Barred from establishing encampments in his native Chicago, filmmaker Krzysztof Piotrowski visited ten Occupy’s in the Eastern US/Canada documenting the emergence of the movement.
American unions have been in steady decline for two decades, accounting for a paltry 7% of workers today. Al-Jazeera investigates the concentrated attack by mega-corporations on labor and how #Occupy Wall Street could spark revival.
Unrepentant architects of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Harvey Mansfield and Niall Ferguson get a holiday visit from the Occu-elves.
Occupy London has opened up its third space and first building, the Bank of Ideas, calling it ‘a public repossession,’ and transformed the huge abandoned offices of investment bank UBS into a space for political discussion and debate.
