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Stephen D. Melkisethian (CC BY-ND 2.0) |
As people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth instead of their interests, more of them are becoming fearless.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Abode of Chaos (CC BY 2.0) |
Stéphane Hessel, the French-German author of “Indignez-vous” who died in February at age 95, is a towering figure of 20th-century resistance and an example to those who hope to create the future.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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AP/Osamu Honda |
Where is the Occupy movement now that the depravity of the super rich is on full display?
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish |
The security and surveillance state, recently released FBI documents show, monitors even mainstream dissenters and is determined to shut down all organized resistance to corporate rule. The goal: an encompassing system of pervasive fear and overt intimidation.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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ms.donnalee / donna cleveland (CC BY 2.0) |
Postmodern confusion about how populist movements take hold and flourish caused Occupy Wall Street to “deconstruct” itself in a frenzied obsession with nonhierarchical structures, a disdain for demands, and other trappings of “lazy, reflexive libertarianism,” author and columnist Thomas Frank writes in The Baffler.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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Photo by Paul Weiskel (rights reserved) |
Occupiers say the movement is about building connections, creating alternative media sources and learning to cope without government.
Posted on Oct 10, 2012
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D Sharon Pruitt (CC BY 2.0) |
You don’t have to participate in this system, but you do have to describe it and its complexities and contradictions accurately, and you do have to understand that when you choose not to participate, it better be for reasons more interesting than the cultivation of your own moral superiority, which is so often also the cultivation of recreational bitterness.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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pasukaru76 (CC BY 2.0) |
After a series of dream-come-true gaffes and blunders from Mitt Romney in recent weeks, Obama and his savvy campaign staff should really be home free, having run political circles around their Republican opponent as he was running circles around himself. There’s only one problem: the world.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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david_shankbone (CC BY 2.0) |
The one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street produced a lot of mainstream media stories that assured you Occupy was only a bunch of tents that came down last year. Don’t buy it. A year is nothing and the mainstream media is oblivious to where power lies and how change works.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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AP/Jason Redmond |
“Why it is so hard to tell the truth today?” I asked Vietnam veteran and anti-war hero Ron Kovic one summer night over drinks in midtown Manhattan.
Posted on Aug 19, 2012
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