the 99%

Escalating the War on Low-Income Families

It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.

Cracks in Capitalism, Part III: "The Divide" Shows Inequality On the Big Screen

Katharine Round’s new documentary, "The Divide," adds substantially to the debate around inequality as it explains in clear terms how our 35-year experiment in neoliberalism has failed spectacularly.

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Wealth Belongs To All Of Us – Not Just To The Rich

As a white male, everything I have is a gift of the system.

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Five Years Later, the Recession Lingers Only for the 99%

Only the 1% has prospered since the financial crisis five years ago.

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Letter from a College Student: Occupy Remains Underdeveloped

The Occupy Movement's inspiring intentions are moving and worth starting a revolution for, but their calls to change have fallen on deaf ears of the majority of those who fall under the 99%.

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Happy 158th! Revisiting the Socialism of Oscar Wilde

Should the “best amongst the poor” be grateful for meager scraps? Hell no, said Wilde, whose unique anarchist, non-authoritarian version of socialism still resonates today.

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Occupy Our Homes Gears Up for December Campaign

This past year, activists across the country declared housing a human right. In December, the Occupy Our Homes movement will grow stronger.

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Opinion: Workers Are The 99%, Plain and Simple

We now have the battle lines clearly drawn: those who want a new society, and those who want to keep it the way it is. But our current, amorphous definition of the 99% will not provide us with an adequate paradigm to move forward.

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