How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.
Egypt: Tear Gas May Be Non-lethal But It’s Lethal to Democracy
Egyptian protesters outraged by military’s use of U.S. tear gas.
Misrepresenting Occupy Wall Street
Even the Anti-Defamation League denies that the Occupy movement is infused with anti-Semitism, but ultra-conservative pundits are sticking with that non-story anyway.
The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion
Still another financial firm has tallied how much net worth is sloshing in the pockets of the world’s most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting and start the taxing?
Author Event: America Beyond Capitalism
Celebrate the release of the new edition of Gar Alperovitz’ America Beyond Capitalism, a sweeping analysis of the emerging long-term pathways toward an evolutionary reconstruction of our economic system. Thousands of experiments across the country are building new forms of cooperative and community controlled economic institutions and quietly laying the groundwork for a transition away from capitalism, to a new system grounded in ecological sustainability, the democratization of wealth, and real democracy.
Occupy Mayors: Where do They Stand?
These mayors have a decision to make about who they stand with: The 1% or the 99%.
The Wolf, The Wool and The 99%
IPS’ Karen Dolan sheds light on who is crying wolf and trying to pull the wool over our eyes, the 99%.
For Real Change, Build Relationships: Resilience Circles & Occupy Wall Street
Resilience Circles talk about social action as something members can do as a group, not just as isolated individuals. Occupy takes that understanding of social change and magnifies it to a huge scale.
Not Our Golf Games! CEO Worries Reach New Levels
The rich and their handlers are doing a good deal more than rethink security. They’re recalibrating their ideological defenses.
Seoul Salvation
The first politician of the Occupy Wall Street era has become the mayor of Seoul.
The 99 Percent Have Found Our Voice
These are days of action in more than 400 occupied places across the nation. As we change the national conversation, we can dismantle the barriers to change.
The World Is Finally Fighting Off the Infection of Neoliberalism
The immediate progenitors to Occupy Wall Street are international: from Tunisia and Egypt to Wisconsin.
Occupy Wall Street: New Politics and New Milestones
The Occupy Wall Street movement claimed a little scrap of earth in Zuccotti Park on behalf of all of us, and created a live-in soapbox from which to challenge inequality.