It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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So, What's Next?
The emergence of an international protest movement without a coherent program is not an accident: it reflects a deeper crisis, one without an obvious solution. So what is the movement's next step?
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Opinion: 100 years after the Titanic - and we're still sinking
The owners of the Titanic had too few lifeboats on board because they weren't legally forced to provide more. Now that reckless, greed-driven banking and financial executives have sunk our economy, here's a thought: Before you bet the farm that high-risk enterprises are inclined to self-regulate, have a word with Alan Greenspan.
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Occupying the Department of Justice: "Let's fucking stand our ground."
The Tuesday action tapped into a vein of energy which some have said the Occupy movement initially missed with its focus on economic issues. Participants saw Occupy the DOJ as a key coalition-building event to bring people of color into the wider movement, which has often been criticized for being too white.
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Reading (and Misreading) Anonymous
The media has often framed Anonymous as a threat because the diffuse and leaderless movement has become a potent symbol of popular dissatisfaction with the concentration of political and corporate power in fewer and fewer hands.
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A Sleepless Night on Occupied Wall Street
NEW YORK, NY, April 17 – Unseasonably warm air filled the streets of Manhattan as I approached the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. I glanced to my right and found my comrades on the steps of Federal Hall.
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20 Excuses for Playing Hooky on May Day
On May 1, the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called the Taft-Hartley Act, which requires unions to give 60 days notice for any strike action, and bans a variety of actions like the general strike.
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The Landscape of May Day in New York
An Occupy Wall Street organizer I know — one of the original ones, from the planning meetings before the occupation began on September 17 — has a striking banner atop his Facebook Timeline.
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Student Loan Debt: Wall Street’s Next Bubble?
Far from being a narcissistic pet issue for the disproportionately young Occupy crowds, student indebtedness in countries without universal education systems is a symptom of the same underlying pathologies that brought down the housing market five years ago - and could soon be the cause of another catastrophic economic contagion.
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Striking in LA on May 1st? Read This
For May 1st, Occupy Los Angeles is organizing around a “4 Winds” People’s Power Car and Bike Caravan through the urban sprawl of Los Angeles that will culminate in direct action in and around the financial district of downtown L.A.
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Reclaiming Ag in Oakland
On April 22, hundreds marched from an Earth Day rally in Berkeley, California, to help establish a community farm occupation on an empty tract of land in the East Bay. Occupy the Farm is spreading sustainable agriculture to lands otherwise destined for development.
