One of the burning questions over the weekend was how the press was going to respond to the massive Women's March on Washington. Would they mostly ignore it or would they treat it like the Big F*cking Deal that it is?  This was a bellwether test for the media, a test they failed ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Jan 23, 2017

by Nina Ippolito On Monday, 25-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was sentenced to three months in jail for elbowing a police officer during her 2011 arrest in Manhattan’s Zucotti Park. Like Occupy Wall Street itself, McMillan’s case has raised more questions ...read more

• By Nina Ippolito
  Feb 17, 2016

Occupy Wall Street was a failure because its millennial leaderless co-leadership refused to employ the basic and well-known template for successful activism. The main problem was its lack of a coherent message or legislative agenda, which stemmed from its aforementioned lack of ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Occupy Wall St movement has largely disappeared from the public's eye, not because it has diminished in ambition or desire to spark a social revolution, but because it has been working on the next phase of it's agenda - taking the economy back from Wall St and giving to the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via Yahoo! News): CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - The big protests that were planned outside the Republican National Convention last week in Tampa, Florida, never really materialized, doused in part by a tropical storm. But activists say ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 18, 2016

The Occupy Wall Street movement has attempted to breathe new life into its campaign against inequities in the global financial system with a series of May Day protests across around the US. Thousands of people turned out in New York for a day of action that culminated in a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This is a transcript of a discussion between Occupy Wall St supporters Mikal Kamil and Ian Escuela and Professor Noam Chomsky: Professor Chomsky, the Occupy movement is in its second phase. Three of our main goals are to: 1) occupy the mainstream and transition from the tents ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: The culture you grow up in usually has a significant effect on the values you hold. If you have moved to another country you become keenly aware of this fact as you are able to contrast the values of your own society against that of your host's. When people are ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In this weeks mailbag we discuss the role of the Occupy Wall St movement in this years election, Chez's career at CNN, and the disastrous state of the Republican Party! The questions: Hey guys, wanted to know what you thought about the OWS movement. Do you think it has ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: The departure of Greg Smith, the executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has made huge ripples in the financial industry. While there have been other Wall St bankers quitting ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018