needs of More
Occupy Movement Files Lawsuit Against Every Federal Regulator of Wall Street By Pam Martens: February 28, 2013 WallStreetOnParade.com In several respects, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the feminist movement. Corporate funded media has declared the women’s rights movement dead ad nauseam for four decades — and yet it thrives and reinvents itself. Similarly, corporate More
The Problem of the New York Police Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 25, 2012 New York Review of Books New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on terrorism charges, May 12, 2011. (Mary Altaffer/AP Images) Over the More
The Problem of the New York Police Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 25, 2012 New York Review of Books New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on terrorism charges, May 12, 2011. (Mary Altaffer/AP Images) Over the More
Groups Fault Boston Police For Surveillance By Monica Brady-Myerov October 18, 2012 90.9wbur Boston's NPR Station BOSTON — The Boston chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Boston Police Department to stop monitoring peaceful demonstrations, interrogating activists and categorizing peaceful groups as extremists. After reviewing hundreds of public police records the ACLU and the National More
Court declares 92 Occupy Chicago arrests unconstitutional A judge in Cook County, Illinois on Thursday dismissed over 90 cases against Occupy Chicago activists on the grounds that they violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. By David Edwards Thursday, September 27, 2012 15:25 EDT TheRawStory.com Judge Thomas Donnelly declared that the city’s park More
New York: The Police and the Protesters Still, the overwhelming policing of OWS was out of proportion to any threat to civic order that the protest posed. Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 11, 2012 New York Review of Books An Occupy Wall Street protester at Zuccotti Park before it was raided by police, New York City, November 13, 2011 More
New York: The Police and the Protesters Still, the overwhelming policing of OWS was out of proportion to any threat to civic order that the protest posed. Michael Greenberg OCTOBER 11, 2012 New York Review of Books An Occupy Wall Street protester at Zuccotti Park before it was raided by police, New York City, November 13, 2011 More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sey42g1UYO4&w=420&h=315] Published on Sep 20, 2012 by UpTakeVideo Occupy's Impact: Emboldening Homeowners Against Banks Like this Watch the latest episode of The UpTake on Blip! http://blip.tv/the-uptake/watch Riot Charges Dropped Against Occupy Homes Activists [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73ok7MgLJE&w=420&h=315] Occupy Wall Street, which celebrated its one-year anniversary yesterday, has helped bring economic justice and fair taxation to the forefront of our political More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sey42g1UYO4&w=420&h=315] Published on Sep 20, 2012 by UpTakeVideo Occupy's Impact: Emboldening Homeowners Against Banks Like this Watch the latest episode of The UpTake on Blip! http://blip.tv/the-uptake/watch Riot Charges Dropped Against Occupy Homes Activists [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73ok7MgLJE&w=420&h=315] Occupy Wall Street, which celebrated its one-year anniversary yesterday, has helped bring economic justice and fair taxation to the forefront of our political More
