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Four Simple Steps for Taking Your Money Out of the Vampire Banks
Can't pitch a tent at Zuccotti Park? Not to worry. There's something meaningful you can do to stand up to vampire banks that bleed the economy — and your …
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Unequal Justice: Banker Arrests, Zero; Protester Arrests, 2,511
Since the start of the financial crisis, Americans have wondered why, if laws were broken, none of the occupants of Wall Street or other financial centers have been arrested. …
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A 51st State for Armed Robotic Drones
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon's plan is to give …
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Gandhi Meets Monty Python at Occupy Wall Street: The Comedic Turn in Nonviolent Tactics
Liberty Square, New York, October 3, 2011. (Photo: WarmSleepy) On October 3rd, protesters at Occupy Wall Street failed to march. Instead they clumsily lurched. With white painted …
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Plutocratic Government Tries to Beat Down #Occupy
In Oakland peaceful #Occupy demonstrators were camping out in front of city hall. The city launched a police raid to clear out the camp, using tear gas, flash-bank grenades, …
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How the 99 Percent Really Lost Out – in Far Greater Ways Than the Occupy Protesters Imagine
Joanne Kathleen Farrell, a protester from Occupy Albany, waved an American flag on Washington Avenue, which borders Academy Park near the state Capitol, in Albany, New York, October 26, …
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Elders a (Labor) Force for Social Change
We’re a nation that will soon have more older people than young ones, and much of the popular media portrays this as a disaster story that goes something like …
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Then They Fight You
Occupy Oakland protesters after their camp was destroyed by Oakland police along with ten neighboring police departments. Several hundred protesters regrouped at the intersection of 14th and Broadway …
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Gandhi’s Wings: Occupy Wall Street and the Redistribution of Anxiety
It's my home — last night I dreamt that I grew wings I found a place where they could hear me when I sing —"Wings" by …
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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed
It is class warfare. It was not begun, however, by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly. Rather, this war was sparked …