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- From Capital to Collective Worker – pt.3
- From Capital to Collective Worker – pt.4
- From Capital to the Collective Worker-pt.1
- From Capital to the Collective Worker-pt.2
- Global Financial Crisis and Indian Poor
- How Unions Matter in the New Economy
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Occupy Your Education: A Note to Students about Changing the World
The current Occupy Movement has captured people's imagination and refocused the national discussion on issues of economic injustice, social stratification, and corruptions of American democracy. Contrary to what some people might think, the Occupy Movement is not composed solely of "young, idealistic college kids." People of many different ages, ethnicities, and ideological persuasions are involved. But there is no doubt that many -- but surely ...
Occupy Wall Street: An Opening to Worker-Occupation of Factories and Enterprises in the U.S.
The Social Economy Context
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has clearly expressed the hopes and great potentialities of the working class both in the U.S. and globally. The 99 percent are speaking up and saying that they will no longer do the bidding of the 1 percent. In essence it is the revolt of the masses, the underclass in their many guises. People in NYC's ...
America: Labor, Organized (#N17)
Thirty years before the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement, President Reagan fired enough striking air traffic controllers to fill a protest march across the Brooklyn Bridge (11, 345 PATCO members, to be exact). And in the three decades since Reagan famously said "if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated," U.S. worker ...
Harvard Students Join the Movement
Over the last 10 days, Harvard students twice stopped business as usual at this richest of all US private universities. An Occupy Harvard encampment of tents followed a large march of many hundreds through the campus protesting Harvard's complicity in the nation's extreme inequality of income and wealth. A week earlier some 70 students walked out in protest of Harvard's large lecture course in introductory ...
#OWS and the Young Trade Unionists
If you head down to the IBEW Local 24 Union Hall Auditorium on W. Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore on the first Tuesday of any month, you'll encounter a meeting of an energetic group of young union members from the Metro Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. The Young Trade Unionists (YTU) was founded in November 2009 by Cory McCray, a graduate of both the Baltimore City Public School ...
INDIA: Workers’ struggle at Maruti Manesar plant
Appeal letter to All Trade Unions, Organisations and Individuals
We, the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU), Suzuki Powertrain India Employees Union (SPIEU) and Suzuki Motorcycle India Employees Union (SMIEU), have been on strike in our respective plants in Gurgaon-Manesar from the 7th of October, 2011, demanding our right to respectable and non-precarious employment and unionization. Our movement stands at a crucial juncture today, we therefore send ...
FAQ: All you need to know about Occupy Wall Street
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Reuters
What is Occupy Wall Street?
Occupy Wall Street is an organised resistance movement, inspired by the Arab Revolution, especially that in Tunisia and Egypt.
Calling for an end to “blind capitalism” and financial woes, the objective is to restore democracy in America.
According to their Ocuupywallst.org, they “use a tool known as a "people's assembly" to facilitate collective decision-making in an open, participatory and non-binding manner. They call ...
Statement of Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Zucotti Park
By NYC General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together.
We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race ...
From Tahrir Square to Times Square: Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide
15 October “OWS” Press Release
Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to "Occupy Together" Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square
After triumphing in a standoff with the city over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan's financial district, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread world wide ...
Wall Street Protests Spread as Thousands Gather in Europe, Asia
Protests against widening income disparity took place across western Europe and Asia today as the Occupy Wall Street movement spread around the globe, with about 1,000 converging in London and 5,000 in Frankfurt.
In the U.K. capital, police barred protesters from entering Paternoster Square, home to the London Stock Exchange. In Frankfurt, marchers gathered by the European Central Bank headquarters, firing soap bubbles from toy pistols ...