This Week: Beyond ALEC. PLUS: Toward May Day and a General Strike This Week: Beyond ALEC. PLUS: Toward May Day and a General Strike
This week, we look at a fight bigger than ALEC. Plus, a new partnership with Colorlines.com; The Nation’s new guide to meaningful action, and we look ahead to May Day a...
Apr 28, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Guide to May Day A Guide to May Day
This year, with the Occupy movement taking full advantage of May Day’s historic significance, we're likely to see the greatest explosion of outrage at the excesses of capital...
Apr 27, 2012 / Peter Rothberg
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Reimagining the General Strike [VIDEO] Reimagining the General Strike [VIDEO]
The general strike was once a powerful tactic for labor. Can it be revived?
Apr 27, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
Ten Things to Support Occupy on May Day—and Beyond Ten Things to Support Occupy on May Day—and Beyond
Plug into the spirit Occupy on May Day and throughout the spring.
Apr 27, 2012 / The Nation
What Feminists Can Learn From the GOP What Feminists Can Learn From the GOP
Republican opposition to the Violence Against Women Act demonstrates the power and importance including the most marginalized.
Apr 27, 2012 / Jessica Valenti
Occupy Activists Resurrect May Day for Americans Occupy Activists Resurrect May Day for Americans
Outside the US, May 1 is international workers’ day. Unions, immigrant activists and Occupiers are now resurrecting May Day for Americans.
Apr 27, 2012 / Peter Dreier
Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist Gayatri Spivak: The General Strike Is Not Reformist
Where does the idea of catastrophic change come from?
Apr 27, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
Occupy Prepares for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking Occupy Prepares for May Day: No Work, No School, No Banking
Occupy Wall Street readies for what organizers hope will be a massive protest and resurgence for the fledgling group.
Apr 27, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
This Week in Poverty: Will the Poor Get Poorer in the Land of Lincoln? This Week in Poverty: Will the Poor Get Poorer in the Land of Lincoln?
The struggle to fund cash assistance in Illinois is a case study in what's wrong with the TANF block grant.
Apr 27, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
David Stovall: What Can Hip Hop Teach Us About the World? David Stovall: What Can Hip Hop Teach Us About the World?
Hip hop and the Occupy movement have even more in common than you might think.
Apr 26, 2012 / Books & the Arts / On The Earth Productions