The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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"Complete Victory": U.S. District Judge Blocks NDAA
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.
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The Help vs. The Wherewithal
The dream of living as the rich live can blind the dreamer to economic realities.
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Overthrowing the Corporate Elites
In order to dismantle the corporate entities that have colonized the nation, we must first recognize ourselves as colonial subjects, accept the hollowness of electoral politics and destroy the corporate structure itself.
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Keeping People in Their Homes, One Action at a Time
Many organizations have popped up with the goal of keeping people in their homes when the sheriff comes knocking.
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Eight Months On, Still Fighting Foreclosures
One of Occupy Wall Street’s enduring legacies is the Occupy Our Homes movement, which successfully managed to protect families from evictions when the government didn't seem overly concerned by an epidemic of foreclosures.
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How the 1% Hijacked Our Courts
Those at the top of the economic pinnacle have taken an ever-growing share of the nation's income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewrite the rules of the market in their favor.
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Flood Morgan Stanley Annual Shareholder Meeting
Occupy Wall Street held a day of action Tuesday, part of a larger weeklong schedule of protests that coincidentally aligns with Internet Week in New York. First up on Occupy’s agenda yesterday morning: a protest at Morgan Stanley’s annual shareholder’s meeting.
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Carrying Student Loans? Prepare to Pay With Your Social Security
Thanks to Congress, your student loan debt can be extracted from your Social Security checks. Lawmakers are scrambling to find the money to prevent an impending interest rate hike. Will the student loan bubble pop like the housing and financial bubbles did?
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Moving Beyond Wall Street-Centric Economics
The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that has prevailed for the last three decades. Europeans are rejecting austerity. Latin Americans are nationalizing enterprises. Maybe that long-heralded “end of the Washington consensus” is finally upon us.
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This Spring, We Throw Off Our Chains
We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world´s population , where we are told there is no alternative to the loss of our rights. But we want a world ruled by the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity – the old dream of our ancestors when they rose against oppression.
