In search of the North American Spring: Activists are debating how best to reach out and build their movements.
Occupy Wall Street
Moments of Excess: Essential reading for Occupy and Quebec student activists
Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life
(PM Press,
2011;
$16.95)
As attention turns toward the mass student strike on the streets of Montreal, ongoing for three months, the Quebec student movement clearly exemplifies the power that activism holds to shape our collective imagination.
The student protests distant from the halls of political power in Quebec City, are largely setting the terms of political debate on moves by the Quebec government to significantly hike post-secondary tuition fees.
Six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
The six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street began with joy and ended in terror.
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Occupy Wall Street is raided
The police clear out Occupy Wall Street site after two months, destroying the camp and property.
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Occupy political change. Report from Communism: A New Beginning? conference in NYC
It was one of those ‘snap to attention' statements. Political theorist Jodi Dean was asked, "What is the point of theory?" Her response? "It is to provide weapons." Dean was speaking metaphorically of course, but the quote resonated. The world we find ourselves in needs a theory that can cut through the leaden fog that says we have, for better or worse, the best world we can hope for.
