Occupy Movement

Occupy Wall Street at Valley Forge Occupy Wall Street at Valley Forge

A (self-) graduation speech for the Occupiers at Zuccotti Park.

Oct 31, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt

Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice Paul Ryan Can’t Hear the Catholic Church’s Call for Economic Justice

The church has proposed a financial transaction tax in order to steer the economy “towards achieving the common good.” Is that class warfare?

Oct 30, 2011 / John Nichols

Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood Katrina vanden Heuvel: End Corporate Personhood

A very specific and concrete proposal has caught on like wildfire in Occupy encampments across the nation: Amend the Constitution to end corporate personhood.

Oct 28, 2011 / Press Room

Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class

Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class

Why do austerity measures remain so popular within the beltway while the overwhelming evidence in the rest of the country points to the fact that such measures increase unemploymen...

Oct 28, 2011 / The Nation

Solidarity Teach-Ins at a College Near You Solidarity Teach-Ins at a College Near You

Starting November 2, schools across the nation will participate in teach-ins about Occupy Wall Street in hopes of continuing and extending the dialogue that was started by the Oc...

Oct 27, 2011 / StudentNation / Natalia Abrams

Ball of Confusion Ball of Confusion

Alterman on Motown and Reed on Tom Waits and the 99 percent.

Oct 27, 2011 / Eric Alterman

How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Stirred a New Wave of Dissent How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Stirred a New Wave of Dissent

The violence in Oakland has provoked a global outcry, as activists ask how a Marine can survive Iraq only to be seriously injured while peacefully protesting on the streets of an A...

Oct 27, 2011 / John Nichols

‘It’s Up To Us’: Occupy Colleges Gains Traction

‘It’s Up To Us’: Occupy Colleges Gains Traction ‘It’s Up To Us’: Occupy Colleges Gains Traction

There is nothing more important than participating in the largest demonstration of social change in our lives.

Oct 27, 2011 / StudentNation / Krystie Yandoli

Occupy Earth: Environmentalism in Zuccotti Park

Occupy Earth: Environmentalism in Zuccotti Park Occupy Earth: Environmentalism in Zuccotti Park

It’s not hard to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip.

Oct 27, 2011 / Chip Ward

Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed and the Beginnings of Class Warfare

Those three decades of rampant upper-crust greed unleashed by the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s will be well marked by future historians recording the death of the American dream.

Oct 27, 2011 / Robert Scheer

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