This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Taking Crises Into Our Own Hands: Why Millennials Are Committing Civil Disobedience
From Occupy to Black Lives Matter, climate justice, immigrant rights, Moral Mondays, and fast food workers on strike, our movements are starting to come together to speak with one voice.
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From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter: Where Does Radical Protest Go From Here?
New movements have had more material success than Occupy Wall Street, but the age-old challenge that Occupy put into stark relief remains: will they settle for reform when they came to have a revolution.
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Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters – And Their Message – Are Key to Bernie's Campaign
Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.
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The Movement Lives On: 4 Years Later, Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of Its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?
Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
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$333K in Settlements for Six Pepper-Sprayed Occupy Protesters
More taxpayer money pays for NYPD misdeeds.
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"We're In a Revolutionary Moment": Why Chris Hedges Believes the Uprising Is Coming Soon
"You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you [can] become," says the author and journalist.
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"Protest Is Broken": Co-Creator of Occupy Wall Street Calls for New Mental Shift
The co-creator of Occupy Wall Street has advice for the next generation of social movements: “Never protest the same way twice.”
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The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street
Nearly four years after the precipitous rise of Occupy Wall Street, the movement so many thought had disappeared has instead splintered and regrown into a variety of focused causes.
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The Democratic Party Needs A Swift Kick In the Ass
Grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street can make powerful statements by running their own candidates and mobilizing their members to vote in Democratic primary elections against entrenched incumbents.
