Tag: Occupy Movement

Occupy Wall Street staged a rebellion against corporate corruption and economic inequality in Manhattan’s parks and streets, but the battle for the city began with nineteenth century electrification of Broadway.

It’s the first anniversary of the Occupy movement, and there is much to look forward to.

Cornel West considers the possibility that the Occupy Movement might fundamentally reshape American democracy.

Writer and former radical bookstore owner Sean Stewart talks about his new book on the underground press that was so vital to ’60s counterculture.

The two visual artists on the gravitas needed to make protest art, the rhetoric and representations of the Occupy movement, and how to seduce an audience by grabbing them by the eyeballs.

In a series of watercolors, Anna Ludwig explores the complicated history of People’s Park, and sees its echoes in Occupy Oakland.

Despite a recent loss at the ballot box, the fight is far from over for unions in Wisconsin.

On the history of the U.S. economy in decline.

Tales from May Day’s demonstrations.

Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors’ prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism

Our economy’s death cycle has a very famous historical parallel: the lead-up to the French revolution.

Skyrocketing student loan debt has dramatically changed the historical conversation about the social worth of education.

Is the anti-Occupy law fundamentally un-American?

Occupy Northville has reached an impasse that only Death can solve.