Well, it would appear the real battles have begun - this I was anticipating as the obvious response to Charest’s new law. What I didn’t anticipate was an international day of solidarity with them. Wow! That came as a pleasant surp…

  Via @iamcaroline  – aka Caroline Contillo who is the associate director of The Interdependence Project came a tweet making me aware of this project that blows my mind and I think is much needed given the ability for Occupy participants to become burnt out. Mindful Occupation is well worth checking out and it’s mission is best defined [...]

Occupy, Anonymous and Michael Moore join students

Days after getting my master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, I arrived in Chicago yesterday morning for a family vacation and promptly felt like the dumbest journalist alive.
I’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street movement since it…

In support of striking students in Quebec against the Charest government and Law 78, Occupy Toronto is answering the call from Quebec to bring the spirit of the student strike to Ontario.
Both Quebec and Ontario students have the same demands, accessib…

Occupy Toronto Free School this Sunday at St. James Park
MEDIA ADVISORY – FREE SCHOOL (SKULE) OCCUPY AFFINITY GROUP OFFERING OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO RAISE FUNDS AND AWARENESS ABOUT ALTERNATIVES FOR EDUCATION IN COMMUNITIES.
Beginning Sunday May…

rabble.ca Editor Derrick O’Keefe will be on babble, our online discussion forum, this afternoon for the latest installment of “Oh Good Grief, O’Keefe.” Please note the new time as we experiment with finding the best slot to encourage rea…

Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago.
This week, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confront …

Members of No One is Illegal Toronto and Occupy Toronto protested outside Conservative MP Joe Oliver’s office on Wednesday morning, demanding that the Conservatives cancel, what has come to be known as, the Refugee Exclusion Act.
Listen to an int…

If you support the Occupy movement, relish discovering new music, and are gainfully employed, then you seriously need to plunk down ten bucks and purchase Occupy This Album. An autonomous project designed to support Occupy, Music For Occupy has produ…

The Occupy McMaster movement started in November 2011, when a group of McMaster students sought to stand in solidarity with the Occupy movements around the world. More than a year later Occupy McMaster continues to grow, evolving in number and activity…

This is a guest post from Christophe Elie.
May 1, 2012 – An eventful month at “Occupy Ottawa” saw the General Assembly approve a change of name to “Occupied Ottawa.” This discussion began the day the movement began and has been an ongoing discussion in…

When Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks write their sequel to The Trouble With Billionaires, let’s hope they’ll help us understand why the 1 per cent whine even when they win.
Take Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of one of the world’s largest private equity fi…

Last month, a broad alliance of organizations from across the progressive spectrum came together to train 100,000 people in non-violent direct action in the hopes of supporting a wave of action targeting corporations and the politicians that own them. …

Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an “extraordinary event.” That is what the city of Charlotte, N.C., called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of America is currently the …

As attention turns toward the mass student strike on the streets of Montreal, ongoing for three months, the Quebec student movement clearly exemplifies the power that activism holds to shape our collective imagination.
The student protests distant from…

Occupied Ottawa will be baaaaaaaack on May 12th. But we didn’t really go away. In this blog, allow me to present guest bloggers Matt Morgan and John Bainbridge w/ an interview of Squid Murgatroyd, writing here to give you all an update.
N.B. The opinio…

Back in the days of our encampment, I remember reading and hearing discussion about Occupy’s “asshole problem.”read more