“We’re finding police have a lot of capacity to set a tone,” Adams said during a recent radio interview with Sacramento’s KFBK. “When police show up in riot gear you get a different kind of interaction than when they show up in their regular uniforms.”
Released from Rikers prison after serving 58 days, Occupy activist Cecily McMillan discusses prisons, policing and why she'll keep protesting. Cecily McMillan. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) By Sarah Jaffe Truthout.org | Interview 13 July 2014 Cecily McMillan would rather not be famous. Not for the dubious honor of receiving the most serious sentence among thousands of More
Released from Rikers prison after serving 58 days, Occupy activist Cecily McMillan discusses prisons, policing and why she'll keep protesting. Cecily McMillan. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) By Sarah Jaffe Truthout.org | Interview 13 July 2014 Cecily McMillan would rather not be famous. Not for the dubious honor of receiving the most serious sentence among thousands of More
Nonviolence requires—despite what those who advocate violence contend—deep reserves of physical and moral courage. State violence is defeated through the refusal to be afraid, even after violence is used by the state to stamp out protests, and through continuing acts of nonviolent resistance. By Chris Hedges truthdig.com June 9, 2014 A visitor to Hong Kong’s June More
Editor's Note: Little did these women know when Annie Appel caught them outside a restaurant in Chicago during the NATO protests in May of 2012 that they would have the honor of appearing in a 572-page book of Occupy portraits with an introduction by Chris Hedges. When photos of violence against Occupy Wall Street protesters began to appear More
Editor's Note: Little did these women know when Annie Appel caught them outside a restaurant in Chicago during the NATO protests in May of 2012 that they would have the honor of appearing in a 572-page book of Occupy portraits with an introduction by Chris Hedges. When photos of violence against Occupy Wall Street protesters began to appear More
McMillan’s journey from a rural Texas backwater to a courtroom in New York is a journey of political awakening. By Chris Hedges truthdig.com Apr 27, 2014 Occupy Wall Street activists Eric Linkser, center left, and Cecily McMillan, far right, take turns shouting information to fellow protesters preparing to return to Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, 2011. AP/Bebeto Matthews NEW More
By Rivera Sun February 27th, 2014 www.popularresistance.org Above photo: Sweet Honey in the Rock performs during an event to commemorate Marian Anderson’s performance 70 years ago, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Sunday, April 12, 2009. Anderson, who was black, couldn’t sing at Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt More
By Ted Asregado Truthout | Video Interview 02 February 2014 Truthout.org [youtube=http://youtu.be/mbOhELlpAcc] President Barack Obama enters the House Chamber of the Capitol Building to deliver the State of the Union address, Jan. 28, 2014. (Photo: Gabriella Demczuk / The New York Times) A politician who tries to please as many factions as he or she can often ends More
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela by Henry A. Giroux January 7, 2014 PhilosophersforChange.org Guy Debord once More
The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable. By Rebecca Solnit May 19, 2013 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full More
Excerpt from Thank You Anarchy, Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse by Nathan Schneider Occupy Wall Street banner with Alexander Hamilton By Nathan Schneider November 1st, 2013 www.truth-out.org PopularResistance.org Powered by Translate Nathan Schneider, the author of “Thank You Anarchy,” was covering the Occupy Movement from its origins. In his first chapter, More
