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Don't Let Occupy Be Occupied: 6 Ways to Fight the Creep to Institutionalize

Harriet Barlow, AlterNet. January 25, 2012.

Crucial movements of the past with clear and radical demands suffered a diminished voice when traditional organizational standards took hold. Hopefully not Occupy.

MLK, Modern Visionary: An Illustrated Guide Why Dr. King is Still Relevant Today

blank blank, Campaign for America's Future. January 16, 2012.

This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.

'It's All Political': Eviction and Arrests of Global Revolution Livestreamers Part of Pattern of Crackdowns on Alternative Living

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. January 4, 2012.

Released from jail after their arrest at a Brooklyn collective living space, livestreamers affiliated with Occupy Wall Street tell their stories.

Ehrenreich: The Truth Exposed by Occupy Shows That the Real Elites Are the Thieves of the 1%, Not The Liberals of Conservative Myth

Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich, The Nation and TomDispatch.com. December 15, 2011.

For decades, conservatives have generated antipathy towards a so-called "liberal elite." Occupy helped America discover the 1% and their crimes.

The Destructiveness of Remote U.S Wars

William Astore, TomDispatch.com. December 8, 2011.

Here’s an American fact: the 99% are far too remote from our wars of choice and those who fight them. To reclaim the latter, we must end the former.

How the Occupy Movement Helped Americans Move Beyond Denial and Depression to Action

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. December 5, 2011.

The spirit of liberation psychology--a tradition from Latin American protest movements--has been embraced by U.S. Occupy participants.

How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

Juan Cole, Truthdig. November 23, 2011.

University students find themselves victimized by the same neoliberal agenda that has created the current economic crisis.

Shocker: Are Americans Finally Starting to Smarten Up About Climate Change?

Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. November 16, 2011.

Romney not only flip-flopped to the side of climate denial, but did so less than six months after he had said no less definitively that the world's getting warmer.

Police or Paramilitary Forces? The Militarization of American Law Enforcement

Amy Goodman, Stephen Graham, Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!. November 16, 2011.

As police violently crack down on protests across the US, we look at the increasing influence of military technology on domestic police forces.

9 Wall Street Execs Who Cashed in on the Boom—and the Bust

Andy Kroll, deleted, Mother Jones. November 8, 2011.

The "pay cap" the Obama administration put on seven bailed-out companies was largely symbolic. Here are the unaffected players still making bank off the bubble and the bailout.

Inside Occupy Wall Street: Journalist-Participant Describes What Life Is Really Like (Complicated and Inspiring) at Zuccotti Park

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. October 11, 2011.

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.