Church of England split over St Paul’s handling of Occupy London protes The Church of England, not for the first time, has been left ruing its handling of the protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral, a situation in which it has…
The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district on September 17 has grown to a degree that seems to have stunned even its organizers and most ardent supporters. From the first days,…
While the mainstream media has been dominated by big stories, others are not getting enough attention. For example, Israel’s Jerusalem Education Administration (JEA) recently decided to enforce the use of new, censored textbooks in all private schools in East…
Chai Ling, former commander-in-chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement, on Wednesday visited “Occupy Boston” protesters to provide them with encouragement. “Without pressure to provide a public space for these protests to continue, the movement will not be…
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons are currently on the 18th day of a hunger strike that began on 27 September, calling for better prisoner rights and improved incarceration conditions. The Palestinian Prisoners Movement first appeared on…
Much of the criticism of «Occupy Wall Street» and the similar movements taking place — including in Hartford and New Haven — is a lack of leadership and clear goals. Those are actually reasons why this movement will continue…
Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the students of Carmela Carvajal primary and secondary school are living a revolution. It began early one morning in May, when dozens of…
If you’ve started seeing Occupy Together in your daily email box as we have, you probably know the word is spreading like a wildfire. The site has recently been linked on occupywallst.org, Adbusters, tweeted by Michael Moore and sent…
City’s biggest unions, community groups queue up to join the fight as young amateurs using Facebook and Twitter make more waves than the pros. The city’s most experienced agitators—the labor and community groups that typically organize local marches, rallies…
Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City. Hundreds of uniformed pilots, standing in…
