Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fightback! General Strike Oakland! November 2 2011 (below, last Oakland General Strike, 1946) PROPOSAL: We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%. We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to walk [...]

Mario Savio Speaks to OWS: “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve [...]

It is Not Just Bankers. It is Capitalism. The core issue of our time is the potential of a mass, activist, class conscious movement to transcend capitalism met by the reality of a corporate state, fascism, conducting perpetual war on workers world-wide. We Say Fight Back! Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report: (OWS) supposedly “apolitical” [...]

We Say Fight Back! It is Not Just Bankers. It is Capitalism. The core issue of our time is the potential of a mass, activist, class conscious movement to transcend capitalism met by the reality of a corporate state, fascism, conducting perpetual war on workers world-wide. Chilean Students Hit the Streets Again: Thousands of students [...]