Kirill Medvedev is one of Russia’s best-known young writers and political activists. He’s a fan and translator of Charles Bukowski, and a leftist who carried political pollen from Occupy Wall Street to… Read more »

The world’s a mess, and it’s a fine time to be wishing a happy seventy-fifth birthday to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, writer, theorist, translator, activist, and noted rocker of saris and… Read more »

To an outsider, the current unrest in Turkey, which began as a protest against the decimation of Gezi Park, one of Istanbul’s last public green spaces, seems to have many echoes… Read more »

The City of New York and Brookfield Properties has agreed to pay more than $233,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street over the destruction of the People’s Library… Read more »

For all those who love Lorca’s paen to the city, Poet In New York, the New York Public Library will soon be hosting an exhibition, “Back Tomorrow: Federico García Lorca… Read more »

The People’s Bailout raised enough money to abolish 5 million dollars worth of medical debt… Read more »

What political leaders the world over refuse to admit, monkeys understand at first sight. Primatologist Frans de Waal revisits an old experiment and discovers one of the truths of the… Read more »

Next Monday, September 17th, marks the anniversary of the Occupy movement, which began last year on a sunny Saturday with a crowd of protestors marching around the charging bull on Wall Street… Read more »

The People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street observe that books have played a crucial role in the OWS. As they write on their Facebook page: Books have become a key… Read more »

Above, two posters spotted in New York advertising May Day festivities connected to Occupy Wall Street. (The poster on top is hanging in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the other in the… 2 / Read more »