| Nov 21, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyAs the Occupy Wall Street protesters are swept out of their encampments around the nation, many are asking what the movement’s next step will be and whether the police actions might actually help the two-month-old populist outburst grow. But even for those...
| | Economy / BusinessThe First Amendment guarantees the right to “peaceably” assemble. Unfortunately, that right seems to be in some type of Orwellian limbo at the moment. Eighteen cities participated in a conference call about the Occupy movement before they simultaneously...
| Nov 14, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s a David and Goliath struggle. The Occupiers’ tents are dwarfed by the skyscrapers of the financiers. The Masters of the Universe control huge political budgets — the Chamber of Commerce alone spent $276 million to give Republicans a majority in the...
| | Economy / BusinessWe’ve fought hard, ‘Gainst foreign foes; It’s our own rich, Who cause our woes. Between 1979 and 2007, the after-tax household income of America’s most affluent 1 percent ballooned by 275 percent, while the bottom 20 percent’s income...
| Oct 17, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyI was standing on a street one evening near my home in Washington, DC — it seems like ages ago now — with a chatty friend who travels often to New York. He mentioned that a few New Yorkers were planning an “occupation” of Wall Street. Not knowing what I...
