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  • Three faces of the Occupy Wall Street movement

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    As the Occupy Wall Street movement called for worldwide protests demanding more social equality to mark Labor Day, Future Challenges spoke with three prominent members of the anti-greed movement that rose out of New York last year. First meet Sofia Gallisá Muriente. She helps run the new Spanish-language Occupy Wall Street […]

  • San Francisco sprawl. Photo by Phil Whitehouse

    Endless urbanity?

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    Urban revolution appears to be an appropriate term for the growing number of new social phenomena, from the recession to the Arab Spring. The protest actions of the ‘snow revolution’ seem to be far from being the only example in Russia.

  • They Really Were All Greeks

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    Protests under the slogan “We are all Greeks” were held across Europe on Saturday against the new bailout-austerity package for Greece. If the organizers’ Tumblr page had some impressive pictures, in the European Union’s de facto capital of Brussels the event was somewhat lackluster, gathering perhaps seventy-odd people, who were […]

  • Occupiers in Paris: Goodbye La Défense

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    Sunday December 4th, 2011 – Paris. This is the last day of Occupy La Défense, Paris’ business district. The encampment has held its ground here for one month despite police harassment and rain. November here isn’t made for sleeping out in the open air, or in this case, under the […]