Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself. This May Day we are fighting back. We are demanding a country that puts our families over their fortunes—public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, prosperity over free market politics.
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Be loud. Be weird. Be relentless.
Read MoreNew York City, 2025—where the rats run Wall Street, and the landlords drain your blood with a straw. And now, the powers that be—NYCHA, the developers, the cocktail-swilling bureaucrats—want to turn yet another part of Chelsea into their next luxury playground, bulldozing public housing in the process.
Read MoreReverend Billy Talen and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir Debut We Are the 99 % #OWS 10/18/2011
Read MoreFrom Steven: As time for my pardon from President Biden runs low — there are now only two weeks left for a decision — I want to remember the environmental tragedy in Ecuador that forms the backdrop for my campaign.
The pictures document what might be the worst ecological calamity created by a single oil company in history. They also make me sick to my stomach. These are three of the roughly 1,000 oil waste pits left by Chevron in Ecuador’s rainforest; most have been there for 50 years or more. The pits are full of cancer-causing toxins that are piped into the rivers and streams used by Indigenous and farmer communities for their drinking water, bathing and fishing. A large portion of the now $12 billion Chevron owes the communities will be used to remediate these pits. Thousands of people have either died of cancer or face a grave risk of death due to this totally substandard and preventable system of oil extraction. Chevron built this system to maximize profits knowing it would kill.
I took more than 250 trips to this region from my home in New York over two decades to try to help those harmed force Chevron to fund a lifesaving clean-up. When Ecuador’s Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that we won the legal case, Chevron refused to comply and instead had me jailed in the US on a baseless contempt of court charge in the nation’s first corporate criminal prosecution. It was pure retaliation by the oil industry and a brazen violation of the rule of law. Chevron also had me barred from leaving the country, preventing me from meeting my clients and stalling a final resolution of the case. By jailing me, Chevron also denied the communities they poisoned their right to counsel. The pits are still there. Vulnerable people continue to get sick and die. Don’t just take my word for it. More than 100 leading civil society groups in the world support the communities and my demand for a pardon.
A pardon will enable me and other lawyers to bring the judgment to fruition. It will send a clear message that corporations cannot jail their critics. To learn more or to help, please go to FreeDonziger.com and call the White House at 202-456-1111 to urge action.
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
Read MoreOn the noisiest night of the year, organizers with New York City's Anarchist Black Cross ask folks to join them outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They invite revelers to come, not in an appeal to authority, to speak truth to power, or any other contrivance, but rather to stand with others and show direct solidarity to those on the other side of the wall.
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court has taken away the constitutional right to abortion. Here’s how you can help.
Read MoreNuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, and eye-wateringly expensive. This isn’t progress; it’s a poisoned inheritance.
Read MoreThe climate crisis landed on the doorsteps of the Southeast, and you are needed to help these communities navigate out of the chaos of Hurricane Helene.
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Today is the birthday of the uprising called Occupy Wall Street. Occupy is a Virgo in the truest sense. Grounded in the hard work of movement and loyal to the cause of breaking and ending the capitalist system, the activists who sprung out of the cacophony in NYC’s Liberty Square/Freedom Plaza, Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Oakland, and others are part of moving our reality into a time of repair. Can’t you feel the possibility in the air?
Read MoreDirect action—that is, any kind of action that bypasses established political channels to accomplish objectives directly—has a long and rich heritage in North America, extending back to the Boston Tea Party and beyond. Despite this, there are many misunderstandings about it, in part due to the ways it has been misrepresented in the corporate media.
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On March 2, millions across the world will march for Gaza!
Read MoreCEASEFIRE NOW! RALLY FOR GAZA!
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🚨NEW YORK: ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE🚨
JOIN US, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8TH AT 1 PM. Today, an unprecedented series of events have taken place, led by heroic resistance in Gaza, showing the world yet again that the spirit of the Palestinian people cannot and will not be trampled and that resistance to Zionism and Western imperialism remains strong.
Read MoreThough Governor Kemp may deserve an award for his service to global capitalism, he is a true villain to humans and all living beings of the Earth.
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Read MoreOne of the most important battles for the soul of society is now being fought in Atlanta. Stop Cop City is Indigenous land defense, Black Lives Matter, Climate Justice with a dash of Occupy Wall Street. Your love, patience, presence, and solidarity are needed, on the ground, in June.
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Calling lovers and dreamers to Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest. Stand in solidarity with forest defenders from March 4 - 11, 2023. Love the forest. Dream of stopping Cop City.
Read MoreThe Rikers is A Death Camp Week of Action from Monday, January 23rd to Friday, January 27th to demand the closure of all jails on Rikers Island, the immediate release of folks inside, and a stop to the construction of four more jails in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
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