Winter has seen Occupy Wall Street shift gears. Meetings have moved indoors, and the movement is now more a networkMore…
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Amorous Analogies: How #OWS Connects the Dots
In a social theory graduate seminar about a year ago, Peter Marcuse, a radical lawyer and urban planning prof, cameMore…
What Makes Us Strong
On Thanksgiving, the police entered the encampment at Occupy LA and began hanging signs designating the park hours. The firstMore…
Built for Battle
I went to be a witness to whatever was about to transpire. Many people like me were committed to not engaging the police at all. … We only desired to be there, to protect others with our presence and to carefully record as incidents unfolded.
Rethinking Community and Homelessness in the Wake of Occupy Philly
Paul Klemmer writes that Philadelphia’s homeless face two closely-related crises in the wake of their eviction from “Camp Liberty,” the small camp underMore…
You Can’t Evict An Idea
Early this morning, Saturday, December 10, Occupy Boston was evicted from Dewey Square. But, as thousands gathered in the squareMore…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
When I arrived at Zuccotti Park on the night of Tuesday, November 15th, I was struck by the way in which the mass of people was arranged and how the NYPD had turned the surrounding blocks into a paramilitary zone. I’d seen large numbers of people in Zuccotti Park before … This was a very different scene.
