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Better Off Dead?

Thu, 4/5/2012

Social movements have a history of producing eye-catching protest art, the most famous example of which is Picasso's Guernica, created in response to the bombing of Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War. In pop culture, Banksy and Shepard Fairey have used politics to inform their graphic designs. In that tradition we bring you Occupy Art: The People's Movement In Visual, a collection of some of the most compelling messages and images to emerge from the Occupy Movement.

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Along a stretch of sidewalk in front of Portland's City Hall, some 50 people stood braving the rain in the hours before the city's final public budget hearing last week, where heavy austerity cuts are expected to go through.

Communities of color lost more than double the wealth of predominantly white communities in the Atlanta housing crisis in 2012.

Right-wing billionaires, including media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and the climate-denying industrialists Charles and David Koch, are threatening to buy the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun.

A black mound of Canadian oil waste is rising over Detroit, courtesy of the Koch brothers.

Monsanto snuck a "rider" last week into the latest Senate agricultural legislation, giving the biotech giant blanket immunity from USDA action to halt potentially harmful GMO crops.

There's a big difference between our perception of wealth inequality in America, and how the real numbers add up.

Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.

Tens of thousands from across the world called for new measures of liberty and dignity as they descended on Tunis to open the weeklong World Social Forum.

Big Brother is no longer fiction. It’s official U.S. policy, as manufactured national security threats have come to matter more than fundamental freedoms.

C Muschi

I would like to address the most common complaint about my writing about the Québec student movement: namely, that it is “biased.” My simple response to this is: You’re god damned right it is!

A people's democracy on a global scale is within reach -- if we have the courage to seize it.

The Gill Tract's Only Hope is Occupation

This occupation is our last chance to effectively communicate with U.C. Berkeley about the future of this land.

New York City's Bus Strike At Critical Juncture

Employee Protection Provisions are at the heart of the bus strikers' dispute roiling New York City, where 24-hour pickets set up by the Amalgamated Transit Union surrounded bus depots from the Bronx to Staten Island.