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Occupy Wall Street

October 2021

  • ‘Occupy was dismissed for years as ineffective, but time has disproven the cynics.’

    Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it

    Akin Olla
    A decade ago Occupy reframed US political debate, trained a generation of activists, and served as a dress rehearsal for movements that followed

September 2021

  • The Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, New York, September 2011.

    ‘We showed it was possible to create a movement from almost nothing’: Occupy Wall Street 10 years on

    Some say it inspired BLM and the growth of the US left. Others see it as an abject failure. A decade after the occupation of New York’s Zuccotti Park, the people who were there look back

January 2021

  • Peter Turchin

    We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden

    Peter Turchin, an entomologist-turned-historian, offers insight into the battle between elites

September 2020

  • Rebecca Solnit

    David Graeber pushed us to imagine greater human possibilities

    Rebecca Solnit
    The anthropologist, who died last week, had cheerful, insurrectionary verve as a scholar and direct-action activist, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

December 2019

  • Rebecca Solnit

    The 2010s: what just happened?
    How a decade of disillusion gave way to people power

    Rebecca Solnit
    From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to school climate strikes, the power of popular movements can no longer be ignored, says journalist and author Rebecca Solnit

November 2019

  • A member of Occupy London, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, outside the High Court in London, January 18, 2012

    So long, 2010s: the decade in review
    Streets on fire: how a decade of protest shaped the world

    From Occupy Wall Street to Extinction Rebellion, this has been a combustible 10 years

April 2019

  • Astra Taylor.

    ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution

    The writer and film-maker explores the meaning of democracy in a new documentary and book, and discusses the current state of politics, from Donald Trump to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

November 2017

  • occupy protest

    I started Occupy Wall Street. Russia tried to co-opt me

    Micah White
    We are witnessing the advent of social movement warfare: the deployment of social protest as an effective alternative to conventional military conflict

July 2017

  • Carne Ross photographed for the Observer New Review in Copenhagen, Denmark by Claus Peuckert July 2017

    Ex-diplomat Carne Ross: the case for anarchism

    How a high-flying diplomat and Middle East adviser lost his faith in western democracy – but put his trust in people power

March 2017

  • Paul Mason films Lara Sawalha and Sirine Saba in Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere

    Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere review – Paul Mason restages global protests

    The audience play their part in the Arab Spring and debate whether Occupy curbed capitalist power as the journalist interrogates a decade of revolt

January 2017

  • Micah White in Nehalem.

    Want to be part of the next wave of activism? Move to rural America

    Traumatized by Occupy’s dissipation, the founder of the movement realized that street protests have become outdated. Now he’s focusing on hyper-local activism

October 2016

  • The "Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera" sale will take place on September 29, 2010, on the second anniversary of the firm's bankruptcy, and comprises of artworks which hung on the walls of Lehman Brothers' offices in Europe.

    Downward mobility
    Eight years after the Great Recession, recovery still rings hollow

    Eight years after the Great Recessions, the White House claims the economic recovery is here. But many aren’t feeling it. Here, five people reflect on how their lives have changed

September 2016

  • An Occupy Wall Street activist performs in Zuccotti Park on the fifth anniversary of the movement in New York on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. Five years after police cleared the park in an overnight raid, demonstrators gathered to commemorate the movement and what they said has been its lasting impact. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Occupy Wall Street reunites five years later: 'It never ended for most of us'

    Activists of the movement, splintered and diminished since it prompted worldwide protests against inequality, reunited and reflected on Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders and the legacy of Occupy

August 2016

  • Thomas Frank

    With Trump certain to lose, you can forget about a progressive Clinton

    Thomas Frank
    Come November, Clinton will have won her great victory – not as a champion of working people’s concerns, but as the greatest moderate of them all

April 2016

  • wall street

    Breaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership

    Nathan Schneider
    Some of the country’s biggest financial institutions would still need public bailouts if they failed. But it’s not their size that’s the problem, it’s how they’re run

March 2016

  • Worker at wool-cleaner plant, Buenos Aires.

    Resilient cities
    Occupy Buenos Aires: the workers' movement that transformed a city, and inspired the world

    The Argentinian capital’s many cooperatives showed that Occupy movements were not simply a response to economic crisis – they could be sustainable business models, too. So why are they now under threat?

January 2016

  • rollercoaster

    I have zero invested in stocks. But the stock market rollercoaster still irritates me

    David Ferguson
    For me, a hot stock tip is boiling veggies in your ramen broth before adding noodles. I still bet I’d do a better job on Wall Street than today’s clowns

October 2015

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    Wealth therapy tackles woes of the rich: 'It’s really isolating to have lots of money'

    It’s tough at the top. As one psychological counsellor to the 1% says: ‘I am not necessarily comparing it to what people of color have to go through, but …’

September 2015

  • Bernie Sanders Holds Campaign Rally At Virginia Fairground<br>MANASSAS, VA - SEPTEMBER 14: Thousands of people gather to hear Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during a campaign rally at the Prince William County Fairground September 14, 2015 in Manassas, Virginia. Sanders addressed 12,000 students at Christian Liberty University earlier in the day. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Former Occupy Wall Street protesters rally around Bernie Sanders campaign

  • Occupy Wall Street Protesters in The Free Speech Zone on the Steps of the Federal Hall National Memorial<br>30 Apr 2012, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA --- New York City, NY, April 30th, An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement holds an American flag on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial that has become a gathering point for the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The Federal Parks police permit twenty five protesters at a time on the steps in an area deemed the free speech area, which all federal parks are by law required to allow. The Occupy Wall Street protesters refer to the 'free speech zone' as the 'freedom cage' --- Image by Julie Dermansky/Julie Dermansky/Corbis

    Downward mobility
    Occupy Wall Street: four years later

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