Michael Nagler | Violence and Evolution: Where Do We Stand?
...contrary to common opinion, violence has been steadily decreasing by a number of measures for several millennia.
New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF
New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF Revelations Show Brookfield’s Security National Coordination Partnership for Civil Justice Fund     April 20, 2012 NPS Production Documents:  Click here to view the NPS Production (77 pages) Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties’ More
Rick Perlstein> Why Occupy Needs to Start Making Demands> Rolling Stone
Supporters attend a news conference and rally in Zuccotti Park. (photo: Rolling Stone) Why Occupy Needs to Start Making Demands By Rick Perlstein, Rolling Stone 24 March 12  Reader Supported News  t’s Occupy Season again. In St. Louis on March 15, and in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park on St. Patrick’s Day, Occupy Wall Street activists returned to the More
Rebecca Solnit> Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring By Rebecca Solnit  Feb 22, 2012   TomDispatch via Truthdig When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by More
Derek McGee> An Iraq Vet’s Journey From Wall Street to OWS
An Iraq Vet’s Journey From Wall Street to OWS Derek McGee   January 25, 2012 This article appeared in the February 13, 2012 edition of The Nation. An American flag flies over the empty Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park as dawn breaks, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) In late More
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood Fans were shocked when Batman writer Frank Miller furiously attacked the Occupy movement. They shouldn’t have been, says Rick Moody – he was just voicing Hollywood’s unspoken values. Rick Moody  guardian.co.uk  24 November 2011 via truthdig ‘A mindless, propagandistic storytelling medium’ … The film 300, left, More
Call it a revolution
Call it a revolution Missy Comley Beattie   November 22, 2011    Intrepid Report Snarling riot cops evicted protestors and raided Zuccotti Park last Tuesday morning, two months after Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was launched in lower Manhattan. Spin-off groups across the country were shut down as well. Just minutes after I wrote the above paragraph, More
Tomgram> Tom Englehardt on Rebecca Solnit’s Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Ms. Civil Society v. Mr. Unaccountable Tom Dispatch When it set up its campsite at Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was facing in only one direction: toward the financial heart of the planet two blocks away. The police, who promptly surrounded the encampment and organized their own occupation of the neighborhood, were in a sense facing More
Civil Society at Ground Zero> You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring> Rebecca Solnit
Civil Society at Ground Zero You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can’t Stop the Spring Rebecca Solnit November  22. 2011   Tom Dispatch Last Tuesday, I awoke in lower Manhattan to the whirring of helicopters overhead, a war-zone sound that persisted all day and then started up again that Thursday morning, the two-month anniversary More
Tom Engelhardt> Tomgram on Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Greed, & the NYPD
Tomgram: Posted as comments on "Andy Kroll, Occupy Wall Street's Political Victory in Ohio" November 20, 2011  TomDispatch    Twelve hours after Mayor Bloomberg’s cops evicted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park, the space had been scrubbed down and repopulated with police and private-security types, up to 150 of them. More
How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights> The Unsung Victors in the Hottest Election of 2011
How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights The Unsung Victors in the Hottest Election of 2011 By Andy Kroll  Tom Dispatch No headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built on economic justice and corruption-free politics that’s spread More
Protest Planet> How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism> Juan Cole
Protest Planet> How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism By Juan Cole  TomDispatch From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this More