Occupy Movement

BofA Gives Family With Special Needs Daughter Break On Foreclosed Home

Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Cerebral Palsy, Occupy Wall Street, Bank of America, Dirma Rodriguez, Foreclosure, Occupy Fights Foreclosures, Occupy Movement, Suzanne O'keeffe, Good News News

There's finally some good news for Dirma Rodriguez and her three children. The family was evicted from the Los Angeles home they'd lived in for ove...

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Saki Knafo

Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protestors

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Cruzy Family Raid, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Eviction Protests, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family Minnesota, Ows, Foreclosure, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Minneapolis, Foreclosure Protests, Business News

On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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When Reporters Were Allegedly Attacked in Chicago, the Rights of All of Us Were Violated

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Journalists, Iraq Veterans, First Amendment, Chicago Police Department, War in Iraq, US Troops Afghanistan, Anti-War, Afghanistan War, Occupy Movement, Media News
Richard Schiffman

The dozens of veterans who tossed their medals in Chicago earlier this week deserve to have their protest recorded. Theirs was an act of valor and courage which was arguably equal if not greater to the deeds which earned them those medals in the first place.

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What Fires Young Progressives' Activism? A New Study Asks Them

Rinku Sen | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Politics, Youth Vote, Activism, People of Color, Occupy Wall Street, Millennials, Occupy, Race, Youth Activism, Occupy Movement, Minorities, Politics News
Rinku Sen

Today, Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center, released "Millennials, Activism and Race," a report on the motivations of young people...

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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like

Carl Gibson | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Nato Summit 2012, Nato Chicago Protest, Nato Protesters, Ndaa Due Process, Occupy Movement, Police Chicago Protest, Politics News
Carl Gibson

The historic street demonstrations of 2012 will be meaningless unless citizens use the power of the vote this year to remove the worst offenders from office. They can start with the representatives and senators who voted no to due process rights.

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Anarchists, Cops, the Super Rich -- It's New York 100 Years Ago

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Ludlow Massacre, Emma Goldman, The One Percent, American History, Progressive Movement, Weather Underground, New York City, Anarchy, John D. Rockefeller, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, New York History, More Powerful Than Dynamite, Book Review, Books News
Rick Ayers

In More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, many will find parallels to the current social crises, from the upheavals of Occupy Wall Street to the manipulations of the super rich.

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Saki Knafo

Occupy Activists Declare Victory In Chicago

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Occupy Nato, Interoccupy, Occupy Chicago, Nato Summit 2012, Rahm Emanuel, Nato, Occupy Wall Street, Suicide Girls, Nato Summit, Nicole Powers, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Chicago News

As Occupy activists from around the country begin heading home to their respective cities after a weekend of protests in Chicago, many say the massive...

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WATCH: Tom Morello's Occupy 'Guitarmy'

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.21.2012

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Bill Moyers

An army of guitarists took to the streets of New York City earlier this month as part of Occupy Wall Street's May Day resurgence. Led by former Rage A...

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Saki Knafo

The Occupy Movement Descends On Chicago For NATO Summit

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.19.2012

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Busloads of Occupy activists have been arriving in Chicago to protest the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We're trying to bring ...

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

Jerry Ashton | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Environmental Justice, Environmentalists, Rio De Janeiro, Occupy Wall Street, United Nations, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Climate, Occupy Rio+20, New York News
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."

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50 Percent of the 99 Percent

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Income Inequality, Occupy Movement, Inequality, Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic, Srilatha Batliwala, World News
Laura Carlsen

Where are women in the global economic crisis?

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If Only it Were 99 Percent -- or Even 80 Percent -- Versus the Rich

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Economy, Occupy Movement, 99 Percent, Corporate America, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Protests, Wealth Disparity, Shrinking Middle Class, Wealth Gap, Politics News
Bernard Starr

Without the restoration of middle class jobs for Americans, the lights will not go back on and support for education will continue to fade.

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Challenging Cuba's Totalitarian State From the Left

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Das Kapital, Patriot Union of Cuba, Pedro Campos, Karl Marx, Jose Daniel Ferrer, Critical Observatory, Occupy Movement, Cuba, World News
Yoani Sanchez

This country, stuck in political inertia, needs to get moving, urgently needs to embark on the path of pluralism and democracy. Cuba must begin to move.

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Police Raid Occupy Camp On UC Berkeley Land

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: UC Berkely Occupy Movement, UC Berkeley Occupy Raid, Occupy Raid, Occupy, Occupy Camp, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, College News

ALBANY, Calif. — University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research earl...

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The 99 Percent Arts

Robert Bettmann | Posted 05.14.2012

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Robert Bettmann

The arts are positively integrated into the Occupy Movement in several ways, but they are also a front on which activists are attacking the economic system.

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Occupy Comes to Moscow

Tomas Hirst | Posted 05.10.2012

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Tomas Hirst

Police have stepped up their efforts to contain and disperse street protests, including through mass arrests, while the protesters themselves have taken to drifting around the city in order to evade their pursuers.

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PHOTOS: Protesters Swarm BofA Shareholder Meeting

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bank of America Shareholder Protests, Bank of America Shareholders Meeting, Bank of America Shareholders, Occupy Wall Street, Business News, Bank of America Protests, Slideexpand, Bank of America Foreclosures, Occupy Movement, Business News

Americans angry at Bank of America tried to communicate their frustration to the bank on Wednesday, quite literally. Protesters gathered outside o...

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Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities?

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Food, University of California Berkeley, Occupy the Food Supply, Sustainable Food, Occupy Movement, Food News
Eric Holt Gimenez

The occupiers demand UC Berkeley halt plans for further sale and private development of what was once the site of its renowned International Center for Biological Control.

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Plutonomy and the Precariat

Noam Chomsky | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Global Depression, Global Recession, Future Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupy Movement Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, Occupy May Day, Politics News
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.

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'They Came To My Home Like I Was A Drug Dealer'

AlterNet | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Politics News, Foreclosure Crisis, Eviction, Occupy Wall Street, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Movement, Home Foreclosures, Politics News

Four generations of a Georgia family were evicted at gunpoint by dozens of sheriffs and deputies at 3am last week in an Atlanta suburb. The eyebrow-ra...

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Why Occupy Can't -- and Shouldn't -- Become the Progressive Tea Party

Max Berger | Posted 05.04.2012

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Max Berger

If Occupy tried to start a left Tea Party, we would be following in the footsteps of several progressive movement efforts that came up short.

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America: Home of the Bewildered Serf and Land of the Feudal Lords.

Dave Pederson | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Adam Davidson, Debt, JP Morgan, Ed Conard, Neo-Feudalism, Class Warfare, Ronald Reagan, Bain Capital, Ows, Mitt Romney, Trickle-Down Economics, Arthur Laffer, Economic Inequality, Reaganomics, Occupy Movement, Nypd, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, Politics News
Dave Pederson

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 ...

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Occupy a Wing of the Democratic Party

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 05.03.2012

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Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm

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.

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

Chris Ernesto | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Protest, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
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.

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May Day Media Mayhem

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: New York Times, May Day, Occupy Movement, Austerity, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage, May Day General Strike, General Strike, Ows, Occupy Wall Street Coverage, Media News
Benjamin R. Barber

Media hypocrisy about the Occupy Wall Street movement is old news. But the New York Times hit the "refresh" button once again with its coverage of the May Day demonstrations in New York and around the country on May 2.

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