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All Views Articles for 2011-10-17

Monday, October 17, 2011
	George Lavender Why California Prisoners Press On With Hunger Strike Thousands are refusing food to protest for reform of prison authorities' abusive policy of solitary confinement Read more
	Karen Dolan A Dagger Pointed at Maryland's Peace Movement There's nothing in Montgomery County's local, non-binding peace resolution about firing Lockheed's employees or tossing any corporations into the Potomac River. It's "a dagger pointed directly at the... Read more
	Glenn Greenwald What Are Those OWS People So Angry About? [...] Read more
	Jimmy Breslin People Rise, Cops Blink and a Human Rights Movement Takes Root in a New York Park Bell Dobbs went to lower Broadway and Wall Street by his personal transportation. It's a fine ride on his bike that has no name and a lot of years and slams and mileage on it as the worn paint and... Read more
	Shea Howell Politics in Place The story is no longer Occupy Wall Street. Now it is the more than 70 cities that are organizing similar actions across the country. With a breadth and depth unseen in decades, people are coming... Read more
	Johnny Barber Whatever Happened to Women and Children First? “All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.” Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, 1919. Read more
	Lacy MacAuley What I've Learned Occupying Wall Street and DC In squares, parks, and plazas all over the country, we're taking the time for true democracy to work. Read more
	Tom Engelhardt Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Police Move In These last weeks, there have been two “occupations” in lower Manhattan, one of which has been getting almost all the coverage -- that of the demonstrators camping out in Zuccotti Park. The other, in... Read more
	Laurie Penny Across the World, a New Spirit Took Hold – Power Was Taken Back by the People More than city squares are being occupied. What is being reoccupied is a sense of collective possibility Read more
	Nick Turse America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time Read more
	Chris Hedges A Movement Too Big to Fail There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn... Read more