(May 27, 2012 - New America Media) Thousands of university students took to the streets of Mexico City Wednesday demanding greater freedom of speech in the country and protesting the PRI’s possible return to power... (May 27, 2012 - Occupy Wall Street) Thank you; you are a little late to the party, and you are still missing the mark a lot of the time, but in the past few days, you have published some not entirely terrible articles and op-eds about what’s happening in Quebec right now. Welcome to our movement... (May 23, 2012 - Wall Street Journal)
Thousands of students are joining a growing street-demonstration movement to protest Mexico's top two television networks, which they accuse of colluding to secure the leading presidential candidate's election this summer... (April 26, 2012 - Mother Jones) On the first of May, the Occupy Wall Street movement hopes to leverage the labor holiday known as May Day and muster enough people power to blockade the Golden Gate Bridge -- assuming, that is, that striking bridge workers take the lead... (April 24, 2012 - Salon)
In a short video released last week, a group of students from New York’s Paul Robeson High School stand in an unremarkable classroom: school bags slung over wooden chairs and busy pinboards in the background. Their message, however... (April 23, 2012 - LA Times) A week before a scheduled May Day protest by Occupy movement demonstrators, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan on Monday announced what he said were major reforms in department crowd-control tactics... (April 20, 2012 - Occupy Wall St.)
May Day is an international day of celebration to honor the labor movement. This year the Occupy movement has made a call for mass action -- the May First General Strike (#M1GS): a day without the 99%. Several cities have organized in solidarity... (April 16, 2012 - Salon) I was reminded this weekend that it's still unclear what exactly Occupy Wall Street is -- or, more precisely, what does or does not count as part of "Occupy." Events in New York once again brought this to the fore for those organizing and agitating under... (April 16, 2012 - Daily Kos) On May 1, 2012, two weeks from now, cities across the United States and elsewhere will see a new dimension of the Occupy movement: a general strike. Whether it achieves its ends -- and those vary from city to city -- depends... (March 2, 2012 - Huffington Post)
It's easy to bemoan our political leaders and we no doubt expect way too much from them. They are, after all, no more than elected public officials. We vote them into office to represent us. When they fail to represent the will of the people... (Nov. 11, 2011 - Huffington Post)
It's hard to see the forest for the trees. And it's hard to see a movement when it is happening. It's easier to look back in time and read about successful campaigns by individuals that changed the course of human history. If we look back upon the Civil Rights Movement... (January 6, 2011 - Huffington Post) "I wonder what Occupy Wall Street is going to do next..." So goes the refrain that punctuates many conversations about Occupy Wall Street today. The refrain marks a quiet... (read more) (January 1, 2012 - C-SPAN) On Book TV’s In Depth, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Chris Hedges spends three hours taking viewers' calls, emails and tweets on topics such as terrorism, religion and politics... (watch online) What 19th Century Farmers Can Teach Occupiers About How to Keep Going (December 30, 2011) Not so long ago, Americans witnessed the beginning of a mass democratic uprising. Thousands of average people, disgusted by greedy elites and corporate control of... (read more) (December 30, 2011) Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a "brilliant" idea, he says, but now it's time to "move on to the next stage.... (read more) (This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011) As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who... (read more) (November 18, 2011 - Kansas City Star) Occupy Memphis member Mallory Pope had just finished telling a group of about 75 tea party followers Thursday night that politicians should not allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists and unions when... (read more) (November 10, 2011 - Yes! Magazine) Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the diminishing fortunes of the... (read more) (November 10, 2011 - Rolling Stone) I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. The first few times I went down to Zuccotti Park, I came away with mixed feelings. I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of... (read more) (October 19, 2011 - The Guardian) Last night I was arrested in my home town, outside an event to which I had been invited, for standing lawfully on the sidewalk in an evening gown... (read more) (October 19, 2011 - Huffington Post) From Washington, DC, to San Francisco, California, a thirst for dignity is driving protest and heralding social transformation. In every major city and countless... (read more) (March/April 2011 - Mother Jones) A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average... (read more) (October 2011 - Business Insider) The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country... (read more) | 
Occupy Wall Street - The Revolution is Love
(October 10, 2011 - Mary O'Reilly) "Ever since the Arab Spring, many people here have been pining for an American Autumn," says Charles Blow in the New York Times. "The closest we've gotten so far is Occupy Wall Street." For almost four weeks, Occupy Wall Street activists have gathered in Manhattan's financial district to protest corporate greed, corruption, and social and economic inequality,...(read more)
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