Enacting the Impossible
On August 2, at the very first meeting of what was to become Occupy Wall Street, about a dozen people sat in a circle in...
So Real it Hurts: Building a New Republic
On a Thursday night when I showed up at Occupy Wall Street from a community meeting with some South Asian friends, we were handed a...
Occupation is Participation
Among the remarkable developments at Liberty Square have been the Working Groups, created by occupiers to forward the movement’s goals. In these groups ideas are...
Rule of Law vs. The Forces of Order
Occupy Wall Street, with its defiant style of non-violent protest, has consistently clashed with the NYPD’s obsession with order maintenance, resulting in hundreds of mostly...
The People’s Library
LIBERTY SQUARE — Howard Zinn is here. Dominick Dunne and Tom Wolfe, too. Ernest Hemingway and Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Who and Beowulf: All here,...
Love Letter to Liberty Square
5:00 AM Friday — In the daybreaking hours of a long night spent scrubbing and brushing and gardening and packing, a stalwart girl named Julia meticulously swept...