It has been three months since the Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011. For the first few days, the movement was largely ignored by the mainstream media. Now it has gotten to the point where it cannot be ignored. The movement has spread to over one thousand cities across the United States and around the world. Occupy Wall Street does not have a clear set of demands nor is there an easily identifiable leadership. Yet, it is united by the economic suffering shared by millions of people. The movement’s lack of clear demands is the most persistent criticism people (both detractors and supporters) make against Occupy Wall Street. While demands are important, this criticism misses what the movement is really about. Read the rest of this entry »
Category Archives: Anarchism
Occupy Wall Street: a movement against oligarchy
Posted by Adam Hudson on December 13, 2011 in Activism & Social Change, Anarchism, Capitalism, Economy, Inequality, Late-2000s financial crisis/recession/depression, Occupy Wall Street, Poverty, Radical/Revolutionary Ideas
Tags: anti-capitalism, capitalism, corporate greed, economic injustice, economic justice, global economic crisis, Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, oligarchy, OWS, social movement, Wall Street
100 Years of Struggle: A New Way Forward
On July 16, 2009, President Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, spoke to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As an active, card-carrying member of this organization, I felt a need to write about Obama’s speech after I read it. He says some good things but, as a whole, I was not impressed. I felt his speech showed a need for a redefinition of the struggle that black people are fighting, which will be the topic of this piece. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Adam Hudson on July 22, 2009 in Activism & Social Change, African/African-American history/politics/issues, Anarchism, Capitalism, Human Rights, Race/Racism, Radical/Revolutionary Ideas, Socialism
Tags: anti-capitalism, black, naacp, radicalism, revolution, struggle