Without coalition building, organization, and participation from all walks of American life, neither Black Lives Matter nor any other protest group will produce the hoped-for change
Looking back on an American and Jewish experiment in communal living
Mark Greif’s thought-provoking new collection of essays defiantly refuses to lay waste our powers, getting and spending
How the Vermont Senator stumbled on a wave of angry and aspirational young people and became the ideal political leader for the post-Occupy Wall Street generation
Why the anti-Semitism present in other recent protests almost kept me from this important one
A film of nude people playing in a gas chamber is but one piece aiming to shock at the Berlin Biennale art show
Scholar Thai Jones traces New York City’s role as a center of American protest, from the anarchist marches of 1914 to Occupy Wall Street today
Feminist rock collective Permanent Wave gathers a powerful music scene around a core of activism. Just don’t call them riot grrrls.
UPDATED: Israel’s central banker delivers a blunt warning to Israeli Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox: Get to work, or the state will be jeopardized
CODEPINK, Just Foreign Policy, ‘The Nation’ endorsing conference protest
Clancy Sigal’s 1961 novel, Going Away, is a primer for the Occupy generation about the futility of despair and the inevitability of change
Commenting on ‘Commentary’
The Canadian magazine Adbusters sparked the Occupy Wall Street movement. It also has a weakness for Israel-bashing conspiracy theories.
Why it shouldn’t matter (even if it probably does)
Objectionable magazine is not the force behind the movement
Liza Behrendt defends group’s mission, direct action against Birthright
After police raid, reports of missing and damaged books
Plus drawing 1,027 Palestinians and one Israeli, and more
