Jerry Ashton

In 1988 a documentary film about the story of a man convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Texas for a murder he did not commit enabled true justice to be served -- Randall Dale Adams was released from jail a year later after attention...

I imagine that in the Main Street Media, this will be billed as, "Tree Huggers Meet Wall Street Bashers."

You can be certain that something close to this will be the spin put on the conjoining of the still-fledgling Occupy Movement with the veterans of the environmental movement -- the...

"Mayday," which is used as a distress signal and derives from the French "m'aider ("come help me"), is being given new meaning by Wall Street and its Bankers in response to the upcoming "May Day" Occupy national protests.

This May Day demonstration will be the largest of its kind...

There he is, a former six-figure "Mad Man" sleeping at night in front of a Bank of America branch in Manhattan to show his solidarity with the Occupy Movement and showing up regularly over the past seven months at his task of painting his near-famous cardboard protest signs at various...

Patriotism and protest -- inexorably bound and oftentimes indistinguishable -- have always had their say through music.

Whether it be the American Revolution ("The Liberty Song"), World War I ("Over There" competing with "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"), WWII ("God Bless America"), and the Vietnam...

In the second in a series in American Banker on JPMorgan Chase's delinquent credit card collections operation which ground to a halt in a spectacular fashion in 2009, reporter Jeff Horwitz details what the bank is learning to its horror -- you don't mess with Linda Almonte.

Linda,...

"Hip Hop was stolen from us just like the economy was stolen from Americans by Wall Street," declares famed hip-hop photographer, 'Brother Ernie' Paniccioli.

And, he finds this to be grand theft at its worst. "As close as I can determine, hip hop earns between $250-500 billion a year....

If there is one thing that most Americans might agree upon is that the debt collection industry and the work it performs ranks in status somewhere below that of a Wall Street Banker and slightly above that of a U.S. Congressman.

To a person, this industry laments this bad...

It had to happen. The Revolution had to come home.

The unquenched coals that remain of Occupy Wall Street evicted from Zuccotti Park was destined to search out the dry tinder of community disgust and outrage over the single issue that united them all -- the foreclosure of their neighbor's...

Today, November 21, Occupy Student Debt is launching a national campaign of student debt refusal. This will take place at Zuccotti Park at the "big red sculpture" at 1:30 p.m. to be followed by a CUNY/Baruch student rally at Madison Square Park at 3:00 p.m.

A concise list of cures...