Occupy Wall Street Protest

David Takes On Goliath

New York Times | Posted 05.30.2012

Sitting in a corner office high above K Street here, Dennis M. Kelleher, one of the most powerful lobbyists on financial regulatory reform, looks ever...

How Green is My Occupy? Rio+20 Enviromentalists Team With #OWS

Jerry Ashton | Posted 05.17.2012

Jerry Ashton

Occupy is rallying its foot soldiers as well as a major online army to see that the upcoming U.N. Rio+20 Earth Summit. I imagine that in the Main Street Media, this will be billed as, "Tree Huggers Meet Wall Street Bashers."

Plutonomy and the Precariat

Noam Chomsky | Posted 05.08.2012

Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won't come quickly -- it could prove a significant moment in American history.

Arrests Exceed 7,000 As the Occupy's Movement's Spring Plans Unfold Across the Nation

Chris Ernesto | Posted 05.16.2012

Chris Ernesto

ith the May Day arrests of at least 116 people at Occupy protests around the country, there have now been a minimum of 7,106 Occupy arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began in New York on September 17, 2011.

It's Springtime in America -- Can the Occupy Movement Reinvent Itself?

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.02.2012

Russell C. Smith

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.

99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County

Mary Bottari | Posted 04.30.2012

Mary Bottari

The goal: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.

A Liberal Lens: An Intimate Photo Essay of Occupy Wall Street

VC Ferry | Posted 04.27.2012

VC Ferry

Where this movement goes, I don't know, but as a photographer and one who cares about the whole, it inspires me to continue to cover it.

Banks Share Info From Robots, Security Officers, Video Surveillance As Occupy Protests Loom

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.26.2012

In a real-life situation reminiscent of many an Arnold Schwarzenegger flick, banks are using information gleaned from robots to fend off the Occupy mo...

5 Things "Mad Men" Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street And 3 Tips Madison Avenue Can Offer OWS In Return

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.23.2012

Jerry Ashton

With a creativity Madison Avenue would envy, OWS people continually invent new ways to promote the agenda and vex the establishment.

Will Occupy Make a Comeback?

Tom Allon | Posted 04.23.2012

Tom Allon

I don't know about you, but I kind of miss the Occupy Wall Street movement of last fall and wonder whether the advent of warm weather will bring back this politically-charged protest.

Embattled Police Chief Resigns After Notorious Pepper Spray Incident

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

DAVIS, Calif. — The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occu...

OccupyThisAlbum - 99 Artists on 99 Tracks for the 99%

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.17.2012

Jerry Ashton

Where are the songs for Occupy's time in history? Who will write the words and music and poetry? Will we find our voice? These questions have been answered in full and emphatically with OccupyThisAlbum.

What Is Solidarity? A Pamphleteer's Occupation

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.12.2012

Greg Ruggiero

Who in their right mind would start a new small press at a time when the economy is so bad, e-books are rising, and book stores, libraries and perhaps the printed word itself are getting shoved down the same path as vinyl records and record stores?

That Whole Occupy Wall Street Thing May Actually Be Working

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.29.2012

Though the Occupy protesters have taken their tents out of Zuccotti Park, they're still making their mark. The majority of marketing and communica...

A New Name for Occupy

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats | Posted 05.26.2012

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats

The word "occupation" suggests illegitimacy. It suggests force. It suggests a temporary and unfair arrangement. Occupiers in history don't win: it's the people whose land they occupied who are vindicated in the end.

'Join The 1%': Ad Mocks Occupy Movement

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.27.2012

This should test Occupy Wall Street's sense of humor. A commercial for Interactive Brokers, a trading service company, depicts barricaded virtual p...

What OWS Should Do Now: Out of the Parks, Into the Mainstream

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.22.2012

Danny Schechter

Propelling an "action faction" or camping as a community is not the same as challenging or remaking power. It's time to experiment with more configurations of action to make the Occupy Wall Street presence felt in more arenas of public life.

Saki Knafo

6 Months In, Occupy Looks Ahead

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.19.2012

Exactly six months after the first protestors spread out their sleeping bags in an unloved little park in Lower Manhattan, sparking a movement that sw...

6 Months Later, What Has The Occupy Movement Achieved?

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.16.2012

NEW YORK — As spring approaches, Occupy Wall Street protesters who mostly hibernated all winter are beginning to stir with plans for renewed dem...

Activist Technology Demo Day

Amelia Marzec | Posted 04.30.2012

Amelia Marzec

I recently had the opportunity to organize a demo day for activists, bringing together an energetic group of technologists, artists and designers.

Occupy London Camp Dismantled

AP/The Huffington Post | By DAVID STRINGER | Posted 02.29.2012

By DAVID STRINGER, The Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Authorities dismantled Occupy London's camp outside the famous St. Paul's Cathedral in a dra...

Occupy Movement's Latest Frontier? Vacation Destination

Posted 02.24.2012

Vacation destination Cape Cod may seem like a bizarre place for an Occupy protest, but that didn't stop demonstrators from rallying in the area known ...

Mad, Passionate Love -- and Violence

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 04.23.2012

Rebecca Solnit

Occupy might just be the name we've put on a great groundswell of popular outrage and a rebirth of civil society too deep, too broad, to be a movement. A movement is an ocean wave: this is the whole tide turning from Cairo to Moscow to Athens to Santiago to Chicago.

Move Over Colbert, There's A New Super PAC In Town

Posted 02.18.2012

One Occupy Wall Street activist wants to put the protest's money where its mouth is. (CLICK HERE FOR LIVE UPDATES) John Paul Thornton, a member ...

Jimmy Carter Casts Movement As 'Relatively Successful'

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 02.16.2012

ATLANTA -- Former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that Occupy organizers have created a "relatively successful" movement because they focused...