Did Sandy save Occupy?
"Occupy Sandy has cooked and distributed between 10 and 15 thousand meals each day; enlisted more than 7,000 volunteers; created three major distribution hubs from which it dispatches both workers and...
View ArticleWith Occupy Sandy Relief, Occupy Wall Street Becomes a Movement
When Occupy Wall Street pitched up at Zucotti Park in New York over a year ago, many people, even those of us involved, doubted it would be much more than a predictable street battle with the cops...
View ArticleTo the Precinct Station: How theory met practice …and drove it absolutely...
There is a scene I always recall when I try to remember the exhilarating effect that Occupy Wall Street had on me when it was first getting going. I was on a subway train in Washington, D.C., reading...
View ArticleFailing to unveil Capitalism at Occupy - Paulo Freire’s Theoretical Framework
The Occupy movement may have come into our lives just over a year ago with a bang but it went out months later with a whimper. Cathal Larkin uses the benefit of hindsight to look at the phenomenon as...
View ArticleA Eulogy for #Occupy
My first day covering Occupy was also my first eviction. I went down to see the protest’s midday march on October 5, 2011 in San Francisco. It was huge — the biggest thing I’d seen since the 2003...
View ArticleThe “People’s Bailout” Was Just the Beginning: What’s Next for Strike Debt?
Thomas Gokey is one of the creators of Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee, which is preparing to purchase and cancel $9 million of ordinary people’s medical debt. Here, he speaks about the project’s origins,...
View ArticleHow Occupy Wall Street got religion
A year ago around this time, Occupy Wall Street was celebrating Advent — the season when Christians anticipate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. In front of Trinity Church, right at the top of Wall...
View ArticleAs Minneapolis drops riot charges, Occupy looks to go on the legal offensive
On Monday, the last of the Occupy activists facing riot charges over the Cruz home protests arrived at a courtroom for trial, joined by about 50 supporters. If convicted, the four defendants --...
View ArticleFBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy...
View ArticleSolidarity After Sandy
The morning after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, leaving in its wake severe damage and more than 100 deaths, members of Occupy Wall Street hit the streets. Volunteers went out into New York City...
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FBI Investigated Occupy Movement as 'Domestic Terrorists, Criminals'
The FBI organized a nationwide law enforcement investigation and monitoring of the Occupy Wall Street movement beginning in August of 2011.Just released heavily-redacted documents revealing the FBI's...
View ArticleFBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement...
View ArticleFBI Surveillance Of Occupy Wall Street Detailed
WASHINGTON -- Was Tim Franzen stockpiling weapons? What was Tim Franzen's philosophy? What was his political affiliation? Did Tim Franzen ever talk about violent revolution? The Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleFBI acted as secret police for banks against OWS 'anarchists' & 'terrorists'
The FBI or DHS secretly meeting with Wall Street and bankers to discuss “anarchists” who were sometimes considered “terrorists”? Surely not, as the next thing you know Hollywood will be in control of...
View ArticleOccupy Everyone: Making Revolutionaries, Not a Revolution
Occupy Sandy has been lauded as more American than FEMA. Strike Debt, an Occupy offshoot, is pioneering the "Rolling Jubilee" of debt forgiveness to the adoration of publications like Business Insider....
View ArticleImagining a ‘Just Recovery’ from Superstorm Sandy
Three months have passed since Hurricane Sandy battered New York and trashed the New Jersey coastline, and she hasn’t left. She’s still stalking the landscape strafed with mold and broken homes, and...
View ArticleDC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title
Eighteen months after the phrase first entered the collective public consciousness, the plight of the 99 percent is coming to mainstream superhero comics — via a new series from the second biggest...
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Occupy Movement Files Lawsuit Against Every Federal Regulator of Wall Street
In several respects, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the feminist movement. Corporate funded media has declared the women’s rights movement dead ad nauseam for four decades — and yet it thrives and...
View ArticleDHS Emails Question Federal Law Enforcement's Role in Violence at Occupy Wall...
More than a year after tens of thousands of people aligned themselves with Occupy Wall Street to protest economic and social inequality and corporate influence on government, the public still does not...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy Funds Growth of Worker-Owned Co-Ops
Three and a half months ago, the walls upstairs at the Church of the Prophecy in Far Rockaway, a low-income coastal neighborhood of New York City, were covered with maps of where help was most needed....
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