A decade ago Occupy reframed US political debate, trained a generation of activists, and served as a dress rehearsal for movements that followed It has been 10 years since Occupy Wall Street sh...
Some say it inspired BLM and the growth of the US left. Others see it as an abject failure. A decade after the occupation of New York’s Zuccotti Park, the people who were there look back “W...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/12/occupy-wall-street-10-years-on
Peter Turchin, an entomologist-turned-historian, offers insight into the battle between elites Peter Turchin is not the first entomologist to cross over to human behaviour: during a lecture in ...
The anthropologist, who died last week, had cheerful, insurrectionary verve as a scholar and direct-action activist This week has mingled, for me, the sadness of losing David Graeber the perso...
From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to school climate strikes, the power of popular movements can no longer be ignored As I write, immense protests are taking place in India against the new anti...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/decade-disillusionment-global-protests
From Occupy Wall Street to Extinction Rebellion, this has been a combustible 10 years In March 2011, I asked a class at an unemployed training centre in Madrid who would be prepared to emigrate...
The writer and film-maker explores the meaning of democracy in a new documentary and book, and discusses the current state of politics, from Donald Trump to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Astra Taylo...
We are witnessing the advent of social movement warfare: the deployment of social protest as an effective alternative to conventional military conflict writes MICAH WHITE, one of the co-creators ...
How a high-flying diplomat and Middle East adviser lost his faith in western democracy – but put his trust in people power If you were to play a game of word association with the term “anarc...
YOUNG VIC, LONDON The audience play their part in the Arab Spring and debate whether Occupy curbed capitalist power as the journalist interrogates a decade of revolt This live incarnation of G...
Traumatized by Occupy’s dissipation, the founder of the movement realized that street protests have become outdated. Now he’s focusing on hyper-local activism It took a few years before Mic...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/06/activism-rural-america-occupy-movement
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Activists of the movement, splintered and diminished since it prompted worldwide protests against inequality, reunited and reflected on Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders and the legacy of Occupy...
Come November, Clinton will have won her great victory – not as a champion of working people’s concerns, but as the greatest moderate of them all And so ends the great populist uprising of ...
Some of the country’s biggest financial institutions would still need public bailouts if they failed. But it’s not their size that’s the problem, it’s how they’re run Throughout the 20...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/14/breaking-up-banks-public-bailouts-ownership
The Argentinian capital’s many cooperatives showed that Occupy movements were not simply a response to economic crisis – they could be sustainable business models, too. So why are they now un...
For me, a hot stock tip is boiling veggies in your ramen broth before adding noodles. I still bet I’d do a better job on Wall Street than today’s clowns I was once sitting in a coffee shop ...
It’s tough at the top. As one psychological counsellor to the 1% says: ‘I am not necessarily comparing it to what people of color have to go through, but …’ It’s a rainy Wednesday morn...
Protesters say movement’s unorthodox style has laid groundwork for Sanders’ success, while its network of activists are proving a major boon to campaign On 17 September 2011 a group of prot...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/17/occupy-wall-street-protesters-bernie-sanders
This week it will be four year since Occupy Wall Street erupted in New York City and took over Zuccotti Park. At 5pm on Thursday, Occupy will mark its anniversary with an assembly to ‘vision po...