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Press Herald
April 21, 2018
Eight months after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended in the death of a counterprotester, the loose collection of disaffected young white men known as the alt-right is in disarray. The problems have been mounting: lawsuits and arrests, fundraising difficulties, tepid recruitment,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
Outrage over rising inequality has simmered for years, erupting into the Occupy Wall Street movement and the groundswell of support for Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic .... In Austin, they pushed to pass what has been called the first mandatory paid sick leave requirement in the South.
Texas Monthly
March 21, 2018
... Street when investment banks were bailed out after causing the economy to tank, and the populist anger spawned movements as varied as Occupy Wall Street and the tea party. ... Now he was working as an arborist in Austin, renting a bedroom in a ranch-style house in Round Rock, and searching for a larger purpose.
CNN
March 9, 2018
Julian Zelizer is a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University and the editor of "The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment." He's also the co-host of the "Politics & Polls" podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @julianzelizer. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hisÃâà...
KVUE
March 6, 2018
In New York, a late afternoon rally will be held at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village before a march to Zuccotti Park, known for its Occupy Wall Street camps, in lower Manhattan. In Atlanta, the Women's Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a luncheon and roundtable on the “state of theÃâà...
Yahoo Finance
March 5, 2018
As a result, like-minded groups in other cities — Chicago, Austin, New York — have adopted the same hard-line tactics. .... Not so long ago, activists sought to occupy Wall Street. .... Perhaps the best places to look for signs of growing national momentum, however, are Chicago and Austin, Texas. ThereÃâà...
Billboard
March 1, 2018
And she's lent her voice to a number of important political causes, finding herself on the frontlines of the civil rights battle in Selma, Alabama, the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation. Baez deserves the chance to rest aÃâà...
San Antonio Current
November 23, 2017
This year, however, Kalle Lasn — former documentary filmmaker for the Documentary Film Board of Canada and PBS, co-founder of Adbusters Media Foundation, author, and one of the minds behind the Occupy Wall Street movement — feels Buy Nothing Day is ready for a boom, because people areÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
August 23, 2017
Not only does the tactic of urban occupation directly stem from Occupy Wall Street, but several “Refuse Fascism” organizers were active participants in the ... Refuse Fascism can persuade anyone to show up on November 4, which was one of the goals of Saturday's meetings in New York, Chicago, Austin,Ãâà...
CultureMap Austin
July 7, 2017
Never one to take the conventional path, she took her act to the fine art world in places like MASS gallery, The Contemporary Austin, Lora Reynolds Gallery, and OUTsider festival. She also used her character for activism at Occupy Wall Street, One Billion Rising, Queer Bomb, Women's March at the TexasÃâà...
New York Times
October 6, 2011
Mr. Obama, in a series of recent hard-edged speeches around the country, has channeled many of the grievances of the movement known as Occupy Wall Street: deepening economic inequity, a tax code that gives breaks to the wealthy and corporate interests and banks that profit from hidden consumerÃâà...
MyAJC
December 31, 1999
Outrage over rising inequality has simmered for years, erupting into the Occupy Wall Street movement and the groundswell of support for Sen. Bernie Sanders, a .... In Austin, Texas, they pushed to pass what has been called the first mandatory paid sick leave requirement in the South. “There's a lot of powerÃâà...
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