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Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street: Day 14, September 30, 2011. (Photo: ©wendyannibell photos) The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the …
Why Occupy Wall Street Is the Next Republican Boogeyman
Occupy Wall Street: Day 1, September 17, 2011. (Photo: luddista) The Boogeyman is dead, and Santa is dying. The Republicans have been, since the 1930s, …
News Corp. Will Save Our Schools, and Other Scarily Seductive Reforms
Banish the image of a classic American classroom from your mind—chalkboard, desks and all. The future of education has arrived, and next-era classrooms look like, well, call centers: students …
Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice?
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Parent trigger laws, according to their proponents, give parents power. Gregory McGinity, managing director of policy for the Broad Education Foundation, calls …
Falling for New Neocon Propaganda
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times) …
Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it …
“The Savage City” Revisits Notorious Crimes to Reveal Biased Policing
(Photo: Tim Musson / Flickr) Probably few of the Americans who heard Martin Luther King preach his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the …
Occupy the Mortgage Lenders
Washington, DC – Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and …
Secure Communities Silences Domestic Violence Victims
For years, Yan endured brutal beatings and repeated rapes at the hands of her husband. An undocumented immigrant from Asia, she never called the police out of fear that …
“It Should Be Like This Everywhere”: The Free Economy of Liberty Plaza Park
Demonstrators are served lunch at the makeshift food center at the Occupy Wall Street protest. (Photo: Robert Caplin / The New York Times) "The process is the …