Could yesterday’s day of action build a broad progressive coalition?
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Occupy Wall Street Day of Action Livestream
Follow the protest from the vantage point of a movement insider.
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Why We Need Occupy Wall Street
The protest has at last brought on a national discussion about income inequality.
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Generation Y Bother
Young adults entering the workforce today think they’ll be worse off than their parents—they’re not wrong.
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A Reading Assortment for 11/11/11
Occupy Harvard’s signs say “We want a university for the 99 percent!” Umm, where I come from, we call those “state schools.” #justsaying The U.S. Census reports that half of working women have no paid maternity leave. And guess whose jobs are least likely to offer paid leave? The 50 percent who need it most. […]
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Penn State, Sexual Assault, and the Abuse of Power
Why the outrage over the cover-up for this predator and not others?
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The Kids Aren’t All Right
In case you missed these examinations of public negligence toward needy children
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Has Occupy Wall Street Affected Anything?
It might have changed the conversation, at least a bit.