Ten years later, the Democratic Party ignores Occupy Wall Street’s warnings at its own peril. Jonathan Smucker September 17 2021, 4:00 a.m. (theintercept.com) Protesters with Occupy Wall Street chant before walking up Fifth Avenue to demonstrate in front of the residence of NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch on Oct. 11, 2011, in… Continue reading
Climate activists with Extinction Rebellion demonstrated outside Wells Fargo headquarters in downtown San Francisco on Sept. 17. (Kevin N. Hume/The Examiner) Sep. 17, 2021 4:30 p.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWS NEWSLETTER THE CITY By Jessica Wolfrom Examiner staff writer A coalition of climate activists huddled outside the Wells Fargo Museum in the… Continue reading
A sign with the CVS Health Corp. logo is seen within a CVS pharmacy store in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2017. Photo: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images The pharmacy and health insurance giant gave $5 million to Partnership for America’s Health Care Future. Lee FangApril 21 2021, 9:49 a.m. (theintercept.com) IN… Continue reading
In an interview, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin discusses fatherhood, who deserves to be punished, his relationship with the police, and more. By Emma Green SEPTEMBER 14, 2021 (theatlantic.com) Late one recent afternoon, Chesa Boudin logged on to Zoom to have a conversation with me while his wife was in… Continue reading
Jacobin Jacobin’s Meagan Day and Seth Ackerman discuss the legacy of Occupy Wall Street on the tenth anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park. Subscribe to the channel and hit the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod… Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Full livestream (members): https://youtu.be/oBOPiwJOnqI
FRI, 9/10/2021 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) Even though I was just a 14-year-old kid in my freshman social studies class, I knew America would never be the same as I watched, with my equally horrified classmates, while the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11. The trauma from that day remains real, and… Continue reading
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the… Continue reading
Talking with the veteran organizer and Bernie Sanders campaign staffer about the quiet revolution that started a decade ago in Zuccotti Park BY DAVID DAYEN SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 (prospect.org) JASON DECROW/AP PHOTO Occupy Wall Street protesters join a labor union rally in Foley Square before marching on Zuccotti Park in New… Continue reading
Democracy Now! On the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we examine the legacy of the historic protests with three veterans of the movement: Nelini Stamp, now the director of strategy and partnerships at the Working Families Party; Jillian Johnson, a key organizer in Occupy Durham who now serves on… Continue reading
