Iowa City, IA. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. to be pubished on ZNet on Thursday, November 24, 2011.  Sometimes the most chilling authoritarian thoughts take a seemingly innocent form. Listen, for example, to the following comment on the Occupy Wall Street Movement from a veteran New York city financial executive: “It’s not an a middle-class uprising,” [...]

Iowa City, IA, November 21, 2011, pubished on ZNet on Tuesday, November 22, 2011   Occupy Wall Street isn’t about real estate, and its signal achievement was not assembling shivering sleepers in a park. The high ground that the protestors seized is not an archipelago of parks in America, but the national agenda. The movement [...]

With Anthony DiMaggio at The Economics and Political Weekly in Mumbai, India:  Full cite is "Occupy Wall Street, Mass Media and Progressive Change in the Tea Party Era," Economics and Political Weekly, Vol. 46, No. 47 (November 19-25, 2011). Read online at http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/16759.pdf

Published November 16, 2011 on ZNet.  Iowa City, IA, November 15, 2011. One of the many refreshing aspects of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is its openness to outside ideas and thinkers. The Occupy Movement (occasionally referred to as “Occupy” below) has welcomed the reflections of writers, professors, researchers and other thinkers at hundreds of teach-ins [...]

Paul Street. Guest Edtorial in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, November 7, 2011. What a difference an election cycle makes. Around this time four years ago, the race for Iowa’s Democratic Party presidential caucus was in full swing. The big national money and media focus was on corporate-sponsored candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but John [...]

Chicago, IL. November 4, 2011.   Published on ZNet on November 4, 2011. In L. Frank Baum’s famous turn-of-the-20th-century children’s novel and Populist allegory The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the youthful heroine Dorothy is informed that "who the real Oz is, no living person can tell.” One of his powers is that “he can take on [...]

Published on Counterpunch (November 2, 2011).  PAUL STREET. Iowa City, IA. Noveber 1, 2011. What a difference four years makes. Around this time in 2007 the race for Iowa’s pivotal Democratic Party presidential caucus was in full swing. The big national money and media focus was on the corporate-sponsored candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, [...]

Iowa City, IA, October 28, 2011. First published on ZNet. Many in the dominant U.S. corporate media have been quick to label the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement that spread from New York City’s financial district to more than 800 U.S. locations  between September 17 and mid-October 2011 as (in the words of Time Magazine’s [...]

 By Paul Street and Alex Doherty  New Left Project at http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/breaking_the_spell and ZNet (October 22, 2011) at http://www.zcommunications.org/breaking-the-spell-by-paul-street Source: New Left Project Sunday, October 23, 2011 1. Alex Doherty: You were in attendance at Occupy Iowa City - what was your impression of the occupation there: its scale, the makeup of the participants, and the process [...]

“We Are Not Aimless”: Reflections on OWS, the Profits System, and Wisconsin Paul Street October 18,  2011, published on ZNet on October 19, 2011 and at Occpy Magazine (October 2011).  We are not aimless; we simply speak a different language – a language of mutual respect, participation, self-management, and action.  We make our demands in this language [...]