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Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed
This article originally appeared on Nation of Change. Yes, you’ve caused people to suffer. You’ve taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years, from Reagan to Obama, using a variety of strategies
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On Occupy: Aimless Nostalgia and the Need for a Damn Plan
“Whose training?” the young organizer shouted. The response came as a groan rather than a roar, a few tired voices out of the hundred or so gathered, repeating the fill-in-the-blank response mechanically: “Our training.”
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What the Occupy Movement Demands of Each of Us
That we work to defeat and to overthrow the rule of the 1% (and the 0.1%) over our lives, our society, and our world; That we devote our lives to ending the oppression, domination,
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Joseph E. Stiglitz: Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
This article originally appeared in Vanity Fair, and was republished on Occupy.com. It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now
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AFL-CIO Somehow Declares Victory in Wisconsin
In the wake of the Wisconsin elections and the failure to unseat Governor Walker, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has issued a victory statement of sorts, resorting to the most tortured and convoluted logic. For
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We Could Own the Banks
This article is a part of our ‘Debate:’ series, a pair of op-eds published monthly in the Boston Occupier. This month’s topic was ‘Debt Reform or Revolution?’. The average US household debt burden has
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The Great Inequality, Part 1
This essay is based upon the “Review of the Month” from Monthly Review, March 2012, as is published here as a part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. The Occupy Wall Street uprising
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BSBS: Boycott Super-PAC Business Supporters
The Occupy movement, now seven months old, is reportedly without tangible direction. “We, the 99%” says a lot, yet arguably says too much. The movement’s focus is as diverse as its representative viewpoints. We
Read More »Occupy Boston Calls For A National Day of Action for Public Transportation
On March 3rd, 2012, the General Assembly of Occupy Boston passed a resolution which calls on Occupy groups in the United States to stage protests in support of public transportation services. The national day
Read More »OPINION: Why Ending the Fed is Wrong
Anyone who walked through the former Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square was confronted with the sight of tents, colorful signs, deep political discussions and the long, ominous shadow of the Federal Reserve Bank
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