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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Our Government, the Keyboard Cops
If CISPA enters into U.S. law alongside the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act – which gives the government the power to detain any American for anything forever – fundamental civil liberties will be threatened in a way that no democracy can tolerate.
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Four Poems for an Occupy Spring
Following the dispossessed to Zuccotti / I never looked up at what blocked the sun / from warming the rebel camp, / The shadow of a country / that lost its spine, Consumed by smoke and zealotry.
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Fighting Austerity, Reclaiming our City
Between May 10 and May 15, New Yorkers — in solidarity with global calls to action from around the world — will carry out Another City is Possible, Another World is Possible, a week of actions connecting the city budget to austerity measures around the world, all culminating on May 15 at 6 p.m. in a mass convergence in Times Square.
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Rocking Chicago: Your Guide to the NATO Counter-Summit
Occupy Chicago and numerous community groups have lined up a week of actions to confront austerity and militarism.
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Occupy 2.0: Building a New Reality
I was never among those who thought that the occupation of public sites was what a serious revolutionary movement should look like. But now that we have been pushed off the streets, we have an opportunity.
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Kids vs. Global Warming: The Lawsuit
On Friday, a U.S. District Court will hear a motion to dismiss a climate change lawsuit brought by teenagers from across America who are demanding immediate policy action to slow global warming and preserve theirs and future generations.
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In Court, Twitter Sides with Occupy
Twitter has moved to quash a court order issued by the Manhattan district attorney that would require it to hand over the tweets of a writer and Occupy Wall Street protester arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last October.
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Amid Outcry, a Mega-Banker Gets His Degree
Retired Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill will receive an honorary doctorate from Sonoma State University in Northern California, on May 12. Some students, faculty and staff are outraged.
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Blockupy Frankfurt Banned
Blockupy protests planned for the European Days of Action, targeting the European Union's political and economic crisis, have been banned by the German government.
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Profiles: CSU Hunger Strikers Speak
Last Friday, after three days leading a hunger strike against student debt, a small group from Students for Quality Education (SQE) met with California State University Chancellor Charles Reed, Christine Helwick, Esq., and systemwide police chief Nate Johnson at CSU headquarters in Long Beach.
