Activism

When hundreds of people took up the banner of “Occupy the Farm” on April 22nd and laid claim to a patch of urban farmland owned by UC Berkeley, it was not the first time this 5-acre parcel had become the flashpoint of a struggle between the University and local communities.

Shilpa Jain has served as a full-time “learning activist” with Shikshantar, an India-based people’s movement which aims to regenerate “living and learning communities” grounded in diverse cultures and languages, as opposed to a stultifying colonial-legacy education.

At the time of his death, Martin Luther King Jr. was planning a campaign around economic injustice—including a mass encampment of poor people in Washington, D.C.

The book Anti-Security represents a frontal attack on the concept of security, its internal logic, the politics surrounding it, and the institutions that employ it as a rationale.

An interview with the activist who made headlines when he was arrested while meditating at Occupy Oakland.

Hawaii seems both the unlikeliest and most appropriate location for the Occupy movement to appear and Occupy groups have popped up on all the major islands.