Water for the Commons!

By T. M. Steiner The war on water privatization tenaciously struggles on.  Corporations advocating water privatization aim only to gain further economic and political power and negate the public advocacy for the right of constituents to retain their community’s water supplies.  Globally, citizens are threatened by the commercial investments in their water supply with respect to cost, [...]

Popular Resistance against India’s War on Commoners

Review of Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades (Penguin, 2011) by Andy Lee Roth Associate Director, Project Censored The nation of India boasts one of the world’s highest economic growth rates.  At the same time, eight states in India are home to more of the world’s poor than live in all of Africa’s twenty-six sub-Saharan [...]

The Fair Share of the Common Heritage Award

Entries are being accepted for the Fair Share of the Common Heritage Award. Entries should be original contributions focused on the Fair Share of the Common Heritage, also referred to as Fair Share Capitalism. Submissions should develop theory or propose activism to advance the Fair Share of the Common Heritage Wealth and the public’s understanding [...]

#OccupyHemp: Don’t let the truth go up in smoke

Mickey Z.   “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” – Carl Sagan   Upon receiving an invite to the NYC Cannabis March on May 5, I found [...]

Occupy for All Abilities: #PissOnPity

Mickey Z.   “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.” – Helen Keller   One Sunday afternoon last November—in the pre-eviction Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park encampment—my jaded eyes lit up when I saw a sign that read: KRIPS OCCUPY WALL STREET. Mic Check: The sight of dozens of disability rights activists occupying [...]