Occupy Wall Street Movement

American Spring

Andrew Stefanik | Posted 05.24.2012

Andrew Stefanik

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NYPD: White Powder Mailed To Wells Fargo Banks Was Non-Toxic

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

NEW YORK — Police say the white powder contained in several envelopes that were mailed to various bank branches in New York City turned out to b...

Activists Target BofA Shareholder Meeting

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

* 99% Power groups says Wells Fargo excluded shareholders * Group wants to meet with CEO before May 9 meeting * Activist...

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.

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.

The Revolution Will Be Published And Made Easily Available

Posted 04.12.2012

You know what those chirping birds and blooming flowers mean? It just might be warm enough to start re-occupying. Now, there's now a handbook to he...

Global Marketplace Stifles Youth Activism

The Daily Beacon | Posted 04.11.2012

The Daily Beacon

Our environment and its expectations foster apathetic outcomes. Our time is inadequate to cite superhuman accomplishments, right society's wrongs, and have any semblance of a personal life.

Occupy's Next Crossroads

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.09.2012

Chris Weigant

What happens next is anyone's guess. Is the Occupy movement poised for a comeback? Or is it about to be co-opted altogether? Can both, in fact, happen simultaneously, and would that be a good thing or not?

Let's Stand With Working People Against the Crony Capitalists and Their Political Lackeys

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.02.2012

Allan Brawley

Early union struggles need to be remembered and appropriately re-enacted if we are to take the country back from the corporate interests that again control it, their political and judicial allies, and the complicit mainstream media.

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...

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.

NYPD Probing Threat Against Cops

AP | Posted 03.18.2012

NEW YORK -- New York City police are investigating what they say is an online threat made against police officers by an apparent Occupy protester foll...

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...

How the Fed Steals for the 1%

Tom Mullen | Posted 05.13.2012

Tom Mullen

The Occupiers mistakenly blame capitalism, but it is not capitalism that is behind this inequity. It is the completely anti-capitalist Federal Reserve System.

C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.30.2012

Peter Dreier

Few Occupy Wall Street activists have probably heard of Mills. But Mills' breakthrough ideas -- especially his notion of the "power elite" -- resonate today with the growing recognition that too much wealth and power in the hands of the superrich undermines democracy.

Talking About a Revolution or Business as Usual?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 04.28.2012

Nathan Hegedus

What seemed unthinkable in the 1990s and especially during the credit boom is now commonplace: open talk of socialism and the radical failure of market capitalism.

Responsible Banking Is Responsible Government

Richard Alarcón | Posted 04.28.2012

Richard Alarcón

The mayor, council and taxpayers need access to information about a bank's lending activity -- the good and the bad -- so we can make better decisions about who we give our business to in the future.

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.

In Phase 2, Occupy Movement Needs a More Nuanced View of Capitalism

Judith Samuelson | Posted 04.22.2012

Judith Samuelson

Excoriating corporations isn't going to bring about the changes we need. We need to delve into the incentives and the decision rules that shape behavior of those on both sides of the table.

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...

Occupy Harvard Unites Boston Student Movements

The Harvard Crimson | Posted 02.13.2012

More than 80 students from 18 college campuses around the Boston area gathered on Sunday for the Occupy Boston Student Summit held in Emerson Hall....

The Party People of Wall Street

Bill Moyers | Posted 03.31.2012

Bill Moyers

A week or so ago, we read about what in the Gilded Age of the Roman Empire was known as a bacchanal -- a big blowout at which the imperial swells got together and whooped it up. This one occurred here in Manhattan at the annual black-tie dinner and induction ceremony for Kappa Beta Phi.