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The art of anger: how underground comics are inspiring the Occupy movement Posters and graphics for the Occupy movement draw their inspiration from vintage socialist art and present-day comic books

"You can't sustain a democracy in an oligarchic state. The writers on Athenian democracy understood that 2000 years ago," says Chris Hedges, whose new book The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress explores the problems of a crumbling empire, inside and out. Chris joins Laura in studio for a conversation about the death of Bin Laden and the continuing concern over terrorism, the end of empathy in the U.S., and what avenues are left for progressives to fight back.  "The elites are not going to help us," he warns, "We're going to have to help ourselves."

October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. Read more.

The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don't know how to handle victory. This might seem an odd thing to say because of a lot of us haven't been feeling particularly victorious of late. Most anarchists today feel the global justice movement was kind of a blip: inspiring, certainly, while it lasted, but not a movement that succeeded either in putting down lasting organizational roots or transforming the contours of power in the world. The anti-war movement was even more frustrating, since anarchists and anarchist tactics were largely marginalized. The war will end, of course, but that's just because wars always do. No one is feeling they contributed much to it.

@snkindia's exhibition design for the ongoing "India & the World" at the CSMVS, Mumbai is a subtle nod to meticulously designed transition spaces that aid the important unfolding of distinct small stories in the larger collective narrative of India's history in relation to the world. Read on to know more!

Produce.Workshop applies a traditional tailoring technique called 'darting' to retail interior in Singapore; adjudged as the INSIDE World Interior of the Year 2017! Check it out here…