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Pakistan and India: Promoting the Quest for Peace
Written by Maria Farooq
Look at our past: the two-nation theory, Hindus and Muslims, the fire of hatred, prejudice and enmity. And the splitting of the Indian-subcontinent into Pakistan and India. Opposites, binaries, the relationship of polarities. Is it strange to recall that opposites always attract? Can’t we dream of a bond of mutual […]
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An Artificial Protest: Occupy Wall Street
Written by Josh Grundleger
The American media has been awash with jubilant exaltations of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). However, despite many claims, the movement is not a transformative revolutionary force. While indubitably there is a small core that is committed to dramatic, even revolutionary, change, they are not representative of most Americans, or even, […]
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OWS: occupying the Indian imagination
Written by Ajinkya
OWS in India: Occupying the legislature rather than the Dalaal Street.
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From Wall Street to Central: How OWS is seen in China
Written by Clément Renaud
Having followed the OWS movement since its beginnings, what I find really interesting is all the different ways of appropriation that people come up with. As Jay Sown said recently in a video: “[OWS] is just specific enough to capture the basic sentiment that so many people share, and just vague enough to let […]
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A Corporatocracy for the People, by the People
Written by Sarah Stamp
Occupy Wall Street is a progressive ideological social movement that is gaining strength in numbers in spite of increasing clashes with police and bad weather. Originating in September of 2011, the movement was initially designed as a popular occupation of 20,000 people targeting Wall Street, New York. The movement has […]
