I have written as a friendly critic – or a skeptical supporter? – of the Occupy movement many times now. Over the weekend I wrote several posts condemning the police violence at UC Davis and UC Berkeley that occurred this past week. Before that, I wrote several posts about the limits of the protest movement […]
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Events like the one in the above video have been far too common in the police response to Occupy protests across the country. I do believe that Occupy is at a tipping point, and that it must grow beyond and evolve away from the tent city occupations, but this police response is absurd and excessive. […]
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Is Occupy suffering from its own success? Perhaps it’s time the movement evolved beyond angry protests and tent cities. I was glad when I first heard learned about Occupy . Economic inequality is a real issue, not so much because of the inequality itself but because of what that inequality says about opportunity in America, […]
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Nearly every country in the developed world has some form of universal access to health insurance. The glaring exception to this rule is the United States. As a proponent of free markets, I find this to be a glaring failure on the part of American policy makers and business leaders. So we see Occupy Wall […]
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An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator protests in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. Slogans can be tricky. Occupy Wall Street is learning this. There’s always a balance to be struck between catchy, memorable slogans and meaningful ones. When you start using a slogan to actually talk policy, that’s when this balance becomes […]
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