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.
View ArticleWilliams 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.
View ArticleClimate 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.
View ArticleStaten 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.
View ArticleCouncilman 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.
View ArticleAfternoon 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
View ArticleAfternoon 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.
View ArticleRaising 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.
View ArticleBernie 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.
View ArticleSanders’ Small Donors Are the Rockstars of 2016
Stand aside Koch brothers, Bernie's $27 revolutionaries are in town.
View ArticleJumaane 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!”
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleThe Rich List 2015
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times for the super-rich.
View ArticleUnlocked 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...
View ArticleNo #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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCecily 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...
View ArticleOccupy 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...
View ArticleProjecting 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”...
View ArticleReview: 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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