The 99% Two Years After Occupy Wall Street

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Not Guilty By Virtue of Videotape, Which, Unlike the Police, Doesn't Lie | Common Dreams

Not Guilty By Virtue of Videotape, Which, Unlike the Police, Doesn't Lie | Common Dreams
"In the first jury trial stemming from Occupy Wall Street protests, activist and community organizer Michael Premo was found innocent of all charges after his lawyers presented video evidence that directly contradicted the story told by police and prosecutors."

Occupy Group Sues Government To Speed Up Rule Reining In Wall Street

Occupy Group Sues Government To Speed Up Rule Reining In Wall Street: The Volcker Rule — a part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that is meant to rein in risky bank trading — is on the verge of being delayed, again, as regulators squabble over its exact parameters. Wall Street banks and congressional Republicans, after successfully watering down the Volcker Rule when Dodd-Frank was being debated, [...]/p

Students Occupy University President’s Office To Protest Naming Stadium After Private Prison Company

Students Occupy University President’s Office To Protest Naming Stadium After Private Prison Company: Last week, the administration of Florida Atlantic University raised eyebrows when officials announced that they had sold the naming rights to the school’s new football stadium to the GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison company. And students aren’t taking the deal lying down. On Monday afternoon, dozens of activists staged a sit-in inside university [...]/p

Movements Making Noise | Common Dreams

Movements Making Noise | Common Dreams
"When historians look back at the decades of the transition to the twenty-first century, I think they will see a distinctive era of tumult and protest, in the United States and across the globe. The perspective gained by the passage of time will show the broad similarities of these protests—both in their scale and in the societal upheavals they reflect and foretell—to the popular insurgencies of the nineteenth century that accompanied the spread of capitalist industrialization. In both periods, dramatic changes in the economy meant new hardships, broken compacts, and the uprooting of peoples from familiar places and accustomed ways of life. In the nineteenth century, some named the new system driving these developments “capitalism” or “industrialism.” Now we name the monster machine propelling diverse local disasters “neoliberal globalization"."

Criminalizing Dissent and Punishing Occupy Protesters: Introduction to Henry Giroux’s "Youth in Revolt"

Criminalizing Dissent and Punishing Occupy Protesters: Introduction to Henry Giroux’s "Youth in Revolt"
"In the United States, the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s and in the process has been di­rected disproportionately against young people, poor minorities, immigrants, women, and the elderly. Guided by the notion that unregulated, market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, a business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility and conscience, thereby furthering the dismissal of social problems and expanding cutbacks in basic social services."

FBI Docs Redact Threats to Assassinate OWS Leaders

FBI Docs Redact Threats to Assassinate OWS Leaders
"Naomi Wolf gives an excellent in-depth analysis of those newly released documents that reveal the FBI's counterterrorism monitoring of Occupy Wall Street, and points out the assassination by sniper fire threats against OWS leaders that the FBI never bothered to inform anyone in the movement about."

FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
"New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011."

Join the Rolling Jubilee: “You Are Not a Loan”

Join the Rolling Jubilee: “You Are Not a Loan”
"This is the idea behind the "Rolling Jubilee" being organized by "Strike Debt", an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Since November 15, 2012, they have raised over $350,000, enough to abolish over $7 million in debt."

Occupy's Rolling Jubilee Has Raised Enough to Forgive Almost $7 Million of Debt | Alternet

Occupy's Rolling Jubilee Has Raised Enough to Forgive Almost $7 Million of Debt | Alternet
"After a long, rollicking and vintage Occupy-style concert and telethon Thursday night called the People's Bailout, which included music, talks about debt, and performances  the Rolling Jubilee has raised enough money to forgive almost 7 million dollars of debt."

Keep an Eye on Some of the Best Organizing Going On in America: 6 Activist Projects to Watch | Alternet

Keep an Eye on Some of the Best Organizing Going On in America: 6 Activist Projects to Watch | Alternet
"As the date to go to the polls comes near, many seasonal activists will lace up their sneakers and do the work of knocking on doors to lend an aid to high-profile and local campaigns alike."

Arun Gupta and Marina Sitrin on Occupy’s Anniversary And how the Media of the %1 misrepresent Occupy

Highlights from Occupy Wall Street's 1st Anniversary

Highlights from Occupy Wall Street's 1st Anniversary
"Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park on 1st anniversary. I don't have confirmation on the numbers in attendance today, but they've been estimated at between 35,000 to 50,000 occupiers."

Shocking Videos of Police Brutality at Yesterday's OWS Demonstrations | Alternet

Shocking Videos of Police Brutality at Yesterday's OWS Demonstrations | Alternet
"Friend of AlterNet Michael Gould Wartofsky was in the streets of New York City yesterday filming footage of protests, which inevitably turned into footage of what certainly appears to be police brutality, overzealous arrest, aggression and misconduct."

Screwed - Citizens United

David Cobb, Move To Amend / Lawyer / Democracy Unlimited joins Thom Hartmann. One of the most contentious Senate races this year is in Massachusetts - between Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Scott Brown. How has Warren become the Occupy movement's biggest champion - and isn't her anti corporate personhood message at the center of Occupy's cause?

Happy Birthday OWS...The Game is Rigged - Keep it Up!

Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street. One year ago today...Americans started occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan - and over the next several weeks - hundreds of similar occupations popped up all around the nation. The movement went mainstream - and average middle class Americans were drawn to it because it targeted the two fundamental crises facing not just working people in America - but working people around the world. The first being the corporate coup de tat of our democracy. And the second being the subsequent corporate takeover of the economy - and the emergence of a globalized corporate financial economy that is today collapsing under its own weight. And since one year later - these two crises are still threatening us all - the Occupy Movement is just as important than ever. On the first front - there's a new report, written by an international commission chaired by Kofi Annan, which sends a warning to the world's democracies, specifically the United States, about the corrupting influence of corporations and money in the democratic process. As the report - titled "Deepening Democracy: a Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide" - states, quote: "Across the world, uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy and rob it of its unique strengths."

PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street’s One-Year Anniversary

PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street’s One-Year Anniversary: Today, protesters took to the streets of New York City to mark the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Already, more than 100 activists have been arrested. Here are some photos from the demonstrations today and over the weekend:/p

I Will Occupy

I Will Occupy
"That history will remember Occupy, and a year when a chance was held forth to seize on the idea that this looming collective calamity can be sidestepped. History will remember Occupy as having offered one last, best chance to be more than we are, to see the beast for what it is, and to slay it once and for all."

Occupy and the Reasons for Our Discontent | Common Dreams

Occupy and the Reasons for Our Discontent | Common Dreams
"A year ago today, a few hundred people went to Wall Street, gathering in the financial district in Lower Manhattan with the intention of staying there until the US noticed. I was lucky to be in Zuccotti Park that first day, with the much more courageous and steadfast Occupiers, who slept out, and planned often truly profound visions for social change."

#S17 Commemorates First Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Movement | Common Dreams

#S17 Commemorates First Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Movement | Common Dreams
"Taking advantage of the one year anniversary of the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan, economic justice advocates take to the streets today under the banner of #S17."