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Laura Flanders is the host of "GRIT TV" the new, news and culture discussion program aired daily on Free Speech TV (Dish Network ch. 9415) and online at the popular blog site Firedoglake.com. Flanders also hosts RadioNation, on Air America Radio, the weekly radio program of the Nation Magazine. She is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics Back from the Politiicans (The Penguin Press, 2007) and the New York Times bestseller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an expose of women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, Fair's radio program. For more information and to contribute video to GRIT TV go to www.grittv.org.
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Saturday, July 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions Sets Back the Clock Pay no attention to what the media says about how undermined Jeff Sessions is. President Donald Trump may bait him publicly via tweet, but in private, at the Department of Justice, Sessions is a man on a mission to roll back civil rights. And that's just what he's doing.
Saturday, July 7, 2018Jeff Sessions Sets Back the Clock Pay no attention to what the media says about how undermined Jeff Sessions is. President Donald Trump may bait him publicly via tweet, but in private, at the Department of Justice, Sessions is a man on a mission to roll back civil rights. And that's just what he's doing.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018
WTF White Women? 2016 was bad. 2018 was worse. While 52 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and Mike Pence in 2016, in 2018, 76 percent of white women voted for Brian Kemp. So white women are either stupid or spoiled. I say spoiled.
Sunday, November 11, 2018WTF White Women? 2016 was bad. 2018 was worse. While 52 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and Mike Pence in 2016, in 2018, 76 percent of white women voted for Brian Kemp. So white women are either stupid or spoiled. I say spoiled.
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
Democracy vs Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice The 2020 presidential race didn't get decided this week, but the choice before us did: more democracy or less of it. That's the decision we are facing, and if the Democrats manage to foul this up, they may not get another chance.
Sunday, February 16, 2020Democracy vs Dictatorship: Don't Let Bloomberg Muddy That Choice The 2020 presidential race didn't get decided this week, but the choice before us did: more democracy or less of it. That's the decision we are facing, and if the Democrats manage to foul this up, they may not get another chance.
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Monday, December 31, 2018
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Face of Rising Fascism The thing is, people spend so much time mocking Trump or waiting for him to be impeached. And the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him. What would happen if he wasn't there tomorrow and Mike Pence came? Would it be better?
Monday, December 31, 2018Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Face of Rising Fascism The thing is, people spend so much time mocking Trump or waiting for him to be impeached. And the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him. What would happen if he wasn't there tomorrow and Mike Pence came? Would it be better?
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Saturday, August 17, 2019
Woodstock Urges Roaming Radical journalist Andrew Kopkind wrote about the Woodstock Peace and Music Fair in August 1969, just days after the event. "When we find out we have to fight for love, all hell will break loose," he wrote. Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New York, I'm pondering what's happened since. What's taken so long?
Saturday, August 17, 2019Woodstock Urges Roaming Radical journalist Andrew Kopkind wrote about the Woodstock Peace and Music Fair in August 1969, just days after the event. "When we find out we have to fight for love, all hell will break loose," he wrote. Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New York, I'm pondering what's happened since. What's taken so long?
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Saturday, October 27, 2018
Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes. Trump. Complicit in killing? Absolutely. This president's closer to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates than any other, and he's stayed that way, not only since the demonstration assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but over almost four years of a Saudi air war that's created what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
Saturday, October 27, 2018Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes. Trump. Complicit in killing? Absolutely. This president's closer to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates than any other, and he's stayed that way, not only since the demonstration assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but over almost four years of a Saudi air war that's created what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide Led by former housing activist Ada Colau, who was elected Mayor in May 2015, Barcelona's government has been in the hands of a movement that had become a political party -- Barcelona en Comú. They won office on a pledge to "develop the city as a commons," meaning a place for people, not a profit center for speculators and extractive corporations.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019In Barcelona, Being a Fearless City Mayor Means Letting the People Decide Led by former housing activist Ada Colau, who was elected Mayor in May 2015, Barcelona's government has been in the hands of a movement that had become a political party -- Barcelona en Comú. They won office on a pledge to "develop the city as a commons," meaning a place for people, not a profit center for speculators and extractive corporations.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Welcome to Commonomics: How to Build Local Economies Strong Enough for Everyone In our new series, YES! Magazine investigates what it will take to strengthen our local economies for the benefit of all.
Friday, October 4, 2013Welcome to Commonomics: How to Build Local Economies Strong Enough for Everyone In our new series, YES! Magazine investigates what it will take to strengthen our local economies for the benefit of all.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon In this interview, activist Dayna Ash breaks down the people's response to Covid-19 and the fight for justice in Lebanon. "Losing hope is a privilege we cannot afford," she says. "We will continue. We will push forward..."
Sunday, March 29, 2020Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon In this interview, activist Dayna Ash breaks down the people's response to Covid-19 and the fight for justice in Lebanon. "Losing hope is a privilege we cannot afford," she says. "We will continue. We will push forward..."
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
The Strange Sticking Power of Rick Santorum A big part of how Obama gained support in states like these was his pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. (Although in office, he quickly jettisoned all that talk and signed more, similar pacts.) Rick Santorum, for all his sins, has the advantage of actually having voted against NAFTA.
Saturday, March 10, 2012The Strange Sticking Power of Rick Santorum A big part of how Obama gained support in states like these was his pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. (Although in office, he quickly jettisoned all that talk and signed more, similar pacts.) Rick Santorum, for all his sins, has the advantage of actually having voted against NAFTA.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
As Trump Moves to Hide Covid-19, We Already Know Which Communities Are Suffering Most There was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their COVID-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it's publicly available, but rather to the Department of Health and Human Services, where it will be stored in a database that is shut to the public.
Friday, July 17, 2020As Trump Moves to Hide Covid-19, We Already Know Which Communities Are Suffering Most There was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their COVID-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it's publicly available, but rather to the Department of Health and Human Services, where it will be stored in a database that is shut to the public.
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Sunday, March 10, 2019
Making American Journalism Great and Different Local papers have taken a hit. There's no debate about that. The same miserable mob that mauled Main Street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country. Pursuing only profits, private hedge funds bought and stripped even long-lived legacy papers, leaving them for dead.
Sunday, March 10, 2019Making American Journalism Great and Different Local papers have taken a hit. There's no debate about that. The same miserable mob that mauled Main Street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country. Pursuing only profits, private hedge funds bought and stripped even long-lived legacy papers, leaving them for dead.
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Monday, November 5, 2018
Hate Speech at Homeland Security Someone, most likely in broad daylight beneath half a dozen surveillance cameras, felt confident enough to write "KILL NIGGERS" in capital letters on what has got to be one of the most highly policed blocks in the world. Who? Will we ever know?
Monday, November 5, 2018Hate Speech at Homeland Security Someone, most likely in broad daylight beneath half a dozen surveillance cameras, felt confident enough to write "KILL NIGGERS" in capital letters on what has got to be one of the most highly policed blocks in the world. Who? Will we ever know?
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Healthcare Isn't Big Business Or Big Philanthropy! -- Ben Palmquist and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler US healthcare is still in crisis. Over 30 million Americans remain uninsured, and even more are sickened by sky-high insurance costs. This January Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon announced that they were banding together to form a new healthcare... entity.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018Healthcare Isn't Big Business Or Big Philanthropy! -- Ben Palmquist and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler US healthcare is still in crisis. Over 30 million Americans remain uninsured, and even more are sickened by sky-high insurance costs. This January Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon announced that they were banding together to form a new healthcare... entity.
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Friday, January 29, 2021
Time to Take the Mittens Off! For those who have been paying attention to something else, in the days after the Biden/Harris inauguration, a picture of Vermont's Senator Sanders siting masked and in mittens went viral.
Friday, January 29, 2021Time to Take the Mittens Off! For those who have been paying attention to something else, in the days after the Biden/Harris inauguration, a picture of Vermont's Senator Sanders siting masked and in mittens went viral.
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for public health and yet, the majority of white voters support exactly those policies.
Thursday, July 2, 2020Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been catastrophic for public health and yet, the majority of white voters support exactly those policies.
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Sunday, August 2, 2020
Take On the Tech Mob Now or Perish Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, while Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook only added wealth.
Sunday, August 2, 2020Take On the Tech Mob Now or Perish Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, while Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook only added wealth.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival Transformative justice applies the principles of mutual aid to justice. It seeks to resolve violence for the long term at the peer-to-peer, grassroots level by looking for resolution, not punishment, and relying on community, not the system.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival Transformative justice applies the principles of mutual aid to justice. It seeks to resolve violence for the long term at the peer-to-peer, grassroots level by looking for resolution, not punishment, and relying on community, not the system.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That's Rich. They call it Giving Tuesday, and we've just marked the seventh annual this week. It's supposed to kick off a season of charitable giving, but the way some corporate robber barons use it for public relations is enough to turn your stomach.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That's Rich. They call it Giving Tuesday, and we've just marked the seventh annual this week. It's supposed to kick off a season of charitable giving, but the way some corporate robber barons use it for public relations is enough to turn your stomach.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Paradigms Take Years to Shift Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law. Minneapolis City Council has voted with a veto-proof majority to replace law enforcement with a "transformative new model of public safety."
Wednesday, June 10, 2020Paradigms Take Years to Shift Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law. Minneapolis City Council has voted with a veto-proof majority to replace law enforcement with a "transformative new model of public safety."
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Covid-19 Demands A National Reckoning The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state?
Wednesday, May 6, 2020Covid-19 Demands A National Reckoning The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately black and working class. What explains our failure to build a more caring state?
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Friday, May 25, 2018
After Brexit, Blexit: Putting Your Money Where Your Life Is Brexit's what the British public voted to do when they felt the European Union wasn't serving their best interests. Blexit's what some Black residents of the Twin Cities have decided to do to free themselves from the city's white dominated financial institutions.
Friday, May 25, 2018After Brexit, Blexit: Putting Your Money Where Your Life Is Brexit's what the British public voted to do when they felt the European Union wasn't serving their best interests. Blexit's what some Black residents of the Twin Cities have decided to do to free themselves from the city's white dominated financial institutions.
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Life or Death for the FCC Reverse net neutrality? Open the floodgates to more media monopoly? Chairman Pai, a former staffer to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has in mind to accomplish all that and more. He leads the commission's Republican majority in lockstep, and they've already proposed radical reductions to Lifeline, the meager subsidy that helps low income people connect to doctors, nurses, and public assistance.
Monday, May 21, 2018Life or Death for the FCC Reverse net neutrality? Open the floodgates to more media monopoly? Chairman Pai, a former staffer to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has in mind to accomplish all that and more. He leads the commission's Republican majority in lockstep, and they've already proposed radical reductions to Lifeline, the meager subsidy that helps low income people connect to doctors, nurses, and public assistance.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy The most significant aspect of de Blasio's win may be the route he took to power. Taking office with him this January will be a public advocate who generally shares his views and a dozen new progressive city council members -- all beneficiaries of a long-term strategy by local advocates of economic justice to reduce local legislators' dependence on establishment-party patronage and big corporate donors.
Sunday, November 10, 2013Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy The most significant aspect of de Blasio's win may be the route he took to power. Taking office with him this January will be a public advocate who generally shares his views and a dozen new progressive city council members -- all beneficiaries of a long-term strategy by local advocates of economic justice to reduce local legislators' dependence on establishment-party patronage and big corporate donors.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Drone Strikes? What's To Feel Bad About? Between 282 and 535 civilians, including 60 minors, have been credibly reported as killed as a result of drone strikes since US President Barack Obama took office. Most damning, the Bureau reported that at least 50 civilians have been killed in follow-up strikes after they rushed to help the wounded. More than 20 other civilians were killed in strikes on funerals.
Friday, March 2, 2012Drone Strikes? What's To Feel Bad About? Between 282 and 535 civilians, including 60 minors, have been credibly reported as killed as a result of drone strikes since US President Barack Obama took office. Most damning, the Bureau reported that at least 50 civilians have been killed in follow-up strikes after they rushed to help the wounded. More than 20 other civilians were killed in strikes on funerals.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Ominous Silence on the Anniversary of the ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act turned 28 this July. The ADA was signed into law on July 26th, 1990 by the first President Bush. It prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of public life.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018Ominous Silence on the Anniversary of the ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act turned 28 this July. The ADA was signed into law on July 26th, 1990 by the first President Bush. It prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of public life.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours. New York City faces the serious challenges of any major city, specifically when it comes to inequality and climate risks. But with democratic majorities at both the city and state level in government, addressing those challenges is more possible now than it's been in decades.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours. New York City faces the serious challenges of any major city, specifically when it comes to inequality and climate risks. But with democratic majorities at both the city and state level in government, addressing those challenges is more possible now than it's been in decades.
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
Collusion in Plain Sight The media has no reason to worry. There's plenty of collusion in plain sight, and it wouldn't take a 22-month inquiry to find Trump conspiring with enemies of US democracy, if only the US media spent a fraction of the time they've spent covering Russia-gate looking at Trump's relationship with killer corporations and hate groups.
Saturday, March 30, 2019Collusion in Plain Sight The media has no reason to worry. There's plenty of collusion in plain sight, and it wouldn't take a 22-month inquiry to find Trump conspiring with enemies of US democracy, if only the US media spent a fraction of the time they've spent covering Russia-gate looking at Trump's relationship with killer corporations and hate groups.
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Saturday, December 8, 2018
HUD Official to Move Into Public Housing? The federal housing official responsible for the New York City region says she plans to move into public housing to spotlight inhumane conditions, but if she really wanted to spotlight inhumanity in housing, she'd move big money out of precious city housing stock.
Saturday, December 8, 2018HUD Official to Move Into Public Housing? The federal housing official responsible for the New York City region says she plans to move into public housing to spotlight inhumane conditions, but if she really wanted to spotlight inhumanity in housing, she'd move big money out of precious city housing stock.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Laissez Faire Capitalism -- That Is Anything But "Laissez faire" capitalists love to argue that the market itself is magic. You don't need government or regulation to rein in bad companies -- consumers will do it. The principle involved is called "reputation." It's amazing how vigorously, then, some governments will get involved to defend bad companies from shame.
Thursday, January 7, 2016Laissez Faire Capitalism -- That Is Anything But "Laissez faire" capitalists love to argue that the market itself is magic. You don't need government or regulation to rein in bad companies -- consumers will do it. The principle involved is called "reputation." It's amazing how vigorously, then, some governments will get involved to defend bad companies from shame.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Wake Up, Liberals -- Either We Hang Together or We Fall Apart There's one thing people on the left need to get deadly serious about under the Trump administration, either we hang together or we hang apart. Donald Trump and his supporters are deadly serious about harassing, intimidating, villifying and removing all those they consider subversive. And their immigration program is just a start.
Sunday, March 19, 2017Wake Up, Liberals -- Either We Hang Together or We Fall Apart There's one thing people on the left need to get deadly serious about under the Trump administration, either we hang together or we hang apart. Donald Trump and his supporters are deadly serious about harassing, intimidating, villifying and removing all those they consider subversive. And their immigration program is just a start.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
After Maria: Puerto Rican Self-Determination What's in store for Puerto Rico's future? Some people are pushing to privatize everything from education to the power grid. In the massive gaps left by our official response, individuals, communities, and organizations are stepping in.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018After Maria: Puerto Rican Self-Determination What's in store for Puerto Rico's future? Some people are pushing to privatize everything from education to the power grid. In the massive gaps left by our official response, individuals, communities, and organizations are stepping in.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
If the President had HIV, He Could be in Prison Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If the Donald was a poor man, poorly defended and in poor health, there's a good chance he'd be facing criminal charges.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020If the President had HIV, He Could be in Prison Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If the Donald was a poor man, poorly defended and in poor health, there's a good chance he'd be facing criminal charges.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook? From Paine to Wells, it has always been media at the margins -- not the center -- that has brought critical issues to a boil so that bigger, "recognized" media could inhale the steam. American democracy has not advanced thanks to the mainstream media, but rather thanks to reporters on a mission and with the means to tell the uncomfortable, unfamiliar, uncommon truth.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018What if Ida B. Wells Depended on Facebook? From Paine to Wells, it has always been media at the margins -- not the center -- that has brought critical issues to a boil so that bigger, "recognized" media could inhale the steam. American democracy has not advanced thanks to the mainstream media, but rather thanks to reporters on a mission and with the means to tell the uncomfortable, unfamiliar, uncommon truth.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Throwing Shade, Not Light, on Youth Voting The seasonal downpour is especially important this year because, for the first time, 18-35-year-old "millennials" -- and their even younger counterparts, "generation z" -- will be America's single largest voting block with power to swing the result if they actually turn out to cast a ballot. The perennial question is, will they?
Tuesday, June 5, 2018Throwing Shade, Not Light, on Youth Voting The seasonal downpour is especially important this year because, for the first time, 18-35-year-old "millennials" -- and their even younger counterparts, "generation z" -- will be America's single largest voting block with power to swing the result if they actually turn out to cast a ballot. The perennial question is, will they?
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Saturday, June 23, 2018
National Suicide Point? Colonizers cut down fruit trees and olive groves and uprooted relationships to break apart autonomous social networks. Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.
Saturday, June 23, 2018National Suicide Point? Colonizers cut down fruit trees and olive groves and uprooted relationships to break apart autonomous social networks. Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Poor Americans Are Drowning: Where Are the Lifeboats? For all the talk of Wall Street reform, and new consumer protections, and talk of alternative energy policy, the fact remains that for most people, America is a sinking ship. And minority communities are the first to be thrown over the side.
Friday, June 4, 2010Poor Americans Are Drowning: Where Are the Lifeboats? For all the talk of Wall Street reform, and new consumer protections, and talk of alternative energy policy, the fact remains that for most people, America is a sinking ship. And minority communities are the first to be thrown over the side.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point? Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true and seem to suggest, more than ever, that capitalism is not only a disservice to the people, but it's also unsuccessful.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point? Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true and seem to suggest, more than ever, that capitalism is not only a disservice to the people, but it's also unsuccessful.
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Saturday, May 14, 2016
Who Needs Panama When You Have the Home State of Joe Biden? Never discount the deference in our media for those with money and influence, or the disdain they have for reporting that's done mostly elsewhere. But the most important part of the answer is: Americans don't need Fonseca. Plenty of US law firms manage offshore assets right here. They don't need to go to Panama because they can find those firms in the US.
Saturday, May 14, 2016Who Needs Panama When You Have the Home State of Joe Biden? Never discount the deference in our media for those with money and influence, or the disdain they have for reporting that's done mostly elsewhere. But the most important part of the answer is: Americans don't need Fonseca. Plenty of US law firms manage offshore assets right here. They don't need to go to Panama because they can find those firms in the US.
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Who Cares if Hillary is Warm? I Care About Her Wars When it comes to Clinton, it's not the warmth, it's the wars I'm worried about. I don't think she's ever seen a bombing mission she didn't approve, going back to the 1990s, when the whole insidious "humanitarian" war idea took root with NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. It was the wars on Yugoslavia that prepared the political ground for intervention in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and every one of those has led to a bloodbath.
Thursday, January 28, 2016Who Cares if Hillary is Warm? I Care About Her Wars When it comes to Clinton, it's not the warmth, it's the wars I'm worried about. I don't think she's ever seen a bombing mission she didn't approve, going back to the 1990s, when the whole insidious "humanitarian" war idea took root with NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. It was the wars on Yugoslavia that prepared the political ground for intervention in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and every one of those has led to a bloodbath.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects Inside the dark Victorian mansion of the Bradley Foundation in benighted Milwaukee, there must be smiles all around. The same ideologically-driven outfit that paid for the task force that devised Thompson's welfare plan is now backing Walker's drive to criminalize collective bargaining.
Sunday, February 27, 2011Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects Inside the dark Victorian mansion of the Bradley Foundation in benighted Milwaukee, there must be smiles all around. The same ideologically-driven outfit that paid for the task force that devised Thompson's welfare plan is now backing Walker's drive to criminalize collective bargaining.
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
In Indian Country, It's Not the Weather, It's the Racism That's Leaving Thousands in the Dark If deaths from lack of care, cold, and a lack of access to electricity are deemed disasters in Texas, how do we explain the fact that of the 55,000 homes in the Navajo Nation, about 15,000 don't have electricity now, or at any time?
Thursday, February 25, 2021In Indian Country, It's Not the Weather, It's the Racism That's Leaving Thousands in the Dark If deaths from lack of care, cold, and a lack of access to electricity are deemed disasters in Texas, how do we explain the fact that of the 55,000 homes in the Navajo Nation, about 15,000 don't have electricity now, or at any time?
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Time For Socialist History Month? his primary campaign is not going to be about where Democrats stand on things like abortion and marriage and voting rights, but rather on where they stand on property rights and public ownership and workplace democracy and taxes. Much as they're out of practice, journalists are going to have to grapple with economics.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019Time For Socialist History Month? his primary campaign is not going to be about where Democrats stand on things like abortion and marriage and voting rights, but rather on where they stand on property rights and public ownership and workplace democracy and taxes. Much as they're out of practice, journalists are going to have to grapple with economics.
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Sunday, May 1, 2016
Lucy Parsons: The Anarchist and Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day Lucy Parsons was the only woman of color, and one of only two women delegates -- the other being Mother Jones -- among the 200 men at the founding convention of the IWW, the Militant Industrial Workers of the World. There, she was the only woman to give a speech. She called women the "slaves of slaves" and urged the IWW to fight for equality and charge underpaid women a lower rate for union fees.
Sunday, May 1, 2016Lucy Parsons: The Anarchist and Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day Lucy Parsons was the only woman of color, and one of only two women delegates -- the other being Mother Jones -- among the 200 men at the founding convention of the IWW, the Militant Industrial Workers of the World. There, she was the only woman to give a speech. She called women the "slaves of slaves" and urged the IWW to fight for equality and charge underpaid women a lower rate for union fees.
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Friday, April 8, 2016
The Primaries Are Over: Don't Give In To Panic And Mute a successful candidate is one like Ellison, the guy who rallies people to believe that the future is about more than fear -- and change is possible, in their lives, in their families, in their country. And they can be a part of it. Bernie Sanders has rallied a lot people -- just that way -- most especially young voters. He's received 80-plus percent of the youth vote in several states.
Friday, April 8, 2016The Primaries Are Over: Don't Give In To Panic And Mute a successful candidate is one like Ellison, the guy who rallies people to believe that the future is about more than fear -- and change is possible, in their lives, in their families, in their country. And they can be a part of it. Bernie Sanders has rallied a lot people -- just that way -- most especially young voters. He's received 80-plus percent of the youth vote in several states.
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
The Media's Quadrennial Eclipse It's the quadrennial eclipse. Every election season, our picture of power momentarily opens up to include something resembling a society before it snaps back to narrow in on a few so-called "power brokers" in Washington and on Wall Street.
Thursday, November 19, 2020The Media's Quadrennial Eclipse It's the quadrennial eclipse. Every election season, our picture of power momentarily opens up to include something resembling a society before it snaps back to narrow in on a few so-called "power brokers" in Washington and on Wall Street.
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Friday, March 4, 2016
Dark Money: What Might the Money Media Cover If They Weren't Covering Trump? Is today's election auction normal or inevitable? Neither. A handful of Supreme Court decisions, decided by a single vote unloosed the cash-flow. It's happened mostly over the last 10 years. As the Brennan Center reported this January, just one justice shifting opinion could speedily restore common sense limits on big spending.
Friday, March 4, 2016Dark Money: What Might the Money Media Cover If They Weren't Covering Trump? Is today's election auction normal or inevitable? Neither. A handful of Supreme Court decisions, decided by a single vote unloosed the cash-flow. It's happened mostly over the last 10 years. As the Brennan Center reported this January, just one justice shifting opinion could speedily restore common sense limits on big spending.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The supreme court's free pass on sexism for Walmart The world's biggest boss, supported by companies as diverse as Altria, Bank of America, Microsoft and General Electric and backed up by the godfather of big business (the US Chamber of Commerce) has persuaded the US supreme court that thousands of women workers can't possibly share enough of an interest to constitute a class?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011The supreme court's free pass on sexism for Walmart The world's biggest boss, supported by companies as diverse as Altria, Bank of America, Microsoft and General Electric and backed up by the godfather of big business (the US Chamber of Commerce) has persuaded the US supreme court that thousands of women workers can't possibly share enough of an interest to constitute a class?
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
A Great National Sick-Out -- It's Past Time After months of attempting to grab legislators' attention, the teachers called in sick, en masse earlier this year, causing almost all city schools to close, and while they withdrew their labor, they flooded the social media with images of just what they were so sick of: Broken toilet seats in the student's bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings, moldy food.
Thursday, March 17, 2016A Great National Sick-Out -- It's Past Time After months of attempting to grab legislators' attention, the teachers called in sick, en masse earlier this year, causing almost all city schools to close, and while they withdrew their labor, they flooded the social media with images of just what they were so sick of: Broken toilet seats in the student's bathrooms, mushrooms on their classroom walls, leaking ceilings, moldy food.
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Money Media Cover Change-Makers Most When They're Dead When media cover community organizing at all, profit-driven media tend to focus only on the troublemakers -- the sit-ins, shutdowns and picket lines. But while activism is often used to extract concessions from government, organizers like Grace Lee Boggs don't just make trouble -- they make change.
Thursday, November 12, 2015Money Media Cover Change-Makers Most When They're Dead When media cover community organizing at all, profit-driven media tend to focus only on the troublemakers -- the sit-ins, shutdowns and picket lines. But while activism is often used to extract concessions from government, organizers like Grace Lee Boggs don't just make trouble -- they make change.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree Massey Energy killed 29 miners, Standard & Poor upgraded their stock from "hold" to "buy," so Shrub got it right, the answer to anything bad is "go shopping."
Thursday, April 22, 2010The F Word: Coal Company Shopping Spree Massey Energy killed 29 miners, Standard & Poor upgraded their stock from "hold" to "buy," so Shrub got it right, the answer to anything bad is "go shopping."
