Comcast arrests spotlight Occupy issues: fairness vs. big biz
Nine Occupy Wall Street activists held a sit-in and were arrested at the Comcast Center in downtown Philadelphia urging the giant cable company to pay its fair share.
Economy adds paltry 80,000 jobs, official jobless rate 9 percent
Just 80,000 jobs were added in the U.S. economy in October and the official unemployment rate was 9 percent, almost unchanged from September.
Occupy Memphis: Sixteen days and counting
Occupy Memphis features several caucuses devoted to women's rights, diversity, homelessness, LGBT, anti-Capitalism, and Agnosticism/Atheism. The protests have been peaceful and widely supported by the citizens of the Mid-South.
Workers United convention rallies in solidarity with Occupy Chicago
Saying that it is "time to take our country back and we will, "over 200 delegates to the Midwest Regional Joint Board Convention of Workers United declared their solidarity with Occupy Chicago on Oct. 26.
Chicago unemployment activist’s message of hope
When Janet Edburg was laid off from her job at a Chicago photo lab equipment manufacturer three years ago, she experienced first hand the despair felt by millions of unemployed workers.
It's official: Top 1% doubled their share of nation's income
The Congressional Budget Office said in a new report this week what the labor movement and its allies have been saying all along.
Occupy Wall Street fuels growing bank divestment movement
A new movement is emerging to divest from bank responsible for the housing mortgage crisis and the global capitalist meltdown.
Who owns foreclosed homes in Mass.? No one seems to know
A new and potentially significant wrinkle was added to the ongoing crisis in the housing market.
Capitol Hill protesters demand “jobs not cuts”
Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva rejected those who say the "Rebuild the Dream" movement is an "answer to the tea party."
LA joins the We are the 99 percent movement
On Oct 1 people in Los Angeles came together from all walks of life to join in solidarity with the Occupy Movement on Wall Street, calling on the banks to pay their fair share.
