Occupy The Holidays, Support Local Businesses
Occupy The Holidays, Support Local Businesses
The idea behind Occupy the Holidays is to encourage people everywhere to avoid corporate shopping and instead support local, fair trade, or independent business this holiday season. If enough people […]
Minorities Responsible For Violence On Minorities In Oakland
It’s minorities who are most responsible for violence against minority Occupy Oakland protestors, according to a report about the violence at that action yesterday, which resulted in the arrest of […]
Disappointment, Disorganization At #OccupyPhoenix
By Esteban and Elizabeth Garcia Phoenix, Arizona — The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s changed our country forever. We went from a segregated society to all men being equal — […]
Latinos To Mobilize Against Immigration Policy In 10 Cities
By Presente.org Latinos, immigrants and their allies will hold a National Day of Action called “Obama, Immigration and the Latino Community” on Tuesday, October 18 in 10 cities across the […]
What I’ve Learned Occupying Wall Street And DC
By Lacy MacAuley, otherwords.org I was standing on a street one evening near my home in Washington, DC — it seems like ages ago now — with a chatty friend […]
Why Occupy? It’s Personal
By María Cardona I appeared on a couple of segments on CNN this week where the topic was the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. A question raised was whether this was […]
NewsTaco Visits Occupy LA
Los Angles, California — On a recent Sunday NewsTaco editors Sara Inés Calderón and Renée Saldaña visited the Occupy LA protestors in downtown. Tents, children, dogs, signs, fliers and a […]
Class Warfare: Occupy Wall Street, The Board Game
Throughout the country protesters have gathered in the financial centers of major cities to voice frustrations over corporate greed, and, in the movement’s opinion, to bring attention to Wall Street’s […]
Occupy Wall Street Movement Begins To Get Organized
There’s an ongoing protest that started last month — or did it start when the recession began? — in New York City called Occupy Wall Street. The protest has been […]
The Legacy Of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai
By Jacob Scherr I awoke today to the sad news that Wangari Maathai, environmental leader and Nobel Prize winner, had died at age 71. I first had contact with her in […]
