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Original Occupation: Native Blood & the Myth of Thanksgiving
The following originally appeared over at the Kasama Project, and was published prior to Thanksgiving of 2011, shortly after Occupy Wall Street was evicted from Zuccotti Park in Manhattan. The Puritan colonists of Massachusetts
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Community Voices: Mike Becker on the Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
On Sunday, November 4, Mike Becker of Allston joined for a day the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts coordinated by Occupy Wall Street activists. The words are his, with some edits for clarity by The
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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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PHOTOS: #S17, View from a Novice’s Phone
Since every other media outlet has professional reporters and photographers in Manhattan for #s17, we at the Boston Occupier decided to do something different and let a first-time OWS attendee handle photo-taking for the day’s
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Police Admit to Infiltrating Occupy Austin
This article originally appeared on the Raw Story, and was found through Occupy.com. When the local offshoot of Occupy Wall Street began a five-month encampment in Austin, Texas last fall, the Austin police assigned
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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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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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#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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Revolutionary Reform: An Interview With OWS Congressional Candidate George Martinez
George Martinez is a former district organizer, adjunct professor at Pace University and hip-hop artist who is running for U.S. Congress in the Democratic primary of New York’s 7th Congressional District, as a self-proclaimed
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NATO Dipsatches: The Other Side of Sunday
The following is a collection of dispatches from May 20, 2012, a major day of protests against the NATO Summit in Chicago. The vision of the protests presented here is solely the view of
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