This week, both coasts saw student marches on Monday and big-city police raids on Tuesday. As the chancellors of the University of California met by teleconference, students throughout the U.C. system held demonstrations and teach-ins opposing tuition hikes and police violence. At U.C. Davis, they called a student strike. Meanwhile, their counterparts at the City […]
Josh Eidelson
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After Police Violence, a Tipping Point
Occupy Wall Street supporters were shocked this week after police pepper-sprayed a line of UC Davis students for peacefully refusing to leave the protest site Sunday. That evening, as school chancellor Linda Katehi walked from a meeting to her car, hundreds of students lined up in silence to condemn the police’s actions. The incident inspired […]
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The Establishment Strikes Back
Occupy Weekly: The Establishment Strikes Back. This was the week that Occupy Wall Street faced its greatest pushback and pulled off its largest action yet. Sunday’s surprise police raid on Occupy Portland turned out to be one of several around the country, as mayors sent cops to clear occupations in cities including Chapel Hill, Salt […]
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Advocates of Keystone Pipeline Try to Co-Opt OWS
This week, the Occupy Wall Street spokes council-a recently created decision-making body composed of people from the movement’s various working groups-met for the first time; the OWS General Assembly voted to denounce “Jobs for the 99%,” a website backed by the energy industry and unions marshalling OWS language against opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline; […]
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The NYPD: A Movement’s Best Friend
Occupy Wall Street’s confrontations with police and politicians have only fueled the protest’s growth.
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That’s RICO
Corporations are increasingly using anti-racketeering laws to keep employees from unionizing.
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The Fall NLRB Season
What the labor board can do in its last months before paralysis
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Ambisextrous
Skepticism about bisexuality doesn’t just hurt bisexuals — it hurts the rest of the LGBT community as well.
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Strike, Interrupted
The Verizon work stoppage ended when parties agreed to “restructure bargaining.” Is this really a win for the labor movement?