Occupycom

Occupy.com continued in 2015 to shine a light on some of the most crucial economic, political, social and environmental issues affecting Americans and people around the world. Here at home, we documented the steady rise and ongoing success of the movement to establish a $15 minimum wage in cities and states nationwide. Our reporters regularly reported on police abuse and closely followed developments of the Black Lives Matter movement to keep racial justice protests atop the headlines. We also covered the economic justice movement and protests that preceded the unexpected rise of Bernie Sanders as a leading presidential candidate. Occupy.com was among the first to report on the price gouging exposed in the drug industry, and we ran featured series exploring under-reported economic subjects like alternative currencies and the importance of a debtors' union to help college graduates get out from under mountains of debt. Documenting new energy movements and policies that are fueling the low-carbon economy and pointing us toward a post-oil future powered by renewables, Occupy.com put special attention on the student-led fossil fuel divestment movement and its global impacts. Looking still more globally, Occupy.com in 2015 had correspondents on the scene in Berlin, London, Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe to cover the ongoing migrant crisis fueled by conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In Spain, our team covered the harmful impacts of austerity policies and the rise of the alternative Podemos party that has shaken up Spanish politics. We had multiple correspondents on the ground in Paris to document, in both video and print, the historic Paris climate treaty, with stories told from both inside the event and outside in the street protests. We covered the rise of Jeremy Corbyn and the new left political movement in the U.K. And Occupy.com covered the global rise of "rebel cities" that are using transformative technology and economic and social policies to foster more functional and responsive democracies.In total, we published an estimated 1,040 articles throughout the year, reaching an audience of approximately 250,000 readers per month. Our metrics show that our articles were read in more than 100 countries, representing well over half the world, because there is a global demand - in English - for the alternative news coverage and analysis we give to events. We had about 30 freelance correspondents writing for us throughout 2015. And last year, Occupy.com sponsored a Town Hall fund raiser in Seattle for another 501(c)(3) non-profit, The Coalition for Open Democracy, where Lawrence Lessig and Maryanne Williamson spoke and discussed the issue of the corrupting influence of money in politics and held a 2-hour series of intimate discussions with audience members after their presentation.

2023 accomplishmentsin its 12th year as a national and global political news site, occupy.coOccupycomom published dozens of articles throughout 2023 touching on many of the systemic and political crises facing not only the united states, but countries and populations worldwide. Through consistent, quality research and reporting, our correspondents were able to tackle topics ranging from the gop's dysfunction in electing their house speaker, to strategies for increasing police accountability, to making the rich pay more in taxes. Articles written for and published on occupy.coOccupycomom addressed a wide range of relevant issues, including: how the race for the bottom line contributed to the Ohio train derailment; an expose of the robber barons in our new gilded age; the global impacts of the new putin-xi alliance; the perils to democracy posed by a second donald trump term; the culture and fear of gun violence that prevails in america; strategies to reign in the power of fox news; exposing the gop's anti-