Monthly Archives: June 2012 »
Michael Yates: The Great Inequality, Part 2
This is the second in a two-part series by economist and Monthly Review associate editor Michael Yates about economic inequality in the United States. In case you missed it, read part one here. What has
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Assembling an Assembly: What Occupy Can Learn from Medieval Iceland’s Althing
This article originally appeared in the Occupied Times of London. It is not obvious that one needs a sovereign for a society to organise itself or to address its concerns. The Occupation movement has
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Dispatch: Poles Within The Coalition of Greece’s Radical Left
The following is a dispatch from Eric Ribellarsi of the Kasama Project, who is currently traveling in Greece. He has documented them on his blog, Winter Has Its End. ATHENS, GREECE - I emerge from
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CARTOON: Recycled
Image and text by Kip Lyall. To see more of Kip’s work, visit his website
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Occupy Student Debt Campaign Hosts NYC Debtor’s Assembly
At the first Debtors Assembly in New York City on June 3rd, more than 50 occupiers, educators, students, and workers came together for what organizers called a “passionate discussion of how the notion of
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Why Not to Trust Monsanto
The Monsanto Corporation is among the largest pesticide and biotechnical corporations in the world today. Their products are used in most sectors of agriculture, public land upkeep, landscaping/gardening and can be found in most
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This article originally appeared over at the Occupied Wall Street Journal. This week in Occupy, the Cruz family was rebuffed by PNC Bank, Rio + 20 was mic-checked and #occupied, Egyptians took to the
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Richard Wolff on Leaving Our Unstable System
For 50 years, it has been impossible in the United States to seriously debate or criticize our economic system. The different points of view represent different ways of cheerleading for it. So in a
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