Sometimes the most chilling authoritarian thoughts take a seemingly innocent form. Listen, for example, to the following comment on the Occupy Wall…
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A shorter version of this essay appeared on Counterpunch on November 2, 2011 http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/02/report-from-iowa/ [1] Essentially the election is yet another…
Many in the dominant U.S. corporate media have been quick to label the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that spread from New…
1. You were in attendance at Occupy Iowa City – what was your impression of the occupation there: its scale, the makeup…
We are not aimless; we simply speak a different language – a language of mutual respect, participation, self-management, and action. We make our…
Paul Street speaks at the Occupy Iowa City Rally
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