Tuve el honor deque me invitaran a hablar en Ocupad Wall Street el jueves por la noche. Ya que la megafonía está (lamentablemente) prohibida y todo lo que dije tuvieron que repetirlo cientos de personas para que otros lo pudieran oír (es decir “un micrófono humano”), lo que realmente dije en la Plaza de la [...]

In some ways, Zuccotti Park, the campsite, the Ground Zero, for the Occupy Wall Street protests couldn’t be more modest.  It’s no Tahrir Square, but a postage-stamp-sized plaza at the bottom of Manhattan only blocks from Wall Street.  And if you arrive before noon, you’re greeted not by vast crowds, but by air mattresses, a [...]

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With [...]

Interviews done on October 5, 2011. (Entrevistas hechas el 5 de octubre, 2011) We present some voices from participants in Occupy Boston. These are individual opinions that try to explain some of their reasons for why they are there and what they hope for. Presentamos algunas voces de participantes del Occupy Boston. Estas son opiniones individuales que [...]

Observations, Impressions and Images From Amid the Multitudes in Liberty Plaza The ongoing exercise in democracy transpiring in and around the Occupy Wall Street site in Lower Manhattan imbues one’s heart with resonances of the real. Many reasons factor into the phenomenon: Here, for example, one does not feel scammed and demeaned…gripped by the sense of [...]

In two protests thousands of miles away from one another on Saturday, a similar spirit of demand for government responsiveness to the people was made. In both cases there was a police crackdown and some clashes broke out. But in one case, the government showed flexibility and attempted to take steps to calm the anger [...]

There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class [...]

En septiembre de 2008 se registró el supuesto asalto, por parte de un grupo armado en el norte de Somalia, a un convoy que llevaba ayuda alimentaria y cuya operación estaba a cargo de un acaudalado empresario somalí y su esposa. El dueño de la empresa que operaba el convoy culpó del incidente a la Unión [...]

Looking for a bookshop that was no longer there, I walked instead into a labyrinth designed as a trap. Leaving became an allusion, rather like Alice once she had stepped through the Looking Glass. Walls of glass curved into concentric circles as one “store” merged into another: Armani Exchange with Dinki Di Pies. Exits led [...]

Republicanos y conservadores siempre se oponen a propuestas de aumentar impuestos a las corporaciones y a individuos ricos con dos afirmaciones básicas: Primero, semejantes propuestas equivalen a una “guerra de clases” anti-‘americana’, que enfrenta a la clase trabajadora a las corporaciones y los ricos. Segundo, semejante actuación extraería dinero para el gobierno que de otra [...]