Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine
The Fed, it seems, was doing only what banks and the money market do for each other every day: making “liquidity” available at very low interest rates. In 2008, bank…
OccupySF: The Week That Was, Or Wasn’t
It is in moments like these, and probably ONLY in moments like these, that experience with police riots comes in handy. The secret is to focus on small goals and…
Occupy: The Movement We’ve Been Waiting For
This movement is larger than a single voice, a single message - or even a single person. It is larger than you or me. The mantra, "We are the 99…
Occupy Wall Street: Too Big to Fail
Federal, state and local officials plan budget cuts instead of help. Human deprivation isn't discussed in high places, only ways to grab more wealth and power. In plain sight, America's…
Moritz, Hume, Hellman, Conway
Top List of 2011 Individual Campaign Contributors
Table 1 includes all groups that have conducted independent spending (sometimes called “soft money” or “third party expenditures”) supporting or opposing candidates or measures. Table 2 includes all the committees…
National Writers Urge End
to Oakland “Crackdown on Free Speech”
Dear Mayor Jean Quan: The violent crackdown on peaceful, nonviolent "Occupy Oakland" protesters by your city police department is an outrage and a disgrace. As writers, authors, editors, filmmakers and…