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MAX RAMEAU: Occupy to Liberate

Max Rameau

The last few years have been hard for us: record foreclosures, high unemployment, drastic cuts in social services, and government actively doing the bidding of big business at the expense of regular people. With a combination of bewilderment and frustration, concerned global citizens had asked one question over and again: when and where are people in the US going to rise up and take to the streets? Turns out, the answer was September 17, 2011 on Wall Street.

‘The fog of confusion has finally lifted’ by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali

The Occupy Wall Street protesters who have taken up residence at the heart of New York’s financial district are demonstrating against a system of despotic finance capital: a greed-infected vampire that must suck the blood of the non-rich in order to survive. The protesters are showing their contempt for bankers, for financial speculators and for their media hirelings who continue to insist that there is no alternative.

Group of people of many different races standing in a park holding hands in unity

Other Causes Seek Boost From Occupy Movement, Don Terry

Don Terry

As more than 1,500 supporters of the Occupy Chicago movement prepared to march through the Loop recently, Willie J.R. Fleming, a neighborhood organizer from the South Side, grabbed a bullhorn and wedged his way to the head of the mostly white crowd.

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