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Live in the East Tennessee area and need free healthcare? Remote Area Medical is open for the Spring!
Read MorePolar bear: 1 Wall Street: 0
Ten climate activists (and one polar bear) have been found "not guilty" of criminal charges stemming from the Flood Wall Street protest. The New York City Criminal Court Judge ruled that the NYPD's order to disperse violated the First Amendment.
Read MoreToday Exxon Mobil, one of the world's biggest polluters & contributors to man-made climate change, is in New York City. They will meet with financial analysts at the New York Stock Exchange to release its capital budget and to discuss how to distribute over $30 billion in long-term investments over 2015.
Working families and people of color have lost too much due to the extreme weather caused by corporations like EXXON. #ExxonShouldInvest in our planet & our communities! Here’s what Sandy survivors & community members have to tell Exxon:
Today Exxon Mobil, one of the world's biggest polluters & contributors to man-made climate change, is in New York City. They will meet with financial analysts at the New York Stock Exchange to release its capital budget and to discuss how to distribute over $30 billion in long-term investments over 2015.
Exxon’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, might discuss Exxon’s billions in earnings, risk investment, operational excellence, and profitable growth opportunities. But there’s one thing he will dismiss: the communities who are mostly affected by climate change, including those right here in New York City, who lost their homes, or their livelihoods due to SuperStorm Sandy.
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Today we have a tale of wage theft.
Read MoreThe debtors’ revolt has begun.
Read MoreOn September 22, three thousand climate justice protesters poured into the financial district in Lower Manhattan and occupied Broadway at the intersection of Wall Street for several hours. This direct action came one day after the historic People’s Climate March and sought to underscore the central role of capitalism in causing climate crisis.
Read MoreOccupy: The Tour with Original Occupier Michael Pellagatti starts where the city began at Bowling Green in front of the National Museum of the American Indian. Group size will be limited to 30 participants for a fact-filled 2 1/2-hour tour of OWS’ most important sites.
Read MoreBanksy in Gaza: “If we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful – we don’t remain neutral.”
Your weekend theater plans are here, Zuccotti Park, in NYC.
Read MoreThis free public program, co-sponsored by the Nation Institute, is inspired by the publication of Scheer’s new book--They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy.
Read MoreThat the insane rich are killing us is not poetry or hyperbole, it is a fact supported by scientific research and our subjective experience; inequality results in lower life expectancy and higher rates of violence.
Read MoreJoin this public discussion on how communities need support from Labor to fight back agains systemic rascism.
Read MoreWe assert that #BlackLivesMatter, that our babies lives matter, and that we will no longer tolerate the abuses thrust upon us by those who are sworn to serve and protect.
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Internet trolls have spewed a tremendous amount of vile hate at me since I began participating in the #BlackLivesMatter movement after the murders of Eric Garner and Mike Brown, but none of it has been so openly hateful of an entire group of people as what I experienced during the #MuslimLivesMatter demonstrations over the weekend.
Read MorePussy Riot's first song in English is dedicated to Eric Garner and the words he repeated eleven times before his death. This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror - killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds - for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We stand in solidarity.
Read MoreComrades Pablo Iglesias of PODEMOS, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Rob Robinson of Left Forum. This is what DEMOCRACY looks like.
On March 18th, brothers and sisters from all over Europe will converge in Frankfurt and join #Blockupy organizers in a day of transnational direct actions against against the opening of the European Central Bank. Listen to what some are saying about why they are choosing to participate: