Activism

Can curation be a form of activism? And how well do New Yorkers know, or value, their city’s activist past? These are two questions raised by the exhibition “Activist New York.”

A look back on the NATO protests, Chicago Spring, and the current state and trajectory of the Occupy movement, its vast challenges and seemingly infinite possibilities.

A report from cacophonous Montréal where pan-protests have sprung up in defiance of a repressive anti-assembly law.

Mic check. The “people’s mic” is a tactic used by the 99% Movement to relay messages from a speaker to a vast crowd. This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement is Occupy Wall Street’s mic check to the “increasingly interested masses.”

“They are saying that the world leaders are coming to Chicago to meet next weekend, but I have news for them: The leaders are right here,” organizer Pat Hunt said when kicking off the People's Summit in Chicago.

I found myself in Chicago on May 1st marching through the streets. I quit my job to come out here and cover the fight for a different future, what local organizers are calling “Chicago Spring.”