The Failure of Occupy Wall Street
In an election year as significant as this one, the Occupy movement is as good as dead.
In an election year as significant as this one, the Occupy movement is as good as dead.
Jerry Ashton | Posted 05.31.2012
Is Ray Lewis a renegade, or does he embody the characteristics of the "true American" that people think about when we picture "common" people in history who have stood up against powerful forces?
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Posted 05.30.2012
Even the most democratic societies are rife with social and economic inequalities, as the current tension between the poorer "99%" and the richest "1%...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.30.2012
We Cubans occupy our beds, the stairs of our houses, the piece of the table before us, the chair in front of the television, the empty refrigerator, the half open shutters we peer out of. The ground we occupy is not visible,
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012
On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...
Christopher Caen | Posted 05.25.2012
I actually support the basic premise of Occupy, and believe there wouldn't be a national discourse right now about the disparity in wealth in this country if not for Occupy. But I also believe that you have to be the change you want to see in the world.
Rinku Sen | Posted 05.29.2012
Today, Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center, released "Millennials, Activism and Race," a report on the motivations of young people...
Stuart McIntyre | Posted 05.20.2012
As costs rise, quality has stagnated, and undergraduates have been herded into giant lecture halls to be taught by graduate students and adjunct faculty. The operation of the machine has become pretty odious, but why aren't students putting their bodies on the upon the gears?
Posted 05.19.2012
From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the monumental to the day-to-day, each week, HuffPost World will present some of the most remarkable images from across th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.19.2012
Busloads of Occupy activists have been arriving in Chicago to protest the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We're trying to bring ...
Posted 05.18.2012
Long Range Acoustic Hailing Devices help cops control crowds. But whether they are potentially life-saving law enforcement tools or nefarious speech-s...
Tom Hayden | Posted 05.16.2012
Three years later, bin Laden is dead, the drones inflame Pakistan opinion and complicate a peace settlement, and 33,000 American troops are scheduled to pull out by the end of 2012 with "steady withdrawals" to continue after.
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's response to JPMorgan Chase's spectacular trading failure underscores a persistent tension in his presidency -- ...
AP | Posted 05.14.2012
ALBANY, Calif. — University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research earl...
Mark Engler | Posted 05.16.2012
It doesn't appear that 99% Spring, despite trying to ready tens of thousands of people for escalating civil disobedience, resulted in very disruptive actions in Charlotte. On the plus side, there's more than a month of spring opportunities left.
Posted 05.09.2012
Activists from Occupy Wall Street, the environmental movement and labor unions, along with victims of home foreclosures, have begun massive demonstrat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.09.2012
Dozens of good-government groups, Occupy Wall Street contingents, environmental activists, struggling homeowners and institutional investors are desce...
Posted 05.07.2012
You have seen them in marches, crowds and tents, on television, in the news and in your city. The activists of Occupy, aka "the 99%," are often seen a...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.04.2012
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Thursday backed the Simpson-Bowles proposal, which cuts entitlements, other spending and raises taxes to reduce the...
Dave Pederson | Posted 05.04.2012
Two news items popped this week that highlight the ever-growing Neo-Feudalism that has become our new economy. First, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) filed ...
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 05.03.2012
Often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. Become an alternative to the Tea Party. And then, once that happens, occupy the majority in Congress.
Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.02.2012
The Occupy movement has been in hibernation mode for several months, but with warmer weather on the horizon, odds are it will become a fixture in every major city in America during this election year.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.02.2012
Our democracy has been hijacked. The corporations and special interests pay our politicians to do their bidding instead of the people's. This legal bribery has to stop.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.02.2012
A little over six months ago, Stephanie McGuinness was camping out in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of a new movement that often shunned politicians an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.02.2012
The city of Charlotte, N.C., has announced broad restrictions on protests planned for a May 9 Bank of America shareholders meeting, citing safety conc...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.31.2012