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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cardboard Protesters, Real Message
If you were walking through Berlin’s Alexanderplatz at around 10am this Thursday, May 10, you may have seen a group of picketers holding signs, but standing eerily still, outside of Deutsche Bank. No, this
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The Dangers of Co-option
This article was originally published over at Occupy.com. Occupy Wall Street hoped for a national resurgence Tuesday with its May Day general strike. Equally important, however, to the movement’s future will be the result
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Going For it All: The Everything for Everyone Festival
As Bob Dylan said, “The times, they are a-changing” – a statement true now more than ever. Since last fall, the rise of the Occupy Movement in the United States has been creating new
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T Fare Hikes Spur New Occupation
On the afternoon of April 4, following a four-hour rally for public transportation, several members of Occupy MBTA unfurled a banner in front of the State House and announced a new occupation. The banner
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