There are many important things from now till Wed. Hoping to send out some events for the weekend later on this week NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!! *** ASL interpretation –… Continue reading
How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course. ARUN GUPTA SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 (inthesetimes.com) When Occupy Wall Street was evicted from its home base in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, by the NYPD in a paramilitary-style operation under cover of the night with a press blackout, the obituaries… Continue reading
In 2011, Occupy organizers spoke with In These Times about challenges and opportunities. Ten years later, we look back on the decentralized, grassroots uprising. IN THESE TIMES EDITORS SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 (inthesetimes.com) PUBLISHED INOCTOBER 2021 Adecade has passed since activists first camped in New York’s Zuccotti Park as part of Occupy Wall… Continue reading
Americans love the idea of increasing Social Security benefits. Now is the time to educate ourselves about how that could happen. Jon Schwarz February 19 2022 (TheIntercept.com) House Ways and Means Social Security subcommittee members look on as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks about legislation that would strengthen Social Security… Continue reading
Books on OWS for activists, researchers etc. (Goodreads.com) 1 Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypseby Nathan Schneider (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 52 ratingsscore: 294, and 3 people voted Want to ReadRate this book1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 2 Strike Art:… Continue reading
Joe Garofoli Feb. 20, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) When either David Campos or Matt Haney arrives in Sacramento as the next 17th Assembly District member representing San Francisco later this spring, many of their colleagues will look at them for what they are: another left-leaning legislator from San Francisco. But until the… Continue reading
Demonstrators march down Hope Street in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 3, 2021 for a march against greenwashing organized by Extinction Rebellion during COP26. (Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images “This empirical work by independent scholars,” said one environmental scholar, proves what climate activists have argued all along. JESSICA CORBETT… Continue reading
Countdown Summit October 2021|Ted.com James K. Thornton Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country’s growing effort to use the power of the courts to… Continue reading
Rebecca Stevens A. Jan 23, 2022 (Medium.com) It’s not that complicated Black people can detect racists from a mile off. It’s the way they look at us — it’s often a look of disgust, deep hatred, or fear, and it shows. The minute we approach you, we can feel it… Continue reading
