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A Letter To The Occupy Together Movement
By Guest Contributor Harsha Walia I wish I could start with the ritualistic “I love you” for the Occupy Movement. To be honest, it has been a space of turmoil for me. But also one of virulent...
View Article#OccupySanDiego Finds Some Common Ground
By Arturo R. García As it entered its’ second week, the San Diego arm of the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken at least one crucial step: forging alliances. The group’s Oct. 15 rally and march to...
View ArticleCarefree White Girl x Creepy Pervs at #OccupyWallStreet
by Guest Contributor Collier Meyerson, originally published at Carefree White Girl From the creator: “We instantly went to Tumblr and made hotchicksofoccupywallstreet.tumblr.com. Our original ideas...
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Not an Ending, a Beginning: Notes on Occupy Wall Street
By Guest Contributor Manissa McCleave Maharawal, originally published at In Front and Center In the past few weeks friends and family from around the country have asked me, with a deep urgency in their...
View ArticleJay Smooth on #OccupyWallStreet and Outing the Ringers
Jay breaks down OWS, and its hidden benefit. According to Jay: It reveals to us all who the ringers are at Wall Street’s 3-Card Monte Table. [...] Every three card monte set up has a ringer. The...
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We Are The 99%: Chinese American Youth Edition
By Guest Contributor Jen Wang, cross-posted from Disgrasian The Chinese Progressive Association organizes low income and working class Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Some of their youth members...
View ArticleVideo: ‘There Is Diversity At Occupy Wall Street’
Last week, The Root featured this video by Obatala Mawusi focusing on some black participants at Occupy Wall Street. Shot in early October, Mawusi asked them what brought them to the burgeoning...
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A Day in the #OWS Movement: November 15th, 2011
by Guest Contributors Zoltán Glück and Manissa McCleave Maharawal Scene 1: Manissa The text came at 1:05am just as I was just getting out of the shower: OccupyNYC:URGENT:Hundreds of police mobilizing...
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Open Letter to Occupy San Diego
by Isang Bagsak, originally published at All People’s Revolutionary Front Dear Occupy San Diego, We, the All Peoples Revolutionary Front, have been intrigued by the developments of Occupy Wall Street...
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Racial Fractures and the Occupy Movement
by Guest Contributor Bridget Todd People often tell me that I don’t look like your average Occupy protestor. I was initially drawn to the Occupy movement for several reasons. As an educator, anything...
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Jean Quan and the Death of Asian America
Illustration by Gary Bedard By Guest Contributor Chris Fan, cross-posted from Hyphen Magazine Last Monday, Oakland’s mayor Jean Quan ordered the forcible eviction of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s...
View ArticleFriday Links Roundup, 12-2-11
New Book Says Tyler Perry’s Success Tied To “Secret Backroom Deals, Illicit Cash, Backstabbing” (Shadow And Act) Melvin Childs is a former radio executive (now promoter/producer) with several claims...
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Private Danny Chen, and why I will never again reach out to OWS about...
By Guest Contributor Esther Choi, cross-posted from Some Thoughts … I can’t stress enough that the following article only represents my opinions as an individual, and are not to be affiliated with any...
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Occupy, Resist, and Grow
By Guest Contributor Yvonne Yen Liu, cross-posted from Mobilizing Ideas Marshall Ganz calls Occupy a moment, but we have a history and a future. My generation, in North America, was birthed over 12...
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Why Occupy Wall Street Matters to Me and How It Can Continue to Matter
By Guest Contributor Manissa McCleave Maharawal, cross-posted from in front and center (In some ways this is a response to Esther Choi’s piece, and in some ways it isn’t…) I spent yesterday evening as...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Jan. 24 State Of The Union Address
By Arturo R. García From telling Congress, “I intend to fight obstruction with action” to calling for a more “common sense” approach to handling the country’s growing income gap, last night’s State of...
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IMAGES: The Million Hoodie March
Compiled by Arturo R. García Mother Jones’ assertion that Wednesday’s Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin and the Occupy Wall Street movement are “linked” will need to be reassessed in the days...
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Excerpt: Politics365 On The Rise Of The ‘Mexican Spring’
Courtesy: Los Angeles Times Less than ten years after losing control of the executive branch, and by extension, the country, the PRI won effective control of the lower house of the legislature, a...
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Ashok and Amrit Go to the Movies
By Guest Contributor Ashok Kondabolu, cross-posted from Asian-American Writers’ Workshop Stereogum executive editor Amrit Singh. Dosa Hunt premiere photos by Laura June Kirsch. Amrit Singh is the...
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Idle No More 101
By Guest Contributor Gyasi Ross Illustration by Steven Paul Judd. Lately, Native people have taken to the streets malls in demonstrations of Public Indian-ness (“PI”) that surpasses the sheer volume of...
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