Tag: Occupy Wall Street

Occupy: we fight Power not take Power

Chris Hedges: It’s Not Our Job To Take Power, It’s Our Job To Fight Power!

“The Occupy Movement is the dress rehearsal for the end of the corporate state.” — Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress. Continue reading “Occupy: we fight Power not take Power”

Let’s break free..Mayday reports

DemocracyNow.org – As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal Magazine and a key facilitator of the Occupy movement; Marina Sitrin, author of “Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina” and a member of Occupy’s legal working group; and Teresa Gutierrez, of the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights. We also get an update from protests on the streets of New York City from Ryan Devereaux, former Democracy Now! correspondent, now with The Guardian. Continue reading “Let’s break free..Mayday reports”