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VIDEO: Chris Hedges on why Occupy Harvard matters: “Harvard exists to feed the plutocracy”
Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia has been in Boston since Saturday. She listened to journalist Chris Hedges address Occupy Harvard… More »
Occupy the Highway: why mobile protest may be the future of Occupy Wall Street
Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia has been with the Washington, D.C. encampment since Monday. Here, she chronicles… More »
Occupy Wall Street’s day of action in New York: how it went down
Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia spent November 17 in New York. This is what she saw. November 17… More »
“Obedience is the problem”: Don’t let legal wrangling distract from Occupy’s message
One consequence of efforts to evict Occupy encampments in countless cities across the continent has been the dilution of much of the mainstream debate around the movement to a focus on the extent to which it complies with the law. Organizations like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association have put forth compelling arguments that “Freedom of… More »
“The process is the message”: why the Occupy movement keeps stumping the pundit class
Early in the occupation of Wall Street, David Graeber characterized it as a re-awakening of the radical imagination. One way to conceptualize the imaginative dimension of the Occupy Together movement is to think of it as analogous to an art project undertaken in Dionne Brand’s 2005 novel, What We All Long For. Tuyen, one of… More »
147 corporations control 40 percent of the global economy, say scientists
Next time someone asks you what the Occupy protesters are demonstrating against, here’s a handy visual: the diagram above illustrates the ownership links between 1,318 global corporations. Between them, they control a majority of the world economy. And a minority of this minority, just 147 companies, control 40 percent of all the wealth in the… More »
