Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Poetry: The World We Want is US
the joyful news of your arrest/this sunday morning everything/is bringing tears.
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The American Spring
The National Occupation of Washington, DC, is bringing occupiers together to share experiences, educate each other and build an independent movement to shift power from concentrated wealth.
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A New Declaration
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise.
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General Strike Rocks Spain
Last Thursday, people across Spain made a show of force in a general strike, on a scale ranging from the government estimate of 800,000 to the four million claimed by the unions.
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Mic Checked! Fiction from New York City
It’s not a dream, not a spectacle, not a trend on Twitter. It’s a sweaty mass of bodies, it’s cold, hard, concrete ground, it’s a looming and armed police force, it’s a careful orchestration of radically different opinions and needs and values and beliefs.
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Race, Gender and Occupy
“I think that what happens normally is the media has most of white America looking at people of color as deficient, savage, and when they see something happen to them by police they believe that it was somehow their fault."
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A Letter from the Student Walkout for Trayvon Martin
I would like it to be known that just because we are minors does not mean we are exempt from the First Amendment free speech right to “peaceably assemble” – which is exactly what we did.
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The Declaration of the Occupation
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
