Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 28, 2011.
America may not be a traditional police state (yet), but it is an increasingly militarized policed state in which rights are regularly tossed out the window.
Plainclothes cop says the NYPD response to OWS is meant to stop the next 9/11, but a newly alleged terror plot suggests the police may have put protesters at increased risk.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, AlterNet. October 31, 2011.
A participant in the Liberty Plaza occupation on the way the movement is changing and the people it's touching, from Eliot Spitzer to Baruch college freshmen.
In Zuccotti Park, occupiers do their best to handle drug use on their own terms, but it may stretch beyond their resources and give police an excuse to intervene.
Richard Pithouse, South African Civil Society Information Service . October 22, 2011.
What links Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza, the protests in Athens and Madrid and the movements in Port-au-Prince, La Plaz, Caracas and Durban, is a concern with democracy.
The movement spreading around the United States and the world is simply too big and too radical to be co-opted by political parties or establishment groups.
AlterNet reporter Gwynne experiences the life, culture, politics and challenges at Occupy Wall Street in NYC and finds an exciting, inspiring model for inclusion and change.
