VIDEO: Occupy Abolishes $4 Million In Other People’s Student Loan Debt
After forgiving millions of dollars in medical debt, Occupy Wall Street is tackling a new beast: student loans.
After forgiving millions of dollars in medical debt, Occupy Wall Street is tackling a new beast: student loans.
McMillan spoke with Truthout’s Sarah Jaffe about prisons, protests, policing and the world she’d like to see.
Released from Rikers prison after serving 58 days, Occupy activist Cecily McMillan discusses prisons, policing and why she'll keep protesting. Cecily McMillan would rather not be famous. Not for the dubious honor of receiving the most serious sentence among thousands of Occupy Wall Street activists arrested over the course of the
#MintCasts talks to Dennis Trainor Jr. , who is pioneering an effort to bring attention to those really important stories that the media ignores, is activist, filmmaker, writer and host of Acronym TV — Dennis Trainer Jr., who also directed the documentary “American Autumn.”
Podcast with Dennis Trainer Jr: [email protected] Hey everyone, and welcome to #MintCasts, our MintPress podcast series. I’m Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress, and I will be your host. Thanks again for joining today’s conversation, where we will be discussing independent journalism, journalism as an act of activism, and where
Attorney: False arrests of protesters a ‘symptom of institutional suppression’ of speech and protest by NYPD.
In a clear rebuke of the heavy-handed tactics of the New York Police Department, the City of New York on Tuesday agreed to pay $583,000 in damages for the false arrest of more than a dozen Occupy Wall Street demonstrators on New Years Eve in 2011. The protesters were arrested near midnight in Manhattan for allegedly blocking pedestrian traffic
Cecily McMillan: ‘I stand resolved to keep fighting because your love ethic props me up and allows me to do so’.
Cecily McMillan, the Occupy Wall Street organizer convicted of felony assault of the police officer she says sexually assaulted her, was sentenced Monday to three months in prison, five years of probation and community service. In a case that has shined a spotlight on what critics charge are systemic failures in the U.S. justice system, the
‘We need much bigger changes … not just speaking out against inequality and not just speaking out against contradictory policies, but actually making those policy changes’
In reference to last week's "Spring Meetings" between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, critics are calling on the two financial giants to put their money where their mouths are and initiate policies that fight growing global inequality, rather than create it. In the build-up to the annual meetings between finance ministers,