Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
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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.
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Inequality? We Need a New Word
When inequality and social injustice reach the extreme forms we increasingly see today, we need new language to describe it. Yes, we have growing inequality, racism and social exclusion.
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Occupying Homes in Detroit and Beyond
A truck pulling an enormous construction dumpster came rumbling down Pierson Street in northwest Detroit on January 31. It was a cold Michigan morning, and the whole street was slick with ice.
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Wanna Break Up Bank of America? The Line Forms to the Right.
Breaking up BAC would represent a seismic shift in Wall Street-government relations, but we have moved such mountains before.
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The Power of Public Comments
In March, Occupy the SEC submitted a 325-page comment letter recommending that the Volcker Rule—a regulation to limit Wall Street's most outrageous behavior—be strengthened rather than gutted.
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Fighting BAC
We don’t want Bank of America to fail - but it already has failed, and only our tax dollars and our government’s continued protection is keeping that failure from becoming common knowledge.
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Kill This Bill! Or, How to Slay a Dragon
Occupy Atlanta helped build a coalition to defeat Georgia’s anti-speech and anti-union bill, demonstrating people power in action.
