Category Archives: Occupy Movement

Pastor teams up with Occupy activists to save home

Listen to Rev. Vanzant [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “This is the next phase of the Occupy movement,” said Mike Haack, an activist with Occupy Our Homes, an off-shoot of Occupy DC which works to prevent evictions. … Continue reading

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Occupy DC Fights to Stop Eviction

  If evictions continue to be this costly there’s likely to be fewer of them. Tuesday, law enforcement used no less than forty-five officers and thirty vehicles to evict a woman from her house in northeast D.C. For good measure, … Continue reading

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Banks Don’t Need Homes, People Do: The Case of Deborah Harris

(A shorter version of this piece was published in Union City, the AFL-CIO Washington DC Metro Council’s newsletter.) A sign in the lobby of JP Morgan Chase’s homeownership office in downtown D.C. read, “Banks don’t need homes, People do!” Sitting … Continue reading

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Ralph Nader Talks Independent Media and Pacifica Radio

Listen to interview with Ralph Nader on WPFW Pacifica Radio [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Interview by Pete Tucker, written report by Chris Lewis (@Chris_Lewis_) NPR is supposed to be full of liberals, right? Consumer advocate Ralph Nader … Continue reading

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Checking In With Occupy DC

Listen to occupiers Rooj Alwazir, Jason McGaughey and Justin Rodriguez on Voice of Russia Radio   [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “In a way I’m kind of happy the eviction happened,” said Rooj Alwazir, an organizer with Occupy DC, … Continue reading

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May Day: Past and Present

Listen to labor professor Bill Barry and organizer Tai Smith on Voice of Russia Radio [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “When people who are religious get in tough situations they go read the Bible. I go read labor … Continue reading

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School Officials Use Force and Police to Thwart Student Walkout

Listen to town hall, beginning with Principal Batenga [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “I will not discuss the suspensions in this forum,” Northwestern High School Principal Edgar Batenga said Monday evening at a town hall at the Hyattsville school. … Continue reading

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Occupy the DOE

Listen to TheFightBack’s March 3 show: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “You’re going to have a generation of young people enslaved to the credit card industry, enslaved to the student debt industry,” Justin Butler, a student at George Washington … Continue reading

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Freddie Mac, “Can You Hear Me Now?”

Listen to Bertina Jones, Rooj Alwazir and Rev. Graylan Hagler: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Can you hear me now?” Bertina Jones asked Monday at a demonstration outside the downtown office of Freddie Mac. Despite its pending seizure … Continue reading

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Criminal (In)Justice in D.C.

Listen to Victoria Clark: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “The whole criminal justice system… needs to be dismantled,” Victoria Clark said outside DC Jail at a Presidents Day rally organized by Occupy DC’s Criminal (In)Justice Committee. “We need … Continue reading

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