By ED DUVIN, Editor at Large Follow this link to Broken Movement, Continued. The founder of this publication, Patrice Greanville, and I made our way to the beginnings of the “activist” animal rights movement in the 1970s, believing it was an overlooked bastion of exploitation. Ignoring the intrinsic interests of our nonhuman family makes a [...]
By Rowan Wolf Apparently being lauded as a “victory” is the settlement that has been reached with five major banks (Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial) on their fraudulent practice of “robo-signing” mortgage papers. The settlement is for a total of $26 billion – a sum that sounds big but [...]
By Lacy MacAuley. Republished from Other Words – a project of the Foreign Policy in Focus. Image Courtesy of Rogue Media This past weekend, I stood in the rain at Occupy DC as police in riot gear trampled through the camp at McPherson Square. I ran as they charged the crowd with police horses. I [...]