Today on Your Call: What should we occupy in 2012?
On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about how the Occupy movement can continue to be effective. On Monday, several west coast Occupiers shut down their ports, while other movements attempted to halt...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: How did 2011 change democracy worldwide?
On the next Your Call, we’ll talk about the year in democracy. It has been one full year since Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire--setting off a domino chain of revolts and...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: Who was Robin Hood and how is his story relevant today?
On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Paul Buhle and Sharon Rudahl, author and one of the illustrators of the new graphic novel, Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero. Buhle...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: The Dream vs. The Gap
The On Today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the economic realities of white, black and brown Americans. According to the Pew Research Survey, two out of three Americans now perceive...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: What explains the militarization of police forces in the US?
On today's Your Call we’ll talk about the escalating use of military weapons and tactics by police departments. Reporter Radley Balko, says, “Police militarization is now an ingrained part of American...
View ArticleArrests made in Wells Fargo protests
This morning, up to a thousand protesters converged on San Francisco’s Justin Herman plaza and marched through the City’s Financial District to the Merchant’s Exchange Building, where the Wells Fargo...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: What do you want from Occupy Spring?
On today's Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the Occupy movement and International Workers Day, May Day. Unions, labor activists and Occupy groups are planning to take to the streets with a...
View ArticleMay Day brings unions and Occupy together
Tuesday’s May Day protests marked the re-emergence of the Occupy movement with coordinated protests around the Bay Area. But May Day—known around the world as International Workers Day—is traditionally...
View ArticleOccupy: Still intense, just not in tents
The Occupy movement, which gathered national attention last September, has dwindled in terms of outside rallies. But that doesn’t mean Occupy supporters aren't still making noise.The excitement that...
View ArticleToday on Your Call: Does the Occupy movement matter now?
On the next Your Call, we’ll speak with two Occupy Wall Street activists, Jen Waller and Tom Hintze, who have been traveling across the country with their project, Less Wall, More Street -- talking to...
View ArticleCould this be our last election?
Big money is a big issue in this election. Since the U.S. Supreme Court made its decision in the Citizens United case, an unlimited amount of corporate money is flowing into the so-called “Super PACs”...
View ArticleOccupy Bernal: Occupy at the local level
It’s Sunday afternoon, and two-dozen San Francisco homeowners and activists are gathered in front of venture capitalist Peter Briger’s house, in the wealthy South Bay suburb of Atherton chanting,...
View ArticleThe United States of Debt
Upon entering the Eastside Arts Alliance in East Oakland, it’s clear that this a special kind of conference. On the welcome table is a stack of name...» E-Mail This
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