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Letter from Charlotte: Building the Coalition
Occupy Charlotte is aware that the Democratic National Convention is coming in September. So the question is not really about whether to work with other groups, but how.
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Spanish Indignados Return to Their Squares
On Saturday, the one-year anniversary of the M15 movement brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets again in nearly 80 Spanish cities.
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Chicago Readies for NATO
Protesters arriving for ten "Days of Action" in Chicago are focusing on an array of issues - education funding, immigrant detention, foreclosures, the environment, economic inequality - while protesting against NATO.
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Moscow: Occupied
As far as the Twittersphere is concerned, Occupy has come to Moscow. But one thing is for certain - this isn't Occupy as we know it.
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The 99 Percent Wakes Up
Inequality isn’t only plaguing America—the Arab Spring flowered because international capitalism is broken. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the world is finally rising up and demanding a democracy where people, not dollars, matter.
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Un-Friezing Art for the 1%
Calling our action “Un-Frieze Culture,” Occupy Museums staged a Free Art for Fair Exchange to propose a new path, where contemporary culture can be in greater harmony with values of justice and universal respect.
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Facing Student Debt? Occupy Your Graduation
Tens of thousands of students across the nation will be occupying graduation by taping the dollar sign of their incurred debt to caps and gowns.
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Europeans to Rise Up May 12
We are united in our demands: the welfare of the 99% must be respected.
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Tar Sands Production In America Is Closer Than You Think
Tar sands in Utah, like in Canada, contain a form of petroleum called bitumen that can be refined into gasoline. But the process is costly, energy-intensive, and on a life-cycle basis releases far more global warming pollutants than conventional oil refining operations.
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Our Government, the Keyboard Cops
If CISPA enters into U.S. law alongside the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act – which gives the government the power to detain any American for anything forever – fundamental civil liberties will be threatened in a way that no democracy can tolerate.
