Occupy Wall Street observes its first anniversary today with the culmination of three days of education, celebration and resistance in NYC (see here and here). To mark the occasion we've pulled some...
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Happy Birthday Occupy!
OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons and Questions, Part II
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York I began part one of this essay with a trip to the Hunter College Women’s Day Fair, where the OWS Screenprinters Coop was set up for the day. ...
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OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons, and Questions, Part I
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York This past week, the OWS Screenprinters Cooperative had a table set up at Hunter College’s Women’s Day Fair, screenprinting and selling tee-shirts,...
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Occupy Wall Street and 'Israelification'
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy...
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Occupy Wall Street and ‘Occupation’
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York One of the first critiques of OWS from the left has come from Indigenous activists, Palestine solidarity workers, and others questioning the use of the...
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The winter of Occupy Wall Street?
by David Meek, University of Georgia The Occupy Wall Street movement has focused a magnifying lens on the complex relationships between space and resistance. As we pay attention to the evolution of...
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Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street and anti-Zionism
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York From the beginning of OWS, the issue of Palestine has been contentious, and commentators and occupiers have excluded it preemptively and as it emerged....
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