Helen Hickey

So the streets around my Upper East apartment didn’t turn red Friday night, and Saturday I spotted just two ‘KONY 2012’ posters; one locally and one in the Meatpacking district. I don’t know what I expected, maybe not Kony’s blood-coloured face emblazoned on digital billboards overlooking Times Square, but definitely more posters, stickers and wall murals. NYC's 'Cover the Night' saw a few KONY 2012 posters appear on the streets like the one below but unfortunately not the bl

Back? Some say it never left, but simply went underground after November’s mass evictions to regroup, reenergize and emerge into the warm spring sunshine after months of general assemblies and strategy-making. But its tracks have been halted; its wings barely unfurled. Graphic details of the violent scenes in Zuccotti Park that erupted on the six month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street peppered conversations at a OWS fundraiser I attended in lower Manhattan’s Yippie Cafe last

Memorials were held across the country last week to mark the 44th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, ironically set against a backdrop of grave racial tensions over the killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. The 17-year-old was killed on a rainy Sunday night in late February as he walked home from his local store in Sanford, Florida having bought a packet of Skittles and an iced tea. He was wearing a hooded jacket and “looked suspicious”