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AP / John Minchillo |
In all, the Million Hoodie March was an on-the-ground call for an end and an online call for a new beginning.
Posted on Mar 22, 2012
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DonkeyHotey (CC-BY) |
A group of right-wing extremists would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of a market society.
Posted on Mar 21, 2012
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Flickr / AvoF (CC-BY) |
Earlier this month, several members of LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, were charged with hacking, reportedly on the basis of reports from an FBI informer described in the media as a leader of LulzSec, notorious for its exploits against Sony, the CIA, the U.S. Senate, the FBI, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.
Posted on Mar 16, 2012
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Håkan Dahlström (CC-BY) |
Since Occupy and the Arab Spring, the animating message of Schell’s “Unconquerable World”—that, in the age of nuclear weaponry, nonviolent action is the mightiest of forces—has undergone a renaissance of sorts.
Posted on Mar 3, 2012
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Our picks for this week’s Truthdiggers are a little unusual in that we don’t really know who they are—at least not specifically. But we do know them by their collective, if faceless, alias: Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 2, 2012
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Think-N-Evolve (CC-BY) |
C. Wright Mills, the radical Columbia University sociologist who died 50 years ago at age 45, warned that America was becoming a nation of “cheerful robots,” corrupted by an economic elite and heading toward a third world war.
Posted on Feb 29, 2012
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AP / Mike Groll |
Ralph Nader believes that the call to raise the minimum wage has the potential to divide the Republican Party, which has not been split on any major issue in Congress since Obama took office.
Posted on Feb 27, 2012
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editrrix (CC-BY) |
Occupy had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
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Mait Jüriado (CC-BY) |
At a time when it’s become cliché to say Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation, electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%.
Posted on Feb 18, 2012
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AP / Evan Vucci |
There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
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