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Participatory democracy in the Age of Information has turned out to be no more participatory than it ever was in states undergoing the transition from dictatorship and repression.
It is fitting that we celebrate Dr. King's birthday the week before the first Southern primary. Republicans still tout Reagan's vision, but it was King, not Reagan or Thurmond who forged the New South.
Occupation is a tactic of the 99% movement. The end of the physical Occupation at City Hall in Los Angeles was the beginning of the next phase of the ...
Has the mayor decided to look more favorably on OWS now that it has been market-tested as good for New York City?
Bain Capital made Mitt Romney a much wealthier man than he already was as the heir to Daddy's fortune. But was it good for America? Hardly. Is this the American Dream? Perhaps only for the already wealthy Romney.
When Injustice Becomes Law, resistance Becomes Duty. -- Thomas Jefferson. #Whilewewatch is not a film you walk out of saying you "like" or "dislike."...
Every social movement I have been involved with, or covering, develops/invents its own language of liberation, its own alphabet, and its own buzzword...
Just as Sonoma County is a leader in wine production throughout the nation, this semi-rural California region is proactive with regards to questions being asked by Occupy organizers around and beyond the United States.
The reason why the message of the Occupy movement has struck a chord with so many people is that it touches on an issue that goes beyond the standing of America's "top 1%." People are not merely resentful of inequality. They're scared due to insecurity.
Many Americans awoke to the reality of a country different to the one they thought they knew, one where their government was capable of manipulating the truth, where some in power were corrupted and bluntly corruptible.
Last spring, after 14 years as a labor activist, I walked away. After devoting my adult life to building worker power, I hung it up for comedy. I told...
Are you with the 99% or with the 1%? Leave it to the very smart Newt Gingrich to find the hole in the Mitt Romney facade and drive a truck through it.
If the Occupy movement is a fight for economic equality, it should be fighting for women to earn equal pay for equal work. Occupy says our biggest problem is the growing disparity in wealth. I say women have always faced this disparity.
If you missed seeing the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, there's another chance for you to experience the occupation at the original site.
Morality has been a part of contract law for ages in the history of western civilization. At one time it was believed that contracts were made in the ...
We have a message for Wall Street. It's time to pay back for the damage you have wrought. A meaningful tax on financial instruments could harvest up to $350 billion every year to help reframe the economy and heal America.
