One of the most important characteristics of the Occupy movement is the expanding universe of media makers --citizen journalists, livestreamers, artists and others.
In a new memoir, Ghonim describes how the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found their voice. Here, he discusses with Terrence McNally.
Through Project Citizen, a curriculum designed to promote civic engagement among youth, students are learning that their voices matter -- within their communities, and beyond.
Better technology is not sufficient to build a better society. To really change lives, corporations must use their work force to improve democracy and equality.
Gar Alperovitz, Dollars and Sense. January 3, 2012.
Thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.
They won't tell us who they are, but they are spending tens of millions as part of 'Americans Elect' to nominate and to field an 'Independent' presidential candidate in 2012.
Bill Moyers, Berrett-Koehler Publishers. December 11, 2011.
Bill Moyers reminds us that repairing American democracy begins with reasserting that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as citizens.
Michael Hudson, Michael Hudson's blog. December 6, 2011.
Recent debt protests from Iceland to Greece and Spain suggest that creditors are shifting their support away from democracies and crushing national self-determination.
Democracy is not something we have but something we do, together; how we organize ourselves and relate to and behave with each other. And it's not unique to humans.
Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don't have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people's movement.
Sam Pizzigati, Campaign for America's Future. July 24, 2011.
By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances.
Wealthy nations holding the purse strings are influencing events from afar, subjecting humiliating conditions on those countries undergoing profound social change.
Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, AlterNet. May 20, 2011.
There he was, the leader of the largest empire in history, praising the power of peaceful protest in countries with repressive leaders backed by his own administration.
Frank L. Cocozzelli, Talk To Action. April 18, 2011.
A key debate in the Catholic Church tracks with a larger question facing American society: whether to cede freedom to a central power that wants less accountability.
