Occupy Melbourne: a strategic failure for Robert Doyle and the police
Camping in Melbourne City Square was almost sure to be seen as a provocation by a Lord Mayor whose tone has eerily channelled a private school headmaster’s, writes Peter Chambers.
View ArticleLet’s not occupy ourselves with simplistic messages
The lack of a unifying -- but inevitably simplistic -- message is in fact the strength of the Occupy movement. The call for messages is divisive and too definitive, writes Robin Cameron.
View ArticleTwo occupations: Occupy London and Palestine
As someone who has witnessed the humiliations daily endured by Palestinians living decade after decade under ‘occupation’ the word occupation was for Richard A. Falk an inalterably dirty word. That is...
View ArticleIt’s up to you New York, New York
Brilliant footage from the recent Occupy Wall Street raid (with particular focus on the behaviour of the NYPD), juxtaposed with the soundtrack of Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York.
View ArticleNaparstek quits The Monthly … Leveson latest … UK journos tweet from court …
Ben Naparstek -- the baby-faced wonder who was roundly ridiculed for becoming editor of The Monthly at the age of 23 only to make the magazine more widely-read than ever -- has now quit to join...
View ArticleHow Occupy moved to help storm-hit New Yorkers
The Occupy movement left their camps on Wall Street to help with the recovery effort in storm-hit New York communities. Brooklyn resident Keiller Macduff joined them on the journey.
View ArticleOccupy Sandy: hipsters help commit insurance fraud
Keiller Macduff, a New Zealander living in Brooklyn, joined a faux fur covered bus of hipsters and hippies to help clean up New York's Rockaways, including clearing out the basement of a black-marketeer.
View ArticleWill the TPP feed consumers to the wolves of Wall Street?
Two new trade deals threaten financial protections for consumers, writes ANU College of Law associate professor Dr Matthew Rimmer. The wolves are still at the door of Wall Street.
View ArticleA 2011 timeline: bin Laden killed, Occupy Wall Street erupts and Bolt found...
The Arab Spring reaches fever pitch, Barack Obama visits Australia and Aboriginal imprisonment rates worsen.
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Bullshit jobs: COVID is our chance to cut the crap from our working lives
Vale David Graeber, a man who helped us see through the bullshit. The post Bullshit jobs: COVID is our chance to cut the crap from our working lives appeared first on Crikey.
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