We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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In Albuquerque - Occupy and Immigrant Groups Unite
If anything captured the essence of the 2012 May Day celebrations, it was the convergence of issues popularized by Occupy Wall Street-influenced movements with the demands for justice long pushed by immigrant community organizations.
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Oakland Police Cited for "Military-Type Response" to Occupy
A federal judge has ordered Oakland’s police department to submit a plan to address numerous unresolved complaints regarding their handling of the Occupy Oakland protests.
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Occupy Wall Street Stages a Sit-In at the AG's Office
More than a dozen people staged a sit-in at the office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, pressuring him as co-chair of the federal Financial Fraud Task Force's Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group to make good on his pledge to investigate—and hold people accountable for—Wall Street’s crimes.
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Quebec's Students Win Battle for Universal Education
"Our strike, it is not merely the matter of a generation. It is the matter of a people, it is the matter of this world. Our strike is not an isolated event. Our strike is just a step. It is just a moment along a much longer route."
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Things You Can Do Now
Occupation is about participation, and there are many ways to get involved.
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Protecting the Right to Record
On Thursday, nine leading free speech and digital rights groups called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to focus attention on the alarming number of arrests of people documenting Occupy protests.
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Leggo My Ovaries
We, as women, cannot claim equality if someone else has control over our bodies.
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For London, a Community Bill of Rights
The legal system maintains the status quo to keep corporations in power and ensure that communities are subordinate. Community Bills of Rights, emerging now in many places, are helping to change that.
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Comprehending Climate Change
Climate change is the mother of all conundrums: too big to fear, too invisible to see, too unpredictable to predict. Different generations react to it at different speeds, and changing the mind is a slow business indeed.
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The Rich and the Rest of Us
A week ago, the U.S. government announced that 7.2 percent of Americans in the labor force earn so little that they are living in poverty. In other words: for the working poor, simply having a job isn’t enough.
