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What is occurring on Wall Street right now is truly remarkable.

PERHAPS THE most wondrous aspect of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement is that there are lessons for everyone.

Two very different movements with common roots in the failing center

In three deindustrialized cities, protesters find friendly cops, determination and despair

Does the economic justice movement include the chronically poor? How can it not?

Why progressives need to think beyond the mantra of creating a “middle class America.”

Not really. It represents black and Latino interests better than the Obama administration

With the spread of political occupations to all 50 states today, lessons can be gleaned from past occupations for a movement that shows no signs of going away.

They overran Zuccotti Park, but stopping a movement gone viral won’t be so easy

From Mobile, Ala., to Chicago, lessons in the importance of holding territory

From Texas to Kentucky, the service economy doesn’t serve up a future

The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning.

In Wyoming and Idaho, the movement confronts a conservative reality

One response beyond the 24-hour encampments in public spaces is occupying foreclosed homes. The appeal is obvious

Ever since the Garden of Eden headlined the Torah, savvy marketers have realized that we all deeply desire a slice of paradise.

Along the rutted roads in Youngstown, Ohio’s factory district, cavernous brick and concrete shells crumble, a decaying testament to this city’s industrial past.

SEIU and others are embracing the movement that has succeeded as they have faded

From Boise to Nashville, the movement faces an unconstitutional legal siege

Behind the scenes with rogue drummers, homeless, liberals and the black bloc as OWS grapples with self-government

After a wave of shutdowns, about 20 Occupy camps still stand. What do they tell us about the state of the movement?

Faced with protest, Walmart unilaterally shuts down three warehouses in Southern California

The few remaining occupations aren’t easy to find, but visiting one reminds you why Occupy set the imagination on fire.

I met Nomi on a bus in Baltimore. She was from Wisconsin and had been involved with Occupy Wall Street.

“The 99% Movement” has something for everyone, even the left, but is it Occupy?

Although media coverage has dwindled, Occupy cells are alive and well all over the United States – and beyond.

Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans?

The FBI says the five arrested before May Day are terrorists, but friends in Cleveland say they were goaded on by informant.

A disappointing turnout of true believers this Fourth of July week exemplifies how – and why – the movement has lost its mojo

Despite mixed feelings about Obama, protesters fight Mitt Romney, the ‘King of the 1%’

I put on my best right-wing drag for Michele Bachmann.

At the top of the list of what the Occupy movement accomplished is, “We surprised ourselves.”

Activists vow to remain after shutting down Portland ICE office over Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ approach to immigration.

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.