Politics and its Discontents

Although we live during a time when the term 'citizen' has been largely supplanted by corporate misnomers like 'stakeholders'...

The past dozen or so years have left most of us familiar with the pixelated camouflage pattern, pioneered in Canada, and worn by many nation...

On Friday, fifty-four members of the global climate movement were arrested in Washington, DC after blockading the offices of an environmenta...

About a year ago I wrote a post on Tim DeChristopher, a brave young activist who was sentenced to two years in prison for disrupting an oil...

There are two pieces on the Occupy Toronto situation that are worth reading in today's paper. The first is the editorial in the Toronto ...

That's the title of a searing and insightful analysis by Glenn Greenwald as he examines both the mentality and the effects, both intend...

In this video, a group of college students are huddled on the ground in a defensive position at UC Davis on November 18. An officer, later i...

That is the title of Chris Hedges' latest column on truthdig.org. Despite the attempts to dismantle the Occupy encampments, attempts t...

News has spread quickly about the cowardly breakup of the Zucotti Park Wall Street Occupiers. Here is a link to a livestream covering the p...

Even if you only have time to watch the opening statements by Chris Hedges and philosopher, activist and professor Cornell West, this video,...

That is the title of Chris Hedges' latest column at truthdig.org, written after his arrest for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Gold...

Prior to his arrest the other day for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs, Chris Hedges issued the following indictment of th...

If you advance to the 30 minute mark of this video , you will see Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and activist Chris Hedges , along with othe...

Many thanks to Roxy Katt for her post and link to a story and video showing Seattle Police arresting a woman for opening up an umbrella whi...

For those who have not yet read Chris Hedges' Death of the Liberal Class , his latest essay on truthdig, entitled A Movement Too Big to ...

In my days as a high school English teacher, one of my favourite books to teach was John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the story of dis...

Hint: it's from a Fox affiliate.

With the world watching, and over 300,000 names on a petition to stop it, the planned 'cleanup' of Zuccotti Park, formerly called Li...

In an online article entitled This is what democracy looks like: Occupying Wall Street and Bay Street , Gerald Caplan and Amanda Gryzyb disc...

For people of my generation, the following videos are heartening, depicting as they to the willingness of military veterans to put themselve...