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You're Not an Employee
By Just Another Friendly Occupier CHICAGO, Illinois — August 5, 2026 Somewhere along the way, America forgot something so basic it ought to be printed on the first page of every driver’s license. You are not an employee of the government. The government is your employee. Read that again. Slowly. The government works for you. Not the other way around. Congress? Employees. The…
Waiting for Someone Else
By Just Another Friendly Occupier CHICAGO, Illinois — July 29, 2026 I’m beginning to think America has been waiting for Superman. Or Batman. Maybe Captain America. Hell, at this point I’d settle for the guy who returns the shopping cart. Everybody agrees somebody ought to do something. The problem is, that “somebody” is always somebody else. Somebody else should organize the…
Where the Hell Did Everybody Go?
By Just Another Friendly Occupier CHICAGO, Illinois — July 15, 2026 Remember when we were supposedly destroying America by standing in parks? Remember when sleeping in a tent was considered the greatest threat to Western civilization since disco? Remember when television anchors acted like a drum circle was one snare drum away from overthrowing capitalism? Good times. Back then, we caught…
Occupy Chicago: What Was Still There
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News The world — November 27, 2031 — 21:05 PHST One Year Later By September 2012, Occupy Chicago reached its one-year anniversary. The movement had endured. Despite police action, legal pressure, and the removal of encampments, it had not disappeared. People still gathered at LaSalle and Jackson. The name still meant something. The network,…
April 1 Was Funny Once
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — April 1, 2026 In the fall of 2011, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Chicago were both supposed to be temporary actions. Occupy Wall Street was expected to run from September 17, 2011, to the day before Thanksgiving. Occupy Chicago was supposed to run from September 22, 2011, to Christmas Eve. That was the plan.…
#NoNATO, The Bail Fund, and Chicago Today
Breaking News: National Lawyers Guild Condemns Preemptive Police Raids & Unlawful Searches on the Streets This coming weekend I will be out on the street with Occupy Chicago. We are protesting the NATO summit here in Chicago. There are a number of reasons. This summit is costing Chicago money that it can ill afford at this time. The city has been neglected at the hands of privatized…
Time to Make Some Changes
Chicagoist: Board of Trade has a message for Occupy Chicago There is no secret on my twitter account, or other blogs, that I was an active supporter of Occupy Wall Street months before September 17, 2011. There is also no secret that I have had misgivings about Occupy Chicago, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Those misgivings, however, are small in comparison to the accomplishments of that…