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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Opinion: Workers Are The 99%, Plain and Simple
We now have the battle lines clearly drawn: those who want a new society, and those who want to keep it the way it is. But our current, amorphous definition of the 99% will not provide us with an adequate paradigm to move forward.
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Occupy Gets Its Anthem
Song premiere: "We Are the 99 Percent" by Tom Morello, Tim McIlrath, Serj Tankian and Occupy Wall Street
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Letter to Libertarians: The People Are The Government
The Tea Party, as well as the Republicans and Democrats, embody corporate values and anti-democratic tendencies that threaten our country’s tradition of popular sovereignty.
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How the Media is (Still) Failing Occupy
The post-camp Occupy Movement is proving a bit too cerebral for a media machine that prefers shiny objects and flashing lights to substance.
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How Occupy Birthed a Rhizome
Anniversaries, like Monday’s one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, bring about pangs of nostalgia as we remember what was and what we could have been.
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Putting Sorkin’s Occupy Wall Street Critique in a Larger Historical Context
In “Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled,” Andrew Ross Sorkin leaped into the ongoing frenzy, which has hopefully fizzled, of proclaiming the death of Occupy as thousands of people are taking to the streets.
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Forging a People's Wall
If the police are adapting their arrest tactics, we should adapt our own tactics to protect innocent people from unlawful arrest, imprisonment, and costly court dates and attorney fees.
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Occupy Your Victories
Occupy's accomplished a great deal in a year.
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From NY to SF, Thousands March to Celebrate Year-Old Movement
"Occupy" might not be the right name for the movement anymore, as Monday's actions were less about holding space than breaching it.
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Banking on a Post-Wall Street Era
On this, the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s important to understand the financial system that drives economic injustice – the reason why the scales always seem to be tilted towards the 1%.
