Series: Occupy Year II
Last week, Lopi LaRoe received a letter threatening her with jail time and thousands of dollars in fines for enlisting Smokey to the anti-fracking cause.More
It was only in the cracks of the World Social Forum — the spaces in between — that I found the possibility of another world.More
The Laundry Workers' Center offers a model for how to organize worker power in precarious industries.More
Many in Far Rockaway, Queens, lost their jobs after Hurricane Sandy, but a new cooperative initiative hopes to rebuild the economy with residents in power.More
“You're going to miss me when I'm gone.” Those words were posted on Facebook by Kimani Gray shortly before he was killed by undercover police officers.More
We often forget to ask what may be the most important questions about movements and new technology: Who made the technology, who controls it, and how?More
My first experience with the Idle No More phenomenon came on Dec. 21, 2012, at Toronto’s Yonge and Dundas Square. The sight of round dances and the sound of drum circles offered a stark contrast to the flashing lights and billboards that surround the city’s commercial epicenter.More
“We are about to take this house over, okay?” shouted Reneka Wheeler, speaking slowly and emphasizing each word as she stood in front of a vacant house in southwest Atlanta two weeks ago.More
A year ago around this time, Occupy Wall Street was celebrating Advent — the season when Christians anticipate the birth of Jesus at Christmas.More
The stakes are high for people in the Rockaways. More than month and a half after Superstorm Sandy, winter is setting in and many of the ten thousand residents of this Queens neighborhood still lack heat or electricity.More
