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Will Occupy Movement Be a Force in Electoral Politics?

Jan 1st, 2012 | By
Will Occupy Movement Be a Force in Electoral Politics?

By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL

Bernard Hyland, a software analyst and progressive activist, visits the Occupy Los Angeles encampment, and shares his thoughts on how the Occupy movement could leverage its power with elected officials to reform the existing system, even as it seeks to make deeper, more revolutionary changes to the economic and political order.



Occupy LA Cameraman: “This is history in the making”

Jan 1st, 2012 | By
Occupy LA Cameraman: “This is history in the making”

By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL

Jason, a cameraman on the Occupy LA media team, discusses the excitement and the obstacles he encountered while documenting the social movement against corporate greed, as he and hundreds of others camped on the lawn at Los Angeles City Hall for two months in the autumn of 2011.



Occupy LA: the lawn was trampled, but the garden of ideas blossomed

Dec 4th, 2011 | By
Occupy LA: the lawn was trampled, but the garden of ideas blossomed

By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL

Morris Griffin, a protestor at Occupy Los Angeles interviewed on Day 50 of the occupation – November 19, 2011 – demonstrates the creative nature of solutions to social problems which have emerged from the Occupy Wall Street movement.