Articles tagged "occupy"

Now more people will learn about Nigeria's oil curse than ever would have before.

Balko, an investigative reporter for the Huffington Post, was kind enough to answer some questions about how our police turned into soldiers

In response to the harsh sentences recently levied against DDoS action organizers, online activists are trying to make the case that disrupting online should be regarded as a legal form of protest.

The radical, prolific political cartoonist reflects upon the failures and victories of the movement that occupied her for over a year.

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?

Standing outside the Apple's 5th Avenue Flagship store with Caitlin, Motherboard's press-savvy intern, I'm overcome by a contact high from sleep-deprived iPhone fanatics. The layers of sweat and dust, the jitteriness of the first dozen overnighters,

For all the good parts of the Occupy movement -- raising awareness about shady banking practices, "freeing the internet":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, etc. -- so much of the actual on-the-ground protesting seemed

At this point, ecologist pretty much have the predator-prey cycle figured out: As a rabbit population grows, a coyote population will follow, thanks to all the new, tasty rabbits. But once the coyotes are numerous enough to eat a _lot_ of rabbits, th…

"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background

Tommy Mitchell, who has degree in neuropsychology and works for a renewable energy company in New York, designed and built a solar-powered device charger he imagines leasing to fairs and outdoor events. And the idea came from Occupy.

No one yet knows for sure who the Tank Man was, or what happened to him after he stood in front of a line of tanks at Tiananmen the morning of June 4th, 23 years ago, after the military arrived to force out the students and workers who had occupied t…

During his remarks at Occupy Wall Street this past fall, Slavoj Zizek made the following point about the current formulation of radical possibility: “What do we perceive today as possible? Just follow the media. On the one hand, in technology and sex…

The two strongest visual images of Occupy this fall were: * a cardboard 99 percent sign; * a bedraggled tent. And in a way, Occupy in its early stages resembled nothing so much as a refugee summer camp. But this spring, as police departments

By and large, the hip hop community has remained curiously silent on the topic of rooftop solar installation. This is a shame. Fortunately, that coal-powered silence is about to be broken. I give you Sustainable John, and his new eco-rap video "Occup…

I recently had time to catch up with Chris Rogy, who's currently part of the group at Witness developing best practices for activist filmmakers. (Full disclosure: He's a friend of mine.) We chatted about everything from Witness' "How to Film Protests…

For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on. When I visited him at his storefront office near his home in Hastings on Hudson, New York, he was preparing to teach a n…

This past Wednesday a University of California "investigatory report":http://documents.latimes.com/uc-davis-pepper-spray-incident-task-report/ concluded some very predictable things: the November 18th incident on the UC-Davis campus, in which a numbe…

h5. See "Motherboard's new documentary about Occupy and hacktivism, "Free the Network," "here"::http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network A couple of weeks ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement re-upped and returned to Z…

I've always been fascinated by Occupy Wall Street's "Bat Signal," a projected "99%" blasted onto buildings as a rallying cry that first appeared in mid-November 2011. It reminded me of Graffiti Research Lab's "Laser Tag project":http://www.graffitire…

You’re on the Internet. What does that mean?

Do you lie and cheat on a regular basis? Do you cut in front of pedestrians in traffic? Do you consider greed to be a virtuous quality? Do you think you're totally awesome and worthy? Scientifically speaking, you are more likely to be upper-class, ac…

Is this what democracy looks like? No really, is it? Because if it is, well then, this is sorta awkward. When members of an Occupy faction "interrupted":http://vimeo.com/36124964 a sparsely populated City Council meeting in Northampton, Massachus…

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