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Wall Street is Still a Psycho Killer
The Frontline special on Wall Street had all the usual suspects: credit default swaps, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. But perhaps the most sobering is the persistence of a culture of greed, the worrying systemic problems that...
Are the Cops Getting Occupy High?
Ask anyone in the bleary-eyed younger crowd milling around Peavey Plaza, an Occupy Minnesota hotbed, in downtown Minneapolis and you just may get a resounding, if not blissfully confused, “…Yeah.” In what’s either the most genius bit of coax-‘em...
A Chat About Occupy with Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
The ice cream guy talks with us about OWS, mesh networking, and his activist son.
OccuPints: Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder, on Dissent and Free Internet
It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball. Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing...
On the Irony of Occupying an Occupied Internet
To those of us who experienced its genesis, the Internet seemed at first to exist apart from an unfortunate status quo; a brave new blueprint for a thriving peer-to-peer society that spurns corporate branding and advertising culture in lieu of actual...
Occupying the Occupied Internet
The Web is falling back into the hands of corporations, and it’s time to fight back.
Occupy St. Patrick's Day
It all went pretty smoothly until police raided yet again, arresting people by their faces.
'Free the Network' Trailer
A teaser peak at Motherboard's latest documentary on DIY info wars and networked discontent.
Say Hello to Occupy Baby, Who was Just Born in an NYC Taxi (Video)
_It was a weekly video team meeting like any other that we'd had since September. That is, until my wife announced that she was having contractions._ Sounds like a tagline for an epic sci-fi alien infestation movie, but it's actually the description...
Occupy Isn't 'Back': It Never Left
Well, shit. Just when the hacks had almost entirely given up on all those lazy, disorganized, white, middle-class college kids collectively known as the Occupy Wall Street movement - I mean, the Republican primary circus is rolling through town, people...
SOPA Who? The Government Has Proven It Doesn't Need Laws to Censor the Internet
A brief look at the recent past suggests that laws granting the power to censor the internet are unnecessary, because the U.S. government already has a far more effective tool: Fear.
Going the Other Way: Vlad Teichberg, Occupy's Video Curator, on Internet Censorship
Vlad Teichberg can't stop looking toward the door. As a curator with "globalrevolution.tv":http://www.globalrevolution.tv, arguably _the_ online aggregate for live video feeds from populist demonstrations from around the world, Teichberg is no stranger...