Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zuccotti Park in New York on Sept. 17. She had a tent, a rolling suitcase, 40 dollars’ worth of food, the graphic version of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” and a sleeping bag. [...]

People young and old are taking the streets to let our government and corporations know that we are a democracy that’s not for sale. Take action: www.bravenewfoundation.org/occupy:

Writing for Ourselves The occupation of Wall Street is now in its third week. Thousands of people have worked and fought for it, have given it their time, their bodies, their ideas, their blood. People have used their bodies as shields, sent letters of solidarity, marched, slept out, donated, tweeted, and more. There are thousands more [...]

Inside the growing movement to shut down the environmentally devastating tar-sands project Let’s get the jail part out of the way right at the start. Central Cell Block in Washington, D.C., is exactly as much fun as it sounds like. In fact, the entire process of being jailed unfolded more or less as any observer of, [...]

Llegué a Times Square alrededor de las 9:30 en la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2011. Una muchedumbre miraba transfigurada las enormes pantallas de televisión. En ellas se podían ver columnas de humo elevándose por encima de las torres. Caminé rápidamente en dirección a la sala de redacción del New York Times en el [...]

I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the two World Trade towers. Two planes, I was told by people in the crowd, had plowed [...]

Mathias O is 34 years old.  He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.  He lives with his wife and her 2 year old under a homemade shelter made out of several tarps.  They sleep on the rocky ground inside.  The side tarp walls are reinforced by [...]

Entrevista a Teresa Carmona, madre de Joaquín García, estudiante asesinado en 2010 En entrevista con Clarín.cl Teresa Carmona habla del asesinato de su hijo Joaquín y de la impunidad que campea en el país: “Fue una muerte muy violenta y lo más horrible es que el Ministerio Público no hace nada para esclarecer el crimen, el [...]

“There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to the other, and when each will listen to his fellow as to music. The free people will walk upon the earth, people great in their freedom. They will walk [...]

“Do you remember Mahmoud?” asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course, I do,” I answered. I remembered him as yet another troublemaking child among the Nuseirat Refugee Camp’s numerous rabble-rousers. He was defined by a stream of snot that never seemed to dry. Although loud [...]