Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Zoltán Glück, Waging Nonviolence. May 27, 2012.
The core issues at stake here are the same ones that students and workers around the world are facing right now: austerity and the increasing privatization of education.
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party didn't succeed by electing candidates--it succeeded showing the limitations of the electoral system. Occupy should do the same.
Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch.com. January 22, 2012.
Consider this, then, an environmental Occupy Wall Street. It knows no divisions of social class or political affiliation. Everyone, after all, needs clean water.
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. October 19, 2011.
An open letter to Mohammed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation set off the Tunisian revolution, about the beautiful movements that have sprung up in the wake of his death.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. January 1, 2011.
We can have the kind of economy, government, environment, and country we want, if we keep pushing, organizing, building, and otherwise doing the work of democracy.
President Obama abandoned the movement that started under his campaign. Here is look at what is required, and how a version of it is forming in California.