On October 25, in Oakland, in a pre-dawn raid, hundreds of police officers from 18 different police departments descended upon 200 protesters camped out at Oakland City Hall. Protesters were awakened by police in riot gear determined to wreck the place. Police fired...
Last week Obama announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year. He said this completed his campaign promise to withdraw from Iraq. Some people might breathe a sigh of relief, believing that the war is over. The Iraqi people are not...
It has been one month since protesters took to the streets of New York and set up a protest camp near Wall Street. This symbolic act has sparked a movement of protest against banks, corporations and the super-rich that has engaged people in cities all over the United...
With the demonstrations and occupations that started in New York, people are realizing their potential to fight back. On Wall Street and across the world, people are mobilizing. This isn’t the first time that people have organized against an economic crisis. During...
In the last few weeks we have seen a wave of popular demonstrations around the country. The biggest were in New York City, aimed at the financial giants of Wall Street, and in Washington D.C. aimed at the US government’s war machine. But there have been hundreds of...
