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This week, the American Spring began. It was a celebration of what's best in America -- civic community and self-expression. But last night I also saw the worst of America. I saw police do everything they could to suppress our right to express ourselves and gather freely.
After a winter of extensive planning, the Occupy movement will launch its own online news site later this month. Occupy.com, which has the associative meaning of "occupying the commons," will go online in late March
A coalition of activist organizations demonstrating at the Monsanto office in Davis CA. successfully caused a shutdown of the multinational chemical and biotech company offices there on on Saturday, March 17.
By: Noah J. Nelson As social media comes of age, a host of platforms for social engagement and online organizing are making their presence ...
Talk is cheap. In this business you get what you pay for in blood, toil, sweat, tears, passion, idealism, activism, commitment and, yes, you better believe it, in money.
Organizers of the three-day Midwest Occupy Conference claim that conference participants were subjected to police brutality and that their First Amendment rights were violated Thursday night when law enforcement officers with batons aggressively attacked a group of 150 demonstrators who were marching out of Compton Hill Reservoir Park at 10:48 p.m.
Congratulations Greg Smith for waking up. However, we already knew about the toxic state of the financial culture. We are living through its consequences. It's time for the rest of the bankers to be forced to look in the mirror and for us to take action against them.
Governor Jerry Brown has dealt away some potential problems on the left to strengthen his chances of passing a revenue initiative in November.
On Ash Wednesday, churches in San Francisco announced they were removing $10 million from Wells Fargo and called on the bank "to put an immediate freeze on its foreclosures and repent for their misconduct." The effort is part of several national campaigns to get consumers and community groups to remove their money from the big banks and transfer accounts to credit unions and smaller financial institutions. We're told that the banks, desperate when thrown a lifeline by taxpayers in 2008, are now stronger and better able to weather a crisis than they were. And yet, they continue to scream in protest and lobby on Capitol Hill against the ignominy of reform. Simple greed -- hey banks, how about giving that up for Lent?
"I am endorsing Romney because we need to win," former New York senator Al D' AmatoD' Amato, said outside the Waldorf-Astoria today. "We need to get a new president." But the anti-Romney passion of protestors outside the hotel was significantly more enthusiastic than D' Amato's pro-Romney passion.
Ask any six-year-old what is fair, and they will have rather clear answers. As Occupy Wall Street is looking for new directions, promoting fairness should top the list.
The struggle goes on -- in Capetown and Durban and Pretoria, in Oakland and Manhattan and Los Angeles, in the hearts and minds of souls of people who fight despair and corruption in the cities, towns, and villages of the world.
The Occupiers mistakenly blame capitalism, but it is not capitalism that is behind this inequity. It is the completely anti-capitalist Federal Reserve System.
As I write this op-ed, I primp for the mirror -- looking for the most flattering pose -- for my mug shot. Now, don't get the wrong impression; I have...
I will be in Geneva next week making the case for the financial crisis as a crime against humanity, an international offense that the U.N. was set up to prevent and now even prosecutes, however sparingly, in the International Criminal Court.
Economic inequality will lead to greater political inequality, and those who are further empowered politically will use this to gain a greater economic advantage by stacking the cards in their favor -- a quintessential vicious circle.
