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Occupy movement

January 2017

  • Micah White in Nehalem.

    Want to be part of the next wave of activism? Move to rural America

    Traumatized by Occupy’s dissipation, the founder of the movement realized that street protests have become outdated. Now he’s focusing on hyper-local activism

November 2016

  • Anti-Trump Protesters

    Protests won't stop Trump. We need a movement that transforms into a party

    Micah White
    The marches will remain ineffective as long as we aren’t capable of moving from the streets to governing locally and nationally
  • Naomi Klein

    It was the Democrats' embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump

    Naomi Klein
    People have lost their sense of security, status and even identity. Trump’s victory is the scream of an America desperate for radical change
  • A protester in a Guy Fawkes mask, central London

    Capitalism, austerity, revolution: why we took part in the Million Mask March

    Thousands of anti-capitalism and pro-civil liberties protesters took part in a march in central London. We asked them why

September 2016

  • Does the left have a future?

    The Audio Long Read
    Does the left have a future? – podcast

  • St Paul’s Cathedral

    Why a forgotten 1930s critique of capitalism is back in fashion

August 2016

  • Occupy protestors chain themselves to the stairs leading to the pulpit during Evensong in St Paul's Cathedral, on the eve of the anniversary of their occupation of St Paul's Churchyard.

    The Empathy Problem by Gavin Extence – review

    A dying hedge fund manager’s redemption is a promising idea, but the tale rings hollow

April 2016

  • “nuit debout” protesters in Paris’ Place de la République.

    Resilient cities
    Right to the city: can this growing social movement win over city officials?

    From the Taksim Square and Nuit Debout protests to bank takeovers in Barcelona and women’s workshops in Delhi, the pressure for more inclusive cities is mounting. As the UN gears up for its huge Habitat III conference in October, will governments listen?
  • University of California Davis

    Pepper-sprayed students outraged as UC Davis tried to scrub incident from web

    The California university is being accused of censorship after paying a firm to try to hide references to the incident in which police sprayed protesters in 2011

    • Nuit debout protests are confirmation that France’s political system is broken

      Pierre Haski

    • Nuit debout protests: have you been involved? Share your story

    • Nuit debout protesters occupy French cities in revolutionary call for change

March 2016

  • Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

    We need a new language to fight Tory dogma

  • Worker at wool-cleaner plant, Buenos Aires.

    Resilient cities
    Occupy Buenos Aires: the workers' movement that transformed a city, and inspired the world

February 2016

  • Striking workers in Ciudad Juarez.

    Juárez factory workers are protesting for their rights with an ‘Occupy-style’ sit-in

    Workers fired from Lexmark, a laser printer plant in Ciudad Juárez, are waging a lonely battle in a city where fighting back against corporations is rare

December 2015

  • Gary Younge

    It’s abundantly clear that the left can gain ground – but it cannot yet hold it

    Gary Younge
    Grassroots movements and electoral wins across Europe testify to the vitality of the left. But until it works out how to exercise power in the interests of its supporters and challenge global capital, any gains will be shortlived

November 2015

  • Stock exchange screen

    New economic models
    Capitalism isn’t dead; it can become a force for good in society

    Barbara Stocking
    There may be appetite for change but without a coherent alternative we must work out how to make capitalism work for us

October 2015

  • The Interference Archive

    Collecting the art of protest at Brooklyn's Interference Archive

    Prompted by the Occupy movement, a gallery in Brooklyn gathers art produced by revolutionary movements around the world to inspire activists of the future

September 2015

  • Occupy Wall Street Protesters in The Free Speech Zone on the Steps of the Federal Hall National Memorial<br>30 Apr 2012, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA --- New York City, NY, April 30th, An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement holds an American flag on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial that has become a gathering point for the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The Federal Parks police permit twenty five protesters at a time on the steps in an area deemed the free speech area, which all federal parks are by law required to allow. The Occupy Wall Street protesters refer to the 'free speech zone' as the 'freedom cage' --- Image by Julie Dermansky/Julie Dermansky/Corbis

    Downward mobility
    Occupy Wall Street: four years later

    This week it will be four year since Occupy Wall Street erupted in New York City and took over Zuccotti Park

August 2015

  • Donnachadh McCarthy

    Occupy Democracy protester has assault charge thrown out by judge

    Donnachadh McCarthy has charge of assaulting security guard in Parliament Square dismissed as judge did not want to ‘waste any more time’
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