Declaring Independence
Over the last year, Occupy Wall Street has acquired a number of labels: “progressive,” “inclusive,” and “idealist” on one hand, and “directionless,” “naive,” and “un-American”...
Two Kinds of Wealth, Two Kinds of Debt
There are two kinds of wealth. There is the wealth that is earned when commodities, products, labor services or talents are brought into a competitive...
Real Lessons from the Age of Industrial Violence
Clockwise from top left: Child labor circa 1923; Alexander Berkman addressing the IWW in Union Square, April 1914; depiction of a confrontation during the...
Poverty is Over—If We Want it
Both corporate parties accept poverty as a fact of life. Here’s how we can prove them...
May Day Started Here
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United...
A War on Homelessness, or a War on the Homeless?
On March 2, Hank Rush, the CEO of Houston’s Star of Hope Mission—who makes a quarter-million dollar salary for his work with the poor—joined several...
Giving Occupy the Red Ink
What to do in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the protests that started far away – in the Middle East, Greece,...
Detroiters Rally for Justice: A Photo Essay
A coalition of Detroit’s civil rights, labor, clergy and community leaders staged a Justice and Peace Rally on March 26, which drew more than 1,000...
Occupying War: A Marine Vet Finds His Mission
There is the military kind of war and then there is the kind of war that happens in the streets. The first produces veterans. The...
Purchasing Prisoners, Creating Criminals & How Occupy Could be Next
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), owner of the largest private prison system in the United States, recently sent a letter to 48 states offering up...
Tracking Tear Gas
This was written by Allison Brown, Udi Pladott and Maia Ramnath for the OWS Global Justice Working Group. One of the biggest clues to understanding...