Immediately after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, candidates and elected officials started echoing its themes on our growing inequality.

For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.

The mayor's proposal is complicated, and those hoping for a strong law are worried it will fall apart once corporate interests have their say.

The Left needs to remove its self-imposed limitations and unleash its imagination and courage.

You can buy a poster celebrating the movement that decried capitalism's excesses from the big box store that best illustrates capitalism's excesses.

Pope Francis encourages resistance to an “economy of exclusion and inequality.”

Sandy was a wake-up call on how climate change will increasingly affect communities along coastlines. But are we ready for the next disaster?

From Amnesty to Occupy, the Velvet Underground singer was on the frontlines when it mattered.

The star of Inequality for All, a new documentary on the growing problem of income inequality, talks with Bill about America's shrinking middle class.

Those who dismiss these moments because of their flaws need to look harder at the joy and hope that shine out of them and what real changes have, historically, emerged.