Occupation

Why Peter Beinart's Book Is Driving the "Pro-Israel" Establishment Crazy

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.29.2012

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MJ Rosenberg

The difference between Netanyahu and most Israelis, I believe, is that for them the situation today is nothing like the situation in the 1940s. Israel is not the Warsaw Ghetto, a comparison that insults both the memory of the Holocaust and Israel itself.

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PHOTO: 99% Problems: Jay-Z Lampooned In OWS Sculpture

Posted 11.23.2011

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Jay-Z's lyrics attest that "money ain't a thang," a philosophy that doesn't go over so well with the 99% over at Occupy Wall Street. As a grand symbol...

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PHOTO: Does This #OWS Poster Go Too Far?

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Protest Art, Occupy Wall Street Posters, Chinese Protest, Tiananmen Square, New York, Communism, Occupation, Ows Posters, Protest, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, Tank Man, Posters, China, Occupy Wall Street Poster, Arts News

A poster for Occupy Wall Street's (OWS) November 17 'Day of Action' seems to compare OWS to the historic 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing,...

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Ambiguous UpSparkles From the Heart of the Park: Mic Check/Occupy Wall Street (Part 3)

Eve Ensler | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupation, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, New York News
Eve Ensler

It was cold this week in Zuccotti Park, so we occupiers huddled together on the concrete steps for warmth, to make it easier to hear, to allow the stories to pass amongst us and through us. We repeated each line of each person's story and the repeating kept us warm.

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Your Protest Sign Could End Up In The Smithsonian

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: American Museum, Historical Museums, Occupation Success, Occupation, Occupy Wall Street, Historical Movements, Ows, Smithsonian Museum, Protest Historical, Smithsonian, Occupy, Occupy Dc, American Protest, Arts News

Each day, Occupy Wall Street grows larger and the question persists: will this movement change history? The Smithsonian thinks it might. The Smiths...

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It's Finally Over -- and It Was Wrong

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.27.2011

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Jim Wallis

The initial feelings that rushed over me after hearing the announcement that we're pulling out of Iraq were of deep relief. But then they turned to deep sadness over the terrible cost of a war that was always wrong: intellectually, politically, strategically and, above all, morally.

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The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society

Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.22.2011

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Naomi Wolf

Michael Bloomberg is flat wrong, and he doubtless knows it but hopes you won't notice: New Yorkers have no right to be free of any disruption from the peaceful but disruptive free-speech actions of their fellow citizens.

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Ambiguous UpSparkles From The Heart Of The Park: Mic Check/Occupy Wall Street (Part 2)

Eve Ensler | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupation, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, New York News
Eve Ensler

What I heard in each person I spoke to in Zuccotti Park was a much deeper vision and hunger, not for fixing or reform but for something new, something they would have a hand in, something radical, from the roots, from the park.

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Occupy Chicago: Tent City Raid Leads to 175 Arrests

Mark Cassello | Posted 12.17.2011

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Mark Cassello

Demanding their constitutional right to free assembly, the crowd of about 150 non-violent demonstrators waited patiently for the slow moving police procession to reach them.

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An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.13.2011

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Jim Wallis

You have awakened the sleeping giant, too long dormant, but ever present, deep in the American democratic spirit. You have given voice and space to the unspoken feelings of countless others about something that has gone terribly wrong in our society.

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Activists 'Occupy' Midtown's Fountains

| Jill Colvin | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Occupation, Occupy Wall Street, New York News

MIDTOWN -- Activists made a splash Monday afternoon, "occupying" fountains across Midtown in a mass celebration meant to put the public back in public...

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Top 12 Most Overrated Careers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.11.2011

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Last week's job report revealed that the unemployment rate stayed stuck above 9 percent for yet another month. As scores of Americans look for work th...

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Building a Better Occupation -- Through the Occupation

Maria Armoudian | Posted 12.03.2011

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Maria Armoudian

The Occupiers of Wall Street have good reason to be angry. So do the rest of Americans who are not participating in the demonstrations. As noted by co...

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Why Aren't Americans in the Streets? Where Is the American Autumn?

Nathan Schneider | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: American Spring, Arab Spring, Wall Street, Egypt Revolution, Occupation, Afghanistan War, Protest, Politics News
Nathan Schneider

Americans may not be out on the streets yet, but they're planning on it. Just wait -- or get involved. People are organizing. The more they prepare, the more likely they are to carry out actions worthy of their goals.

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USA & Iraq: Preparing for the Long Term

James Denselow | Posted 09.14.2011

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James Denselow

After 8 years and a significant decrease in violence from the peak of the civil conflict with attacks down from an average of 49 a day in 2008 to 14 now, the media has grown deaf to the casual horror the country faces.

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Iranian Women Take the Wheel

Turnstyle | Posted 08.17.2011

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Did AIPAC Warn Obama to Back Off Israel?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 08.16.2011

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MJ Rosenberg

AIPAC's latest message was probably not designed to keep Obama in line. It was designed to make sure that the 3 percent of American Jewish voters who make their decisions on who to back for president based on Israel do.

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Career Options for Creatives (Finding a Job)

Karen Atkinson | Posted 07.27.2011

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Karen Atkinson

Many artists hold down a number of jobs in their life. The key is to find a job that allows you to keep making your work and that is satisfying or at least challenging.

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Progressives Should Support Israel

Steve Sheffey | Posted 05.30.2011

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Steve Sheffey

The progressive movement has been tarred by a vocal minority that seeks to criticize Israel at every opportunity. It's time for the progressive commun...

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Israel Must Get the Monkey of Occupation off its Back

Lara Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Mideast Peace Process, Occupation, Settlements, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Egypt Protests, Israeli Occupation, Egypt Israel Gaza, Egypt Israel, Israel 2011, Israel Settlements, Politics News
Lara Friedman

Although the events that swept through Egypt in recent weeks had little to do with Israel, they still hold profound lessons.

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Uncle Sam and the Shrink: A "Palestine Papers" Drama, in One Act

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandy Tolan

Earlier this week, Al Jazeera released a decade's worth of memos, emails, maps and minutes from high-level negotiations between the United States, Isr...

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Kill the "Peace Game"

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sharmine Narwani

This century-long Israeli-Palestinian battle over territory threatens to draw the entire global community into its bowels. The only way out of the current paralysis is to kill the "peace process" once and for all.

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The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg Despairs About Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Middle East, Occupation, Jeffrey Goldberg, Gaza War, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel-Palestine, Israel Democracy, World News
MJ Rosenberg

Goldberg has had an epiphany: if Israel continues on its current course, it is finished. Although in the past, he always believed that Israel would choose democracy over occupation, he is no longer sure.

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Listening to Palestinians

Nancy Kanwisher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Kanwisher

Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires not only a grasp of cold facts and statistics, but an understanding of the daily experience of the real people who live on each side. I spoke to Palestinians on a recent trip.

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Thanksgiving, Tikkun Olam, And U.S. Jews Breaking The Israel Barrier

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, New Orleans, Occupation, Richard Goldstone, Thanksgiving, Bradley Burston, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Bds, Haaretz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Barack Obama, Israel, Tikkun Olam, West Bank, World News
Bradley Burston

Thanksgiving is itself an act of Tikkun Olam. It celebrates the bridging of fierce differences, the coming together of seeming opposites, the idea that helping people takes precedence over barriers of creed.

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