Thousands march in Hong Kong in escalating battle for democracy

Thousands protested in Hong Kong on Wednesday pressing China to allow full democracy in the city as a battle intensifies over Beijing’s attempts to control the outcome of a planned direct election for the city’s leader in 2017.

Apocalypse of the Mountain Tops

People making community is a clarifying drama, a surprising
prosecution of the lie that corporations foist on us that they are
normal. The gravity and
intensity of actual living has the effect of revealing their theft of
our lives.

Eternal Protest

Late Beastie Boy member, MCA, refuses to be a corporate sellout—from the grave.

School is Out!

Occupy activists join
the front lines against student debt this Friday at Washington Square Park.

What the Egyptian Revolution Means

Surging through the streets in uncountable thousands, burning policestations to the ground, convincing army troops of their commonality, spontaneously organizing themselves to protect property, direct traffic, and deal with emergencies, smoking out Mubarak’s attempt tocapitalize on the inevitable looting and violence, they are revealing to the world a new national template: self-organization.

Kit-Kat Habitat Killer

A recent Greenpeace report reveals Nestle’s contracts with an unsustainable palm oil plantation company that’s cutting into protected orangutan habitats to create Kit-Kats and other candy bars.

Social Networking Sites Used in G20 Protests Under Attack from FBI

A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in
Pittsburgh to participate in the G-20 protests, then subjected to an
FBI raid this week at his home—all for using Twitter. The FBI's actions drew chilling comparisons to those of the security forces in Iran during the most recent election protests.

Tactical Magic: A Talk with Aaron Gach

Meet Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic. We sat down at the Center's Tactical Ice Cream Unit to discuss magicians, ninjas, private detectives, and ice cream activism.

True Punk: Everything I Say Is a Lie

Two broad streams feed into punk. One is the African stream that since the mid 19th
century has been a wellspring of American popular musics. The other is the
avant-garde stream that since the late 19th century has blurred
the boundaries between art and …