There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”
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Standing Trial: A Naval Commander of the 99%
Consider the story of Leah Bolger, the latest American hero up on trial:
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America's Newest Commodity: Prisoners
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), owner of the largest private prison system in the United States,
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Goin' Back to Philly
Philadelphia, the birthplace of both the Constitution and America's public banking system, will be occupied for a national gathering in July.
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How High CEO Pay Hurts the 99 Percent
Why are top executives making outrageous amounts of money for not doing their jobs?
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A Housing Justice Movement Builds in Chicago
Amid the urban sprawl and industrial decay that have come to mark Chicago is a growing epidemic of foreclosures and evictions now threatening the lives of tens of thousands of the city’s residents.
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How U.S. Corporations Went From Producers to Predators
Over the last 30 years, corporations have turned on the 99 percent. In this first installment of a five-part series, William Lazonick explores how it happened and how to fight back.
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Music, Love and Bar-B-Que: How the Panthers Won the People
The Black Panthers won over the masses by offering food, music and education to its community, a tactic that could benefit the Occupy Movement, a former Panther tells Occupy Fort Lauderdale.
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Occupy Zurich: Why America Should Abolish Interest
A Zurich occupier urges us to embrace the concept of abolishing interest and wonders why it's so popular in Austria but still taboo in America.
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The Global Spring Sweeps the Planet
In December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi drenched himself in fuel in the middle of Sidi Bouzid town square and lit himself on fire, a traditional
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I Can't Afford to Be the Hero, and other poems
I Can’t Afford to Be the Hero
I braked as the light changed from yellow to red,
second in line to turn.
