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.
Congress has removed nearly every consumer protection from student loans, including bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations and truth in lending requirements.
Sarah Jaffe, Mike Konczal, David Graeber, Astra Taylor, Brian Kalkbrenner, N+1 Magazine. May 8, 2012.
David Graeber, Mike Konczal, Sarah Jaffe and Brian Kalkbrenner discuss debt--what it is, why we're drowning in it, why it's a political issue. Moderated by Astra Taylor.
After getting arrested for smoking marijuana on 4/20, 23-year-old Daniel Chong was forgotten in his cell for days, leaving him forced to drink his own urine.
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.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.
Occupy changed over the winter from outdoor camps to internal work and debates. But that laid the groundwork for a very big spring. Here's what to expect.
The students came for a summer learning experience with a job at a classic American company. Instead, they got a crash course in the realities of the global economy.
I am aware of the total lack of consumer protection associated with student debt. But I took a long, hard look at the numbers, and I realized that I am already a slave.
Just days after the brutal raid on the Occupy movement's home base in Liberty Plaza, a huge day of action is planned to take the movement to another level.
David Graeber, Comment Is Free. September 26, 2011.
Is it really surprising that young protesters on Wall Street and around the world would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?
