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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Banks to Blame for 800,000 Preventable Foreclosures
The Obama administration’s program to tackle the housing crisis and help homeowners who were facing foreclosure fell far short of its goals — and a recent report blames the nation's biggest banks for the failure.
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Lockdown! Activists Paralyze Keystone XL Machinery in Texas
Activists with the Tar Sands Blockade on Wednesday morning halted construction — again — on the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas, furthering their campaign of civil disobedience and direct actions against the oil transport project.
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Forging a People's Wall
If the police are adapting their arrest tactics, we should adapt our own tactics to protect innocent people from unlawful arrest, imprisonment, and costly court dates and attorney fees.
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Occupy Your Victories
Occupy's accomplished a great deal in a year.
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The Strike Debt Campaign: A Manual is Born
That launched this September 17 moves from convergence around the tactic of occupation to consensus around the politics of debt.
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The Chicago Teachers Strike: Challenging Democracy's Demise
What the world is witnessing in Chicago as thousands of teachers, staff and support personnel strike is the emergence of a revolutionary ideal.
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Victory—For Now—in Suit Against the NDAA
It is deeply disturbing that the Obama administration, rather than protecting our civil liberties and democracy, insists on further eroding them by expanding the power of the military to seize U.S. citizens and control our streets.
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From NY to SF, Thousands March to Celebrate Year-Old Movement
"Occupy" might not be the right name for the movement anymore, as Monday's actions were less about holding space than breaching it.
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Scott Walker Rebuked By Court
In a major labor victory, Wisconsin circuit court Judge Juan Colas struck down key parts of Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law, restoring collective bargaining rights for city, county and school-district employees.
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Banking on a Post-Wall Street Era
On this, the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s important to understand the financial system that drives economic injustice – the reason why the scales always seem to be tilted towards the 1%.
