Activism

A hidden history of the 1960s and what lessons it offers movements in these current radical times.

Violence is what the police use. It’s what the state uses. If we want a revolution, it’s because we want a better world, because we think we have a bigger imagination, a more beautiful vision. So we’re not violent; we’re not like them in crucial ways.

The Occupy movement was most profoundly influenced by the wave of democratic uprisings and public occupations that have stretched from Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Syria to Spain, Greece, Chile and Puerto Rico over the last year.

Reflections from the streets of Occupy Oakland: this is not a divided movement, but a diverse movement – one with many perspectives, tactics, and ways of promoting social change.

A photo essay on the Occupy Vermont movement in Burlington, VT, including photos of protests, signs, meetings and the encampment in City Hall Park in downtown Burlington.

For all the head-scratching and hand-wringing in the corporate media over the “message” -- or lack of one -- as it turns out, the American people understand exactly what the Occupy Wall Street movement is talking about.