A Campaign About Values Voters, or Justice?
How the Occupy movement could be Democrats’ salvation.
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To the One-Percenters, With Love
Yes, your colleagues would laugh if you went out to protest. Marie Antoinette laughed too, until she found herself smiling up from the bottom of a wicker basket.
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Episcopal Church Divided Over Trinity’s Denial of Occupy
If I were CEO of Trinity Wall Street, I’d be alarmed at the idea of the “unspecified use” apparently demanded by the OWS protesters. But, of course, Trinity Wall Street does not have a CEO, it has ministers.
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Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?
The Times managed to find a Gandhi scholar who would argue that the greatest hero of radical resistance would endorse the critics of Occupy Wall Street.
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The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke
In order to restore meaning to the ideas of freedom and community, Rev. Billy exposes their current bankruptcy through a “religious” performance drawn from institutional, theatrical, and cultural realms. But make no mistake, it is real.
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God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement
Saturday’s surge of Occupy Wall Street-themed actions could be a turning point. There’s obviously more to be felt and said about this than any journalistic treatment could hope to engage; nonetheless, four RD contributors, moderated by Senior Editor Sarah Posner, shared their own thoughts about a movement that remains fluid and thrilling and quite literally indescribable.
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Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC
Many liberal religious activists, Rev. Merritt said, remain stuck in the 1960s in how they frame and address economic issues, yet have abandoned protest strategies in favor of the model of maintaining a Washington office whose purpose is to lobby members of Congress. Other religious activists are too focused on “events-oriented things” like staged arrests, “where they’ve pre-negotiated the thing, which is not to me civil disobedience.”
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Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.
Under normal circumstances, we would view the words of atonement in the Kol Nidre service as speaking about our own spiritual commitments—but these are not normal circumstances.
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#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist
Bear with me.
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