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A Eulogy for #Occupy

A table at Zuccotti Park where free cigarettes were given out, taken three days before the OWS eviction. The inscription reads “Falling is still flying Have Hope Mon Ami.” Photo: Quinn…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7369 words)

Participatory Democracy

This is the fiftieth anniversary year of the Port Huron Statement, the founding declaration of Students for a Democratic Society, issued as a “living document” in 1962. The SDS call for a…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7692 words)

Paint the Other Cheek

At a semi-secret meeting in the basement of a Greenwich Village church one Saturday night in February, a couple-dozen of the busiest Occupy Wall Street organizers sat in a circle of folding chairs.…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2890 words)

Revolution on the Radio

Nearly two months after Occupy Wall Street set up camp in lower Manhattan, the Times’ public editor wrote about the challenge presented by the movement’s “difficult, sprawling…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1778 words)

TomDispatch.com

The other day in my Manhattan neighborhood, a woman passed me in the street. She was obviously headed for a demonstration somewhere in the big city, with a sign tucked sideways under her arm. I…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4461 words)
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