The Sign That Could Evict the Wall Street Occupiers

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2011 On or before Oct. 13, someone affixed flimsy signs announcing new rules for the use of Zuccotti Park to the granite walls enclosing the place where anti-Wall Street protesters have camped for almost a month. UPDATED Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

OWS Declares Victory as Liberty Plaza Cleanup Is Postponed

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2011 Occupy Wall Street: 1, Mayor Bloomberg: 0 After the New York City mayor's sketchy sanitation plan for Zuccotti Park -- or, if you will, Liberty Plaza -- was postponed on Friday, OWS members were bullish, making it clear on their website that this development constituted a victory (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y. Laborers Local Takes a Stand at Liberty Plaza

Staff / Truthdig Oct 13, 2011 Mike Hellstrom, a construction and private sanitation worker for more than two decades, has been involved in union work for 27 years, and he’s tired of watching his friends and colleagues lose their benefits and earnings after laboring for their entire adult lives. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

This Physician Supports Occupy Wall Street

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2011 Wall Street protesters joined progressive and community groups Tuesday on a march to the homes of several New York City billionaires to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers extend a surcharge tax on the state’s wealthiest residents, and New York City physician Bertha Bauer stands with them. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Henry Giroux on Youth in a Culture of Hopelessness

Staff / Truthdig Oct 9, 2011 In an interview with Al-Jazeera English, Truthout contributor and McMaster University professor Henry Giroux spoke about the social and economic forces that have turned young people into what he says is the most powerless, least represented and most disposable group in America, and discussed how youths of marginalized race and class might join the growing Occupy Wall Street movement. (more) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobs, Taxes and the Occupation of Wall Street

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2011 The Labor Department announced that employers added 103,000 jobs in September, President Obama addressed the Occupy Wall Street movement and Sarah Palin and Chris Christie said they would not run. The LRC panel discusses this and more. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New York’s Finest Are Neither Amused Nor Inspired

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2011 In the battle protesters are waging against U.S. corporations in lower Manhattan, appeals to NYPD officers' sense of class solidarity have so far failed to shake them from their traditional role. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Origin and Future of the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2011 Salon reporter Justin Elliott sat down with Adbusters co-founder and editor-in-chief Kalle Lasn to talk about the formation of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in print with a poster published in Lasn's “culture-jamming” magazine in mid-July. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )