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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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Santa Monica College backs down on tuition hikes after pepper-spraying its students, thousands pour into the streets of Chicago in numbers not seen since the Fall, urban
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Fiction: Louder Than Words
“These civilians,” his hoarse cry, on camera for the world. “Why violence? Against peaceful protesters? Against your brothers and sisters, citizens like you, of this country!”
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Only Occupy Can Restore Direct Democracy to America
Through its General Assemblies and horizontal decision-making, Occupy Wall Street has brought direct democracy back to America.
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Poetry: Hiatus
But out of the glare of the media stare, the knowledge unerringly spreads: the old ways are broken, the people have spoken, and a new generation now treads.
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Sorry, But the 1% Does Not Create Jobs
For the last four decades, U.S.
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The Politics of Indifference, Canadian-style
Whether they agree with the methods or goals of the Occupy Movement or not, Canadians are slowly becoming aware of how inequality is fragmenting and harming our society.
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Attacking Oppression with Laughter
The recent spate of right-wing attacks against reproductive rights, the ongoing foreclosure crisis propagated by Wall Street banks, racist police actions that never seem to end - the injustices can feel overwhelming.
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Don't Forget the Funny
He’s appeared on the BBC as a Dow Chemical spokesman apologizing for the Bhopal disaster in India; he’s spoken at conferences as a
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How America Finances Repression Abroad
One of the biggest clues to understanding the connections among grassroots democratic uprisings across the world may be found by tracking connections among methods of repression.
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Profits Trump People in Corporate America
Law and precedent say corporations owe a strong duty to the 99%, and not to shareholders alone. This third installment in a five-part series looks at how the public can take back control.
