Occupy Wall Street’s recent one-year anniversary, and subsequent re-up, inspired a number of commentaries on the movement. What have been its successes? What have been its failures? What does its future look like?
The last time we heard from Isaac Wilder, co-founder of the "Free Network Foundation":http://thefnf.org/, he was getting the hell out of New York City. We first met Wilder, whose peer-to-peer, wifi-hotspot driven communications initiative took front
The Frontline special on Wall Street had all the usual suspects: credit default swaps, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. But perhaps the most sobering is the persistence of a culture of greed, the worrying systemic problems that r…
Ask anyone in the bleary-eyed younger crowd milling around Peavey Plaza, an Occupy Minnesota hotbed, in downtown Minneapolis and you just may get a resounding, if not blissfully confused, “…Yeah.” In what’s either the most genius bit of coax-‘em-…
It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball. Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing
To those of us who experienced its genesis, the Internet seemed at first to exist apart from an unfortunate status quo; a brave new blueprint for a thriving peer-to-peer society that spurns corporate branding and advertising culture in lieu of actual…
_It was a weekly video team meeting like any other that we'd had since September. That is, until my wife announced that she was having contractions._ Sounds like a tagline for an epic sci-fi alien infestation movie, but it's actually the descripti…
Well, shit. Just when the hacks had almost entirely given up on all those lazy, disorganized, white, middle-class college kids collectively known as the Occupy Wall Street movement - I mean, the Republican primary circus is rolling through town, peop…
Ever since last week's historic "web blackout":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell rattled the cage in Washington, droves of lawmakers have ei…
Vlad Teichberg can't stop looking toward the door. As a curator with "globalrevolution.tv":http://www.globalrevolution.tv, arguably _the_ online aggregate for live video feeds from populist demonstrations from around the world, Teichberg is no strang…
The rising cost and declining value of higher education in the United States has undoubtedly been one of the key grievances of upstart social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street. And the anger is beginning to boil over -- just look at the stude…
After their "visible hesitance":http://www.breakingcopy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/time_mag_covers_dec_5_2011.jpg to prominently cover various popular uprisings around the world, it seemed almost as if in compensation that TIME Magazine chose to
The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s-int…
Were it not for the fact that Cyber Monday takes place online, and that it enables businesses of all sizes to make some bank on America's annual consumer binge ritual, it would probably be just another addendum to the depraved human behavior inspired…
For creative professionals who depend on the internet to make their living, the internet blacklist bills being forced through Congress right now are bad news. If passed, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and its Senate doppelganger the PROTECT-IP Act wil…
The "response":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found by mayors and police forces to the Occupy movement has underlined the strength of the demonstration, but now there's
Despite turning up empty handed on a first pass through heaps of personal belongings confiscated last week from Occupy Wall Street’s epicenter at Zuccotti Park, Isaac Wilder returned this past Friday to a reclamation booth at a Department of Sanitati…
If you’re looking to recover any personal effects swept up early Tuesday morning in the NYPD raid on Zuccotti Park, epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s only one place that may have what you’re looking for. Only it doesn’t have a mar…
If you haven't had your eyeballs glued to Tim Pool's live feed of the Occupy Wall Street protests over the last 48 hours or so, you've been blowing it. Since the forced eviction of Zuccotti Park at around 1 AM Tuesday morning, Tim has been blasting l…
