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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Occupy Portland: On Trial, but Enjoying Public Support
As jury candidates are interviewed for the trial of a Portland Occupier, broad public support for the movement is revealed.
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Book Review: More Powerful Than Dynamite
In his new book about New York's radicals and plutocrats of 1914, Jones reminds readers that the incessant repetitions of history mean nothing unless historians lift them out of the obscurity to which they've been consigned and magnify them for all the world to see.
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A message to the 99% Spring
What we need is a mass movement that fights to defend the little guy against corporate greed and corrupt politicians. What we don't need is for Occupy Wall Street to turn into the hipsters of the protest world.
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Occupying Your Workplace
OccuCopy, an Occupy Wall Street workers collective modeled on Latin American successes of the past, could mark a way forward for the Occupy Movement.
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Poetry: Proposal to Change the World
We have grown tolerant of lying on every level of our national existence, yet everybody hates being lied to. In our private lives we rarely stand for what in public we barely notice.
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Pre-Existing Condition
What ‘government takeover’ of healthcare? Corporate interests still determine what sort of system we have.
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Rejecting Foreclosure in Minnesota
Occupy Homes helped an Air Force veteran and his wife stave off foreclosure by U.S. Bank, which refused to modify the terms of their mortgage.
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Vermont Passes Resolution to Overturn Citizens United
The Vermont Senate has given preliminary approval to an amendment to the U.S. Constitution aimed at reversing the U.S Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010.
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Tea Party Protest Reveals Friction
The counter-protest focused on what protesters asserted to be anti-gay elements within the Tea Party, specifically several noted anti-gay activists who were invited there to speak.
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Opinion: How to succeed in reoccupation without really trying
I’ve lately been getting the feeling that Occupy Wall Street’s past successes are starting to go to the heads of some people in the movement.
