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Letter From the Editors: One Year and Eleven Issues Later…
Dear Readers, A little over a year ago, on a crisp October day at Dewey Square in downtown Boston, the Boston Occupier was formed as an answer to inaccurate media coverage of the Occupy
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Occupy: Reform or Revolution?
We asked a few people from Occupy Boston what they thought about a longstanding debate within the Occupy movement: Should Occupy be a reform movement, attempting to change the system by working within it,
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350.org Launches Massachusetts Network
Cambridge, MA –– Although 350.org has become a global leader in the fight against climate change, its beginnings are modest. “350 started like this, in a circle, in Vermont, in 2006,” said Phil Aroneonu,
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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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Occupy Homes Comes to Massachusetts
Michael Premo, an enthusiastic organizer for a new initiative called “Occupy Homes”, doesn’t see anything new in what he or other groups are doing to stop foreclosures and evictions. “It started with the Communist
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Police Raid Home of Occupy Seattle and E4E Organizers
Early morning, July 10, SWAT police forced their way into the Seattle apartment of organizers from the Occupy movement. The sleeping residents scrambled to put on clothes as they were confronted with automatic weapons.
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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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#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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Campaign finance conference takes “cross-partisan” approach
This article was originally published in the DC Mic Check. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling on Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission, legislatures across the country have been passing
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Message to the Movement
The following is an excerpt from a letter written by Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American convict currently serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of a Philidelphia police officer. For decades, Mumia’s case has
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