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Jon Liss: Progressiveness and its Discontents
July 17, 2010Lately, the infamous Tea Party has taken over the mass media by storm. Despite this recent mobilization against long-awaited “liberal” reforms, we can’t help but remember how grassroots movements organized coalitions to paint red states blue and elect Barack Obama. Is it possible to remobilize progressive discontent and organize a party that crosses race, class, and gender lines to get progressive politicians elected?Jon Liss, The Rink and Harvey Pekar
July 16, 2010Lately, the infamous Tea Party has taken the mass media by storm. Despite this recent mobilization against long-awaited “liberal” reforms, we can’t help but remember how grassroots movements organized coalitions to paint red states blue and elect Barack Obama. Is it possible to remobilize progressive discontent and organize a party that crosses race, class, and labor lines to get progressive politicians elected?Bill Fletcher, Jr.: Organize the Unemployed
July 9, 2010Workers are under assault, says Bill Fletcher, Jr., and the labor movement needs to fight back. One of the best ways to do this, he suggests, is for labor to start organizing the unemployed as well as supporting their membership.BP Exploiting Workers in the Gulf
July 9, 2010Hundreds of workers in the Gulf Coast cleaning up BP’s oil disaster have reported symptoms of nausea, vomiting, nose bleeds, and headaches, but those “almost all have been heat related,” according to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab.Bill Fletcher Jr., BP Exploiting Workers, and Cropsey
July 8, 2010Workers are under assault, says Bill Fletcher, Jr., and the labor movement needs to fight back. One of the best ways to do this, he suggests, is for labor to start organizing the unemployed as well as supporting their membership.The F Word: The Year of Which Women Again?
July 8, 2010So it's “the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some. All about money media are all about the women of the GOP. It's news, right, when Republican women are running for office and winning primaries, it seems, because, well it's supposed to irk feminists and progressives, and it's new.Anyone But Me, South Africa's Promised Land, and Courtney Young
July 2, 2010Anyone But Me is a hit teen show, viewed over 4.5 million times in its first two seasons. That's pretty impressive for a show that is only available on the Web. The drama, which was financed for two seasons by a private investor, was created by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward to do something different, and with few models for a successful Web TV show to follow, they have had to chart their own course.Courtney Young: BP Threatens Louisiana Culture
July 2, 2010We may now have reached a period of national and global fatigue over the havoc wreaked by the spill. But as someone from Louisiana, I can attest that the disaster is very much pulsating through the daily lives of millions of people in the area. Though Louisiana is not the only place affected, it was certainly one of the most hardest hit by the disaster. Even after the hole is plugged, the damage done will last for decades, generations.The Jobs of Summer: Youth Unemployment
June 18, 2010Students graduating or looking for summer employment in 2010 are facing the worst labor market in at least a generation, according to Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Young people are often the last hired and the first fired, and state budget crises have seen cuts to programs from MetroCards for students in New York to after-school programs and academic counseling.Greg Grandin, Youth Unemployment, and Obama's Power
June 17, 2010Latin America is ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting resource-extracting corporations, says NYU professor Greg Grandin. While Obama makes nice with BP CEO Tony Hayward (and Glenn Beck claims that Obama is unfair to Hayward because he's white), Grandin notes, social movements across South and Central America have been fighting the companies that are after their resources for a while now--and dealing with the repercussions; often violent death squads, as well.