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Debt

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On September 17, 2021
There’s been a surprising paucity of articles in the media about Occupy’s 10th anniversary, but Dissent has run a good series on it. One of the essays is on the Debt Collective that spun out of Occupy. Debt of all forms–student, consumer, medical, housing–was a big part of what spurred Occupy and little about this […]
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Get Your Visa Occupy Card Here!

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On October 1, 2013
Who else needs an Occupy debit card? Wow. So what the 99% want is a banking structure with the fees made more transparent? There’s a revolution for you! Here’s a defense of the card. It frames itself as “beyond reform versus revolution.” By which we mean not reform or revolution but more corporate capitalism. And […]

Victim

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On July 26, 2013

The true victims of police violence against protestors are always the cops. The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is app

Quebec

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On May 24, 2012

Like any good American, this is my general understanding of Canada: But it turns out that far to the north, somewhere past the sea monsters, there is a place called Quebec. And in that strange exotic

Occupy the MLA

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On December 19, 2011

There’s a debate among the legions of non-tenure track English and language faculty on whether to occupy the MLA this December in protest of their organization’s disinterest in addressing

Occupy: Successes and Challenges

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On December 18, 2011
Robert Cruickshank has a really smart essay on the relationship between the Occupy movement and established progressive groups. This bit I think is the crux: Occupiers are openly advocating revolutionary change from the streets. But here is where I think the progressive movement’s love affair with OWS should find its limits. Occupy alone won’t produce […]

Occupy Ports

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On December 13, 2011

Today, the Occupy movement chose to shut down ports in Oakland, Portland, and Longview. But did they do it with the consent of workers? Mike Elk and Andrew Leonard are skeptical and I tend to agree. E

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