We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the carbon pouring into the atmosphere.
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¡Basta! Revolution Becomes Reality in Spain
On Saturday, Spaniards swarmed governmental and financial buildings across Madrid, a preview for this Tuesday, when thousands more are expected to surround the Spanish Congress and demand that the government, lawmakers and king resign.
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Poem: The Beating Heart Everywhere
One year since we rose up and linked hands and listened to one another.
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How Occupy Birthed a Rhizome
Anniversaries, like Monday’s one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, bring about pangs of nostalgia as we remember what was and what we could have been.
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Cops Might Finally Need a Warrant to Read Your Gmail
Because they apparently didn't before.
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Monsanto's Herbicide-Laden Corn Causes Cancer in Rats
A new GMO study concludes that rats fed a lifelong diet of Roundup-containing genetically modified corn, engineered by Monsanto, developed mass tumors, liver and kidney damage that killed more than half of them prematurely.
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British City of Bristol Launches its Own Currency
Bristol is launching its own currency, the Bristol Pound, with hundreds of businesses already signed up to use the currency designed to keep local wealth in local pockets.
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Opposition to Fracking Mounts in Europe
The first coordinated international day of action against fracking on September 22—Global Frackdown—will unite activists on five continents through more than 100 events to call for a ban on hydraulic fracturing in their communities.
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Privatization Be Damned!
The futility of diverting public funds into the hands of profitseekers has been well-documented. Here are a few of the gathering curses of privatization.
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Putting Sorkin’s Occupy Wall Street Critique in a Larger Historical Context
In “Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled,” Andrew Ross Sorkin leaped into the ongoing frenzy, which has hopefully fizzled, of proclaiming the death of Occupy as thousands of people are taking to the streets.
