Moyers Interviews Hacker and Pierson

Bill Moyers is back! And here he interviews Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class.

This is a disturbing view of the status quo, but there's hope. Watch this one to the end!

The Book of Jobs: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around” | Common Dreams

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on our currect economic situation and prospects:

The Book of Jobs

Occupy Raleigh

In the fall of 2011 Occupy Raleigh attracted hundreds to its encampments and demonstrations in downtown Raleigh.

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"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice

Urging climate justice, youth delegate Anjali Appadurai delivers an eloquent plea and "mic checks" the U.N. Summit in Durban:

Appadurai via www.commondreams.org

LA's Finest?

A chilling account of senseless brutality by the LAPD:

My Occupy LA Arrest | Common Dreams

Melbourne Tent Monsters

Now for some much needed levity in the otherwise serious struggle for democracy at home and abroad:

Melbourne Tent Monsters

Otherwise occupied: What price revolution?

"When a citizen comes of age in a plutocracy, he has no moral choice but to slay Pluto or die trying." - Hal Crowther

Read one of my favorite local writers on the importance of the Occupy movement:

Otherwise occupied: What price revolution?