Last November 15th our peaceful occupation exposing Wall Street greed was violently evicted from Zuccotti Park. One year later, we are launching the Rolling Jubilee – the next step in our movement to shine a light on the system that allows Wall Street to exploit the 99%. Read more…
FOCUS: Media Blackout on Mayor Bloomberg’s Raid on Zuccotti Park
Reader Supported News | 15 November 11 It’s Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FOCUS: Media Blackout on Mayor Bloomberg’s Raid on Zuccotti Park Mayor Michael Bloomberg suspends the First Amendment. (photo: Andrew Burton/Reuters) Barbara Morrill, Daily Kos Intro: “When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to …
Economics of the Walk Out
Harvard Students Walk Out on Econ10 Class It is amazing that we continue to teach the same outmoded theories of economics in our most esteemed institutions of higher learning when it is almost universally acknowledged that the economic system spawned by those economic theories is broken. Last week a group …
Chris Hedges on the significance of #OccupyWallStreet: tinkering with the corporate state is no longer sufficient
What took place early Friday morning in Zuccotti Park was the first salvo in a long struggle for justice. It signaled a step backward by the corporate state in the face of popular pressure. And it was carried out by ordinary men and women who sleep at night on concrete, …