To recognize the power of protest music, acknowledge its role in keeping dissent alive and how musicians are translating today’s social issues and systemic problems into song, The Dissenter has decided to launch a daily feature that highlights a protest song every day. More Americans filed jobless claims last week than forecast. In other words, the United [...]

To recognize the power of protest music, acknowledge its role in keeping dissent alive and how musicians are translating today’s social issues and systemic problems into song, The Dissenter has decided to launch a daily feature that highlights a protest song every day. Written by singer/songwriter James McMurtry, “We Can’t Make It Here,” is a song [...]

From its inception, the Occupy movement has had music, with drum circles and occupiers with guitars livening up protest scenes. It has well-known musicians come to Zuccotti Park to play music or sing or rap for occupiers. Occupy Musicians rallied support for the movement in the first months. It managed to convince a long list [...]

10:23 PM EST The police moving in to do a sweep through Zuccotti Park was pure intimidation. The occupiers do not have to be out of the park until midnight. It is as if the NYPD wanted to escalate and create a scene and Bloomberg’s army wanted to make headlines crushing the Occupy movement on [...]

During a rally for the Chicago teachers union on September 15, a representative from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) introduces the president, Karen Lewis, who has led the fight for a fair contract and better conditions for students in schools. He says she taught everyone, including himself, that there’s power in the 99%. A [...]

There have been over fifty arrests of people at Occupy events to mark the one-year anniversary so far, even though the major protest actions to shut down Wall Street are not until tomorrow. The above video is a compilation of footage of arrests from Saturday, September 15. The video shows occupiers being snatched and grabbed [...]

—Agents photographing “No Papers, No Fear” protesters threaten journalists who were photographing them —TruthOut and Firedoglake.com ask public to help identify agents in photos Charlotte, NC — Two journalists covering the Democratic National Convention were confronted on Sunday by two undercover agents who assaulted one and threatened to punch the other in the mouth for [...]

A major permitted march planned against the Democratic National Convention and to call attention to “Wall Street South,” the city of Charlotte where the convention is being held, took place yesterday afternoon. It featured various contingents that included unemployed workers, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ community members, students and antiwar activists. A rally was held in Frazier [...]

It is nicknamed “Banktown.” The city is considered to be the No.2 banking capital of America. The city is Charlotte, North Carolina, and it is where the 2012 Democratic National Convention is being held. The setting is appropriate when you consider how much of a return banks and financial institutions have gotten from President Barack [...]

Welcome to Day 3 of the Liveblog Coverage of The Republican Nation Convention. Kit needed a break to take part in some of the solidarity actions so I will be filling for today. After delays due to to Hurricane Issac, today will be the 3rd day of the convention and the fourth day of protest. [...]