by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota The question of how to build an effective movement amongst indebted students and homeowners has been central to ongoing campaigns that have grown out of...
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Geographies of a debtors’ strike
“Labor law is a shield, but direct action is a sword…”
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth So said an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer in response to a question I asked about the solidarity unionism model employed by the...
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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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Cops and the 99%, Part II: Cops, scabs, and the 99%
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York As promised, here’s my follow-up, a somewhat more opinionated take on the relationship between cops and the 99%. Scabs are paid to break a strike,...
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Attending to imbricated spaces
by David Meek, University of Georgia Since its first manifestation in September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has occupied communication spaces at various scales. Throughout the world,...
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Some thoughts on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York Like many members of the 99%, I’ve recently been preoccupied with Occupy Wall Street and the movements towards occupation of public space that are...
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Virtual issue – 'The protester'
George W. Bush, like Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Reagan (1980 and 1983) got it twice (2000 and 2004). Bush snr (1990) and Hitler (1938) were one-time winners. Good guys get it sometimes, too: Martin...
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