Robert Brashear, a pastor and father of three, was 61 years old and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when Occupy Wall Street took Liberty Square. His participation in Occupy began that first day and continued in the years following the eviction of the protesters from the park.
Read More#Occupy @ 10: An Oral History in which Interfaith Activists Reflect on the Movement and Their Roles
#Occupy@10: An Oral History is a short documentary (30 minutes) produced by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA) that tells the story of Occupy through the eyes of seven interfaith leaders and activists who participated in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland.
Read MoreAdventures in Rebellion in Life After the Movement
Of course, our movement ended, but that doesn’t mean that its consequences are not reverberating still.
Read MorePeruvian president Pedro Castillo in NYC: Tue 9/21, 3PM @ Hammarsjold Plaza
We will be hosting a FESTEJACION to give a very NYC-Welcome to Peruvian president Pedro Castillo!
Read MoreNews Coverage Marking Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street
A round-up of news about the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
Read MoreGas Bill Strike: We Will Not Pay To Be Poisoned
Right now, corporate utility National Grid is expanding a massive fracked gas transmission pipeline in North Brooklyn. This project is not a replacement of leaking pipelines, it is an expansion to charge us, the rate-payers, millions of dollars in rate hikes to fill their shareholders pockets, and keep us locked into fossil fuels when we want to move onto affordable and clean renewable energy like geothermal, solar, wind and energy efficient buildings.
Read MoreEight Simple Steps Towards Revolution
Think big you might get your wish.
Read MoreCare Assembly: OWS Anniversary Edition
In the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street, we will be getting together in the park to provide some mutual aid care in the form of an assembly with political education about the ways in which we practiced mutual aid at Liberty Plaza.
Read MoreThe Peoples Puppets of Occupy Wall Street
They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we are seeds.
Read MoreAre You Ready to Tell Your Occupy Story?
In honor of the ten-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a group of folks from New York’s OWS are launching an oral history project centered around self-reflection and learning. This is a collaborative space, aiming to reflect our shared experience by telling our individual stories.
Read MoreThe Declaration of the Occupation
This image was made in October 2011, just as Occupy Wall Street was flowering in NYC. It is based on the movement’s Declaration, written by consensus and agreed upon by the NYC General Assembly of OWS in the first weeks of the occupation.
Read MoreFriday, September 17th: ALL DAY ALL WEEK: An Occupy Wall Street Story
In the summer of 2011 a group of young activists set out to #Occupy Wall Street. Using social media and self-organization, an action became a movement.
Read MoreBad Press, Good Music (Part 2) with Kanaska Carter
However, the best moment was right at the beginning, when people just wanted hope, so someone held up a microphone and I started playing “Imagine,” by John Lennon.
Read MoreTaking Magic Mountain, with Alex Carvalho (Part Two)
In another Occupy History with Hard Times Review, Alex Carvalho, a doctor now living with his wife and children in Chicago, reflects on some of his favorite direct actions of Occupy Wall Street, solidarity with protesters in jail after arrests, and the origins of Occupy’s takeover of Magic Mountain, a headquarter for the planning and infrastructure of Occupy.
Read MoreReflections on Leaderlessness and Demandlessness with “Truth Now” (Part Two)
In Part Two of our discussion on the Occupy Movement, “Truth Now” reflects on the Movement’s non-hierarchical structure and its hesitancy to make specific demands of specific powerful people or institutions, or to emphasize certain demands over others as part of the movement’s identity.
Read More9/17 Action: Enough is Enough
Join Extinction Rebellion NYC and say enough devastating droughts, floods, and storms.
Read MoreLiving in Zuccotti Park From the First Day to the Last (Part One) with Kanaska Carter
Occupy Wall Street erupted in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, several days after 26-year-old activist and musician Kanaska Carter arrived in New York City from Canada. She threw her life and work into Occupy on day one.
Read MoreJoin us at "Columbus" Circle on Friday
See you at “Columbus” Circle on Friday.
Read MoreA message from Third Force and Ultimatums →
Ten years after Occupy Wall Street one thing has become painfully clear: the people in charge of our global system have run it aground.
Read MoreTaking Liberty Square, First Days of the Movement (Part One) with Alex Carvalho
Alex Carvalho is a doctor living in Chicago. He was 28 when Occupy Wall Street started in New York City in September 2011. He participated almost every day until protesters were violently evicted from the park by police two months later.
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