Monthly Archives: August 2012 »
Get a Job! Observations on Unemployment
“Get a job!”….There’s no more common insult hurled at political protestors by hostile passersby. Never mind for the moment that those words were just a way to ignore what the Occupy movement is protesting.
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In Montreal’s Streets, the Movement Continues
If there was any confusion over whether the suspension of strikes at most schools signalled an end to the broader social movement the strike generated, it was put to bed with an emphatic bang
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Mark Vorphal: Workers Must Take Control
Many of today’s social expectations and political outlooks of the Labor Movement, and workers in general, were formed in the post World War II economic expansion. While the economy was expanding and there were
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Union of Radical Political Economists Meets Occupy
It was about a five hour drive from Boston to the remote campsite in High Falls, New York that played host to this year’s summer conference of the Union for Radical Political Economy (URPE).
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Richard Seymour: Assange, Asylum Seeker
Allow me to place my cards on the table right away. I believe very firmly that the US is out to indict Assange. I believe this on the basis of attempts by US prosecutors
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People Challenge Banks for Homes in Chicago
This article originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence, and was posted over at Occupy.com. “Where’s the house?” Trisha James asked, leaning forward eagerly. She couldn’t contain her urgency; living each day house-to-house in Chicago’s poorest
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Howard Zinn: Life and Legacy
Although Howard Zinn died over two years ago at the age of eighty-seven, his legacy lives on through popular education initiatives and struggles for social justice. Howard Zinn was a pioneer in combining the
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Artists and the Boston Housing Crisis
This post originally appeared over at Open Media Boston. There have been a couple of related alarums sounded in the Boston press over the last few weeks. The first is that our fair city
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