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.

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Making Our Arrests Count

We don’t always choose when we are arrested, and we don’t always have control over how it is depicted in the press, but we do have some power over what kinds of battles we choose to wage and how we choose to wage them.

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Interview: The Editor of Adbusters Shares New Thoughts on the Movement

Kalle Lasn, founder and editor of Adbusters magazine, is largely credited for conceptualizing and starting the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. "I don't think anything can stop these young people," he said.

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Changing the Climate in Our Schools

Tennessee just became the fourth state -- following Louisiana, Texas, and South Dakota - to pass a law that requires global warming to be taught as one of a number of "scientific controversies."

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Breaking: BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. April 20 marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster.

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Bank of America Hoax Confuses Executives, the Media

The spoof website, YourBofA.com, is an open call to American taxpayers to begin considering what they will do after a bailout, when they'll have a chance to become Bank of America's majority owners.

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Occupy Amsterdam Sets the Record Straight

Wary of being unfairly portrayed in the media, an occupier unfurls the story of the occupation of the stock Amsterdam stock exchange, including mixed messages from law enforcement, evictions and the pitching and unpitching of many tents.

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Wide Awake and Occupying Central Park

At New York City's first citywide assembly, held last weekend in Central Park, hundreds came together from across the boroughs to discuss the next phase of the Spring Awakening.

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Take Me Out to the Tax Game

To commemorate Tax Day, the Tax Dodgers went to bat for the 1%.

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