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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A Sleepless Night on Occupied Wall Street
NEW YORK, NY, April 17 – Unseasonably warm air filled the streets of Manhattan as I approached the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. I glanced to my right and found my comrades on the steps of Federal Hall.
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20 Excuses for Playing Hooky on May Day
On May 1, the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called the Taft-Hartley Act, which requires unions to give 60 days notice for any strike action, and bans a variety of actions like the general strike.
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The Landscape of May Day in New York
An Occupy Wall Street organizer I know — one of the original ones, from the planning meetings before the occupation began on September 17 — has a striking banner atop his Facebook Timeline.
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Student Loan Debt: Wall Street’s Next Bubble?
Far from being a narcissistic pet issue for the disproportionately young Occupy crowds, student indebtedness in countries without universal education systems is a symptom of the same underlying pathologies that brought down the housing market five years ago - and could soon be the cause of another catastrophic economic contagion.
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Striking in LA on May 1st? Read This
For May 1st, Occupy Los Angeles is organizing around a “4 Winds” People’s Power Car and Bike Caravan through the urban sprawl of Los Angeles that will culminate in direct action in and around the financial district of downtown L.A.
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Reclaiming Ag in Oakland
On April 22, hundreds marched from an Earth Day rally in Berkeley, California, to help establish a community farm occupation on an empty tract of land in the East Bay. Occupy the Farm is spreading sustainable agriculture to lands otherwise destined for development.
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We Are All Leaving Goldman Sachs
We are never going to understand the 1% unless we recognize that its members are for the most part no less morally conscientious than you or me.
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The Importance of Being Sassy
Long before Abbie Hoffman dropped dollar bills into the New York Stock Exchange, humor has been used as a potent political weapon, exposing the absurdities and inequities of a consumerist society.
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Occupy Big Food
A crucial part of the success of Occupy will also depend on getting Americans to understand corporate control of our food supply and the way in which, over the past sixty years, industrial food has come to dominate our food choices.
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Revisiting Heilbroner
Economists in the 1930s and early '40s already offered foreboding predictions for American capitalism. A half century after the publication of "The Worldly Philosophers," Robert Heilbroner's book bears revisiting for the eerie relevance it holds today.
