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David Takes On Goliath

2012-05-30T16:41:21Z

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...

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Camping Ban In Effect.. Sort Of

2012-05-30T15:46:15Z

After Denver city councilors passed a controversial ban on "unauthorized" camping in mid-May, critics argued the city had effectively criminalized hom...

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Larissa Heron: What Happened to Occupy Wall Street?

2012-05-30T09:15:02Z

While it's true that OWS has fewer people protesting and the media attention for the movement has dwindled, there are many people who are still engaged.

Read more: Girls-Write-Now, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Zucotti Park, Teen News

Daniel Dicker: Facebook IPO -- How Wall Street Lost the Retail Investor, Again

2012-05-28T14:16:28Z

All Wall Street needed to do was deliver a fair price -- an honest price -- to the common, middle-class investor. Instead, what they delivered was a shafting of the retail investor to the benefit of their best customers; the venture capitalists, prime brokers and inside institutions.

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Lillian Daniel: Memorial Day Was Meant To Reconcile

2012-05-28T08:05:05Z

Here in my city of Chicago, as NATO gathers amid displays of military force as well as protests, I pray for comfort for all those who have lost a loved one to the ravages of war. I pray that the peace of Christ, which passes all human understanding, will knit together this weary and war-torn world.

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BofA Gives Family With Special Needs Daughter Break On Foreclosed Home

2012-05-26T23:07:03Z

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...

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

Occupy Wall Street-Affiliated Group Sides With Federal Judge In SEC Feud

2012-05-24T18:12:47Z

A group affiliated with Occupy Wall Street has come to the defense of a federal judge who is on the ropes in his fight with the Securities and Exchang...

Read more: Video, Securities and Exchange Commission, Judge Jed Rakoff, Citigroup, Occupy Wall Street, Jed Rakoff, Business News

Carl Gibson: Cut It Out: An Open Letter to Black Bloc Anarchists

2012-05-24T17:53:05Z

You didn't stop war, end capitalism, or even get close to the NATO summit. All you did was attract more riot police to an otherwise peaceful event, leading to kettlings, beatings and arrests. Way to go.

Read more: Chicago NATO Summit, Veterans for Peace, Nonviolence, Nato Summit 2012, Occupy Wall Street, Black Bloc, Police Brutality, Agent Provocateur, Anarchists, Chicago News

Joseph A. Palermo: Which Wall Street Party Do You Want to Vote For?

2012-05-24T14:54:22Z

It's an uphill climb for Obama to even mildly criticize Mitt Romney for being a vulture capitalist given his lack of accomplishment in holding anyone on Wall Street accountable for the economic carnage they wreaked.

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Bill Clinton, Cory Booker, Ed Rendell, President Obama, Wall Street, Mitt Romney 2012, Bain Capital, MF Global, Occupy Wall Street, Larry Summers, John Corzine, Jamie Dimon, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

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

2012-05-24T13:32:55Z

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

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

Jason Wojciechowski: Bono, Occupy And The Challenge Of Following The Jesus Of The Oppressed

2012-05-24T12:24:22Z

We should commend his service and giving for social good just as we might the activist, but none of this should shadow the reality that poverty and injustice exist because of an unjust system that favors victors with spoils and curses the less fortunate with misery.

Read more: Tony Campolo, Poverty, ONE Campaign, Occupy Wall Street, Jesus, Bono, Charity, Occupy Faith, Philanthropy, Christianity, Religion News

OWS Sues NYC Over 3,000 Confiscated Books

2012-05-24T11:01:00Z

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against New York City, claiming authori...

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Andrew Stefanik: American Spring

2012-05-24T10:55:52Z

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Rob Kall: An Occupy Wall Street-eyed Review of The Avengers Movie and the Future of Movies

2012-05-23T10:27:11Z

I had to go see the movie, The Avengers. But the past year's Occupy Wall Street experience gave me new eyes and it brought me to an epiphany. Superheroes serve the 1%. They serve the top down powers that are waging a massive war with the 99% -- we on the bottom.

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Ellen Brown: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia

2012-05-22T19:17:44Z

Why does there always seem to be enough money for military expansion, prisons, bank bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy, but not enough for education -- or for jobs, housing, healthcare, or old age pensions?

Read more: Public Schools, Public Banking, Philadelphia Schools Close, Philadelphia Schools, Taxpayers Education, Occupy Wall Street, Education Spending, Business News

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

2012-05-22T10:04:00Z

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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O'Reilly Rages: Occupy Are 'Terrorists'

2012-05-22T09:11:51Z

Bill O'Reilly said on his Monday show that the Occupy movement was being carried out by "terrorists."

Using the recent protests at the NATO summit ...

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Occupy Activists Declare Victory In Chicago

2012-05-21T19:00:53Z

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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Pearl Korn: With the Affordable Care Act Hanging by a Thread, It's Time for Single-Payer

2012-05-21T17:55:03Z

Progressives and all other rational human beings should ramp up their efforts to build the movement for single-payer and work to ignite the Occupy movement on this issue.

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Bill Moyers: WATCH: Tom Morello's Occupy 'Guitarmy'

2012-05-21T16:05:22Z

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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Just In Time For Democratic Convention: 'See Something, 'Say Something' Starts In Charlotte

2012-05-21T12:29:44Z

The Department of Homeland Security said it is expanding its "If You See Something, Say Something" public awareness campaign to Charlotte, N.C., just ...

Read more: Video, Charlotte-North Carolina, Democratic National Convention, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Occupy Wall Street, Elections 2012, See Something Say Something, Dhs, Politics News

Nancy Alvarez: What's My Place In These Troubling Times?

2012-05-21T12:10:00Z

Because of the sudden death of a friend a few months ago, I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about what really matters to me in life, as well as how I spend the hours in every one of my days. At my age, in this time, what is my place in this troubling world?

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Peter Dreier: Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"

2012-05-20T22:19:51Z

The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices.

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Peter Scher, Bank of America, Pete Stark, Wall Street, Financial Speculation Tax, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, National People's Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Jamie Dimon, Timothy Geithner, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Politics News

Stuart McIntyre: 3 Reasons There Wasn't an American Spring

2012-05-20T19:28:55Z

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?

Read more: American Spring, College Tuition, Occupy, Higher Education, Activism, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Occupy Wall Street, College News

April Salchert: Facebook Rehab: Congratulations Mark, I'm Leaving

2012-05-20T16:34:20Z

As Mr. Zuckerberg enjoys his Wall Street campaign and wedding nuptials, I am disappearing into the social media shadows. As an activity, it dangerously toes a line of ridiculous social behavior.

Read more: Friendship, Social Media, Philanthropy, Bbc, Wall Street, Charity, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Facebook Privacy, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Technology News