Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Occupy Wall Street published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 114
» View all items
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next >
-
Warren and Cruz: principled or polarizing?
Who is the face of American liberalism? Who is the face of American conservatism? In Washington politics and on social media these days, the king and queen of "base" politics are two freshman U.S senators — Texas' Ted Cruz for conservatives and...Tags: John McCain, Ted Cruz, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Media Industry, Jim DeMint
-
'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Bill Clinton, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Timothy McVeigh, CBS Corp.
-
What might have been: Life under President Romney
News flash: President Romney and congressional leaders met today to review the terms of the recently concluded fiscal cliff deal wherein the Bush tax cuts were extended by four years, the corporate income tax rate was reduced from 35 percent to 25...
Tags: Colin Powell, Media Industry, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Consumer Confidence, Homelessness
-
Meritocracy is ruining America, says pundit Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes, an editor at large of The Nation and host of the talk show bearing his name on MSNBC, was raised in a working-class neighborhood but attended some of the most exclusive schools on the planet. "I grew up in the Bronx," says the affable, 33-...
Tags: Political Systems, Book, U.S. Congress, Fiscal Cliff, MSNBC (tv network)
-
Fiscal cliff deal won't end war between Democrats, Republicans
"It's not all I would have liked," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, speaking of the deal on the fiscal cliff, "so on to the debt ceiling." For Republicans, the battle over the fiscal cliff is only a prelude to the coming battle...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment Benefits, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Economic Indicator
-
A scary situation that could have been even scarier
It could have ended badly. Last Saturday, as many as 10,000 people listened while blogger Frank James MacArthur broadcast his stand-off with the Baltimore City Police Department live via Internet radio. The BPD had been trying for more than a week to...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Washington, DC, Colleges and Universities, Protest, Borderline Personality Disorder
-
The Stone truth: Left-wingers are boring
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of...
Tags: Jimmy Carter, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Wars and Interventions, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone
-
Dan Deacon's split personalities share 'America'
Dan Deacon is obsessed with apocalypse. From a dilapidated couch in his Station North practice space, the city's best-known electronic musician and composer quickly rattles off a list: the United States' "growing military stronghold," drone warfare,...
Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Herring, Arab Spring, Music Industry, Genetic Engineering
-
The importance of Occupy
The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to make people aware of issues that aren't usually discussed in the mainstream corporate media: the greed of the powerful, the destruction of the environment, violence against women and gays and the perpetual...Tags: Media Industry, Annapolis
-
Ehrlich carries 1 percent's water
In his recent column ("'Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23), Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. illustrates the denial of economic reality in America that is continually propagated by the 1 percent. At the heart of his argument is the idea that the...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Labor Legislation, Annapolis
-
Sun lavishes attention on bumbling 'Occupy,' ignores effective tea party
Let me get this straight: a spontaneous movement arises and takes up the name "Tea Party" based on historical actions and the acronym "taxed enough already," amasses a very large number of either followers or sympathizers, and literally reverses the party...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Tea Party Movement, U.S. House of Representatives
-
Occupy anniversary to be marked with downtown art installation
The Baltimore SunA local artists collective will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the start of the national Occupy movement by recapping the movement’s high points with a light installation in downtown Baltimore Monday night. The national movement is...Tags: Fine Artists, Artists
Jun 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 27, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Jan 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 3, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 6, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Dec 10, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Aug 24, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 26, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 25, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 23, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 17, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Original site for Occupy Wall Street topic gallery.
