Category Archives: OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTS
BILL AYERS – BERNARDINE DOHRN – RACHEL LAFOREST – MITCHEL COHEN
Listen to STEAL THIS RADIO SHOW November 18, 2013. Benefit for WBAI. Recorded in NYC before a live and interactive audience. EXCERPT: Bill Ayers & President Barack Obama Bernardine, Bill, Mitchel, & Rachel
DEBT AND/OR WAGES: ORGANIZING CHALLENGES
The following piece by George Caffentzis in the current issue of Tidal #4 (“Occupy Theory / Occupy Strategy”) is the first I’ve seen that examines the different forms of organization that a Debtors’ movement requires as opposed to a movement around wages (or trade unions). As such, this is a very important document (which ends […]
A RESPONSE TO CHRIS HEDGES: VIOLENCE, TACTICS, REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY & OCCUPY WALL STREET
This essay is available as a hardcopy booklet. Please drop an email to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com to obtain a copy. Note: I was not going to comment further on Chris Hedges’ widely published essay, “The Cancer in Occupy,”1 concerning tactics for Occupy Oakland (and by extension Occupy Wall Street). In that article, Hedges condemned tactics he attributed […]
FEMINISM & THE POLITICS OF THE COMMONS
by SILVIA FEDERICI (excerpt) We need to overcome the state of irresponsibility concerning the consequences of our actions that results from the destructive ways in which the social division of labor is organized in capitalism; short of that, the production of our life inevitably becomes a production of death for others. As [Maria] Mies points […]
WHERE THE CRISES INTERSECT: LAWRENCE SUMMERS, AL GORE, AND U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC POLICY
Introduction OBAMA’S WINTER OF NEO-LIBERAL DISCONTENT by MITCHEL COHEN President Obama’s chief economics adviser, Lawrence Summers, left the cabinet a year ago as rebellions against the neoliberal, austerity and anti-democratic programs he authored washed over Tunisia, Egypt, and Europe. But hopes for a shift in government policy were dashed, as President Obama continued to pursue […]
Guest Post
Arrested in Los Angeles — A Terrifying Ordeal in a Police State
by PATRICK MEIGHAN My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in […]
WHAT OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTERS WANT
It reads: Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While banksters continue to destroy the economy with impunity. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out. ——————————————– Not very complicated, is it? What […]
Oakland Occupy Dispersed, but then … Oakland Erupts!
Special Report by Chris Kinder Oakland, California Police Attack Protestors In the Streets Oakland, very late on Tuesday the 25th of October 2011 — It all took place under the endlessly circling helicopters, like giant gnats, flapping, buzzing, shining their threatening lights. It made me remember the line from a 1980s song, “I wish I […]
Strategy Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Mitchel’s proposal to “Occupy Wall Street” (OWS) Favorite sign: “I lost my job, but found an Occupation.” “Occupy Wall Street” – Strategy for Expansion Click HERE to download this as a PDF, ready to distribute! Dear Occupyers, Much of the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused on the disparity of income between the top 1% […]
Pacifica Radio Network Supports “Occupy Wall Street”
by Summer Reese, Chair, Pacifica National Board* Whereas, the concentration of wealth in the hands if the few, at the expense of the many, is more excessive than at any other point in human history, and Whereas, the greed and excess of the banking, investment and financial services industry has been left unchecked by proper […]
Come to Wall Street — The Revolution Begins at Home
By ARUN GUPTA What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable. For over 10 days, in the sanctum of the great cathedral of global capitalism, the dispossessed have liberated territory from the financial overlords and their police army. They have created a unique opportunity to shift the tides of history in the […]