A huge number of issue based struggles have sprung up in recent years, building new alliances and activists. What the Occupy Wall Street has done is to build this large space in which all these movements can come together, with new energy, new methods and with new creativity. This is the excitement of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. It not only has the legacy of the 60's but also the owes its many of form and methods to Tahrir Square and the movements in the Arab world.

The Occupy Wall Street has changed the discourse in the US, bringing out the exclusions of 99% of the people and the total inequality that now prevails. It has brought in different kinds of movements and created a huge oppositional space. The challenge in the days ahead is how to bring together all these elements in a coherent way without losing the vitality of the movement.

Noam Chomsky Speaks to Occupy Boston. If we want a chance at a decent future, the movement here and around the world must grow.

D. Raghunandan of the All India Peoples' Science Network argues for an independent review of nuclear safety measures and audit said to be concluded by the Atomic Energy establishment of the Indian government. Protestors in Kudankulam and elsewhere are unwilling to trust the government's claims of safety of the nuclear reactors, because there is a large credibility gap. This can only be breached if an effort is made to bestow autonomy to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and safety concerns after the Fukushima incident over nuclear energy are sufficiently allayed through independent review of the existing programme.

Far from Haryana, where industrial unrest at the Maruti Suzuki factory has been in the limelight, is an ongoing protest at the factory of another automobile giant.