Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011. (Photo: JSsocal) The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope Friday, 18 May 2012 14:46By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.” -Raymond Williams American society has lost its claim on democracy. One indication of [...]
How the People Got Their Groove Back: What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going By Ashley Sanders http://warisacrime.org/content/how-people-got-their-groove-back-what-bunch-farmers-can-teach-bunch-occupiers-about-how-keep Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass democratic uprising. Thousands of average people, [...]
Andy Kroll, Occupy Wall Street‘s Political Victory in Ohio Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, November 20, 2011. Twelve hours after Mayor Bloomberg’s cops evicted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park, the space had been scrubbed down and repopulated with police and private-security types, up to 150 of them. In essence, since [...]
Today is a national day of action to mark the start of the third month of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here in New York, organizers have been distributing posters reading “Shut Down Wall Street! Occupy the Subways! Take the Square!” As we broadcast protesters marched in various parts of the Financial District in an [...]
Ex-New York Times Freelancer Natasha Lennard on Quitting the Corporate Media in an Occupy Era Share296 We speak with former freelancer at the New York Times, Natasha Lennard, who helped the newspaper cover the initial Occupy protests. She was arrested during the Brooklyn Bridge demonstration while reporting on the event. She no longer freelances [...]
Protesters plan a day of action two days after a surprise eviction from Zuccotti Park. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Occupy protesters prepare for day of ‘solidarity’ across US Series of events planned to support evicted Zuccotti Park activists by highlighting growing inequality and need for jobs reddit this Paul Harris in New York guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 [...]
Many Americans are drowning in debt and unable to afford both daily costs and credit card payments [GALLO/GETTY] Occupy Wall Street through Egyptian eyes One Egyptian food cart vendor in New York city typifies average American woes – deep in debt with no way out. Zayd Sifri Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:05 [...]
The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99% Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society’s values we must stay together for years Protesters react as police officers start to make arrests on the Brooklyn bridge during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters [...]
Occupy Wall Street: the direct action committee driving the protest’s success Occupy Wall Street member Ray Mia: ‘We have to make things a little sexy and badass.’ Photograph: Karen McVeigh for the Guardian • Follow developments as protesters march to Foley Square reddit this Karen McVeigh guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 October 2011 19.24 BST Article history Small [...]
Occupy Wall Street holds open daily meetings to discuss how to continue its movement, whose purpose may simply be to exist as a space for people tired with the US financial crisis and the government’s handling of it [Reuters] Understanding Wall Street’s ‘Occupation’ Four activists discuss goals of the 24-hour encampment in New York’s financial [...]
U.S. anti-corporate movement expands The Occupy Wall Street protest movement spreads to other cities and gains big-name supporters. inShare27 In the two weeks since activists with Occupy Wall Street began protesting in New York, the movement has gained traction nationwide with events in almost every major U.S. city. Meanwhile, more mainstream allies are joining the cause, [...]
Protesters are blocked from crossing the Brooklyn Bridge by the NYPD during an Occupy Wall Street march. Photograph: James Fassinger More than 700 people were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening during a march by anti-Wall Street protesters who have been occupying a downtown Manhattan square for two weeks. The group, called Occupy [...]
