Cecily McMillan Sentenced to Three Months in Jail

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 19, 2014 The Occupy Wall Street activist who two weeks ago was found guilty of assaulting a police officer as he led her out of a protest in Zuccotti Park was sentenced Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Cecily McMillan

BLANK May 12, 2014 Occupy Wall Street organizer Cecily McMillan is paying with her time and body for our leaders' sins of unbridled power and extreme wealth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Will Civil Liberties Survive OWS Trial?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 16, 2014 As an Occupy Wall Street activist goes to trial on charges of assaulting a police officer, author and lawyer Chase Madar asks what the rights to freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and freedom from warrantless search are worth in the United States today. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Seattle Socialist Kshama Sawant Takes Office

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 6, 2014 Seattle's first socialist city official in decades, an economics teacher, former Occupy Wall Street activist and former Truthdigger of the Week, ran on a campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She enters office Monday along with Mayor Ed Murray. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘We Are Living in the World Occupy Made’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 9, 2013 Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party, the national, independent, inequality-focused political coalition sponsored by labor unions that helped elect Bill de Blasio to the position of mayor of New York City, tells "Democracy Now!" about the role Occupy Wall Street played in the latest election. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pepper Spray Villain’s Compensation Exceeds Occupiers’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 24, 2013 The UC Davis cop who pepper-sprayed at close range a group of peacefully protesting students was awarded $38,000 for his experience in the aftermath of the altercation, more than those he brutalized received. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Searching for Sustainable Models of Activism, 2 Years After Occupy

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Sep 20, 2013 While economists are celebrating a tenuous recovery five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, this week’s US Census Bureau report on poverty provided a sobering statisticThis week’s U Census Bureau report on poverty provides a sobering statistic. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Joy Arises, Rules Fall Apart

By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch Sep 16, 2013 On the second anniversary of that day in lower Manhattan when people sat down in outrage and stayed in dedication and solidarity and hope, remember how unpredictably the world changes, remember those doing heroic work that you might hear little or nothing about but who are all around you, remember to hope and remember to build. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Chicago Waking Up!

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 29, 2013 The people of Chicago are learning how to disturb, embarrass and block the ambitions of socially destructive politicians and corporate executives, Rick Perlstein of The Nation magazine reports. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Redacted FBI Documents Show Plot to Kill Occupy Leaders If ‘Deemed Necessary’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 30, 2013 "Did the FBI ignore, or even abet, a plot to assassinate Occupy Houston leaders?" asks journalist Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy. "What did the Feds know? Whom did they warn? And what did the Houston Police know?" Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs

By Todd Gitlin, TomDispatch Jun 28, 2013 American high-tech surveillance is not the only kind around. There’s also the lower tech, up-close-and-personal kind that involves informers and sometimes government-instigated violence, which major news organizations have not put together in a way that gives us an overview of the phenomenon. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

David Graeber: They’re Enslaving You With Debt

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 31, 2013 Debt has been weaponized "pretty much continually" for the last four or five millennia by "people who have access to the ability to make credit," the anthropologist, Occupy activist and anarchist said on the "Keiser Report" TV show in late April. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )