Peter Dreier: recent report sponsored by bank reform groups reveals that if banks lowered the principal balance on all underwater mortgages to their current market value, it would pump over $70 billion per year back into the economy.
Occupy Movement Recharges for 2012
January 18, 2012 By
Randy Shaw: The Occupy movement could greatly benefit from choosing a similar big target that could engage activists across the world.
Occupy War! Stay After the Rose Parade to Hear Cindy Sheehan Speak!
December 29, 2011 By
Steve Fine: While the Occupy Movement has been busy targeting the dominance and corruption of the 1% on the domestic side, it has inadvertently given those same people a massive free pass on the foreign policy side. This needs to change.
Stop Picking on Poor Plutocrats
December 27, 2011 By
David Swanson: After 10 months of election obsession and lesser-evilism, this place could look more or less the way it would have had Occupy never arisen.
The Defining Issue: Not Government’s Size, but Who It’s For
December 19, 2011 By
Robert Reich: Not a day goes by without Republicans decrying the budget deficit. But the biggest single reason for the yawning deficit is big money’s corruption of Washington.
They’d Like to “Occupy” Their Own Homes
December 19, 2011 By
Paulina Gonzalez: House by house, block by block, the residents of these South Central neighborhoods are being pushed out by landlords eager to capitalize on USC’s expansion.
What Will the Democratic Left Do in 2012?
December 18, 2011 By
Lawrence Wittner: Contrasting the administration’s all-out effort to save Wall Street with its indifference to Main Street, many progressives wonder if they have gained anything worthwhile with Obama’s election.
The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One
December 18, 2011 By
Ellen Brown: The campaign to “move your money” has gotten a groundswell of support. Having greater impact would be to “move our money” — move our local government revenues out of Wall Street banks into our own publicly-owned banks.
Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
December 17, 2011 By
Why are today’s politicians drawn to Theodore Roosevelt? Is it his political beliefs and achievements? No, says historian Rosemarie Ostler. It is more likely his pugnacious personality and his pungent way with words.
Friday Feedback: What’s Next for Occupy?
December 15, 2011 By
Friday Feedback: To just hold signs and chant about being the 99% and it being so unfair may have reached the point of diminishing returns while the mercurial attention of the American media and public is turning to the next shiny object.
Capitalism Is the Enemy of Democracy
December 13, 2011 By
David Kristjanson-Gural: Excluding people from having a say over what happens to the wealth we create is the first and the most fundamental way that any capitalist system undermines democracy. We are fundamentally disenfranchised in the places we work.
Occupy: You Can’t Evict an Idea
December 12, 2011 By
Ruth Rosen: Any successful movement must change the national conversation and create and dominate the terms of debate. This the Occupy movement has successfully done, for now.
An Open Letter to Supporters of Occupy Wall Street
December 10, 2011 By
David Kristjanson-Gural: I am asking you to continue to lend your support to the Occupy gatherings. Just show up as you are able, on top of everything else you are doing, to lend your encouragement and support to others and, in turn, to gather strength of purpose.
The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
December 10, 2011 By
Robert Reich: Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making the public more distrustful than ever.
What If Obama Taxed the Rich but Never Told Anyone?
December 9, 2011 By
Paul Loeb: Did you know Obama’s health care bill contained a $20 billion a year tax on the richest Americans? I didn’t until I stumbled onto a mention of this the other day.
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