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Three Years Later: Occupy Activists Are Now Suing Each Other Over Twitter...

On the third anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a group of protesters is suing one of their fellows, who they claim took unilateral control of a Twitter account.

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Williams and Rodriguez Join Climate Protestors Flooding Wall Street

Jumaane Williams and Ydanis Rodriguez joined the "Flood Wall Street" protest a day after the People's Climate March.

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Climate March Spin-Off ‘Flood Wall Street’ Clashes With Cops

Flood Wall Street, an Occupy-esque spin-off of the People's Climate March, attacked capitalism and bumped heads with law enforcement.

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Staten Island D.A. Announces No Indictment in Eric Garner Case

Following a series of news reports, Daniel Donovan officially announced no indictment against Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Eric Garner.

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Councilman Arrested at Occupy Wall Street Donates His Settlement Cash

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez donated his Occupy Wall Street settlement cash to the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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Afternoon Bulletin: Occupy Wall Street Lawsuit Settled, NYPD Prepares for Pope

The city is doling out $25,000 settlement to an Occupy Wall Street group called the Free Network Foundation

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Afternoon Bulletin: New School Year Begins, Over 12 Gang Members Busted and More

Mayor de Blasio greeted children for the first day of school, and several gang members associated with crimes in the Bronx were arrested.

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Raising Base Wage for State Workers to $15, Cuomo Challenges de Blasio to...

"If you really believe in something, don't talk about it, do it," Andrew Cuomo said, calling on Bill de Blasio to hike public sector wages.

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Bernie Sanders Campaign Lawyer to Challenge Veteran Assemblywoman

Attorney Arthur Schwartz told the Observer he would challenged long-serving Assemblywoman Deborah Glick in next year's Democratic primary.

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Sanders’ Small Donors Are the Rockstars of 2016

Stand aside Koch brothers, Bernie's $27 revolutionaries are in town.

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Jumaane Williams Endorses Bernie Sanders’‘Political Revolutionary Moonshot’

“I’m proud today to endorse the next president of the United States of America, Senator Bernie Sanders, who will bring the revolutionary moonshot, baby!”

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The Great Refusal: The Evolution of Politics, Music and Pandering

We finally have a substantive dialogue happening between the creative class in this country and a grassroots political movement again.

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The Rich List 2015

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times for the super-rich.

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Unlocked Horns: Wall Street Bull’s Barricades Removed Three Years After OWS

Be free, non-sentient animal. The Charging Bull of Wall Street was released from its barriers on Tuesday, according to the New York Post. Barricades have surrounded the bronze beast since September of...

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No #Justice4Cecily? ‘Sexually Assaulted’ Occupy Activist Sentenced to Three...

An Occupy Wall Street protester was sentenced to three months in prison, community service and five years of probation this morning for assaulting a police officer after he grabbed her breast while...

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New Yorkers Should Say Thank You to Walmart

The West Coast is engrossed with protests against the government of Brunei (which owns the Beverly Hills Hotel) for its “extreme and inhumane” Sharia laws—and New York is engrossed with protests...

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Cecily McMillan, Former Occupy Protester, Released Early From Rikers Island

“The city and the state of New York labeled me a criminal,” Cecily McMillan, 25, told members of the press following her early release for good behavior from Rikers Island Wednesday. The Occupy...

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Occupy Wall Street and Gezi Park: Two Cities, One Protest

The following series documents two protests in two parks: Gezi Park (Istanbul in 2013) and the Zuccoti Park (New York City in 2011). I never realized in the two cities I feel I most belong to, my...

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Projecting Political Messages on Buildings Is This Group’s Genius Form of...

If you happened to walk past the Trump Hotel in Washington in last April, during National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, you would have seen “There’s a rapist in the white house”...

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Review: David Graeber Argues that the Enlightenment Was Heavily Influenced by...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus & Giroux In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and...

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