Class solidarity often shows itself in surprising places. By Susan Rosenthal How do you define class? According to the 2006 General Social Survey, most Americans view society like a giant football, with a small group of rich people at one end, a small group of poor people at the other end, and the majority filling [...]
CLASSIC REPORTS FROM The fracture lines grow deeper (First published June 2005. The republication of this excellent analysis is recommended because of recent events in Latin America. Good journalism is very often timeless in its clarity and impact, and Le Monde Diplomatique, headed by veteran journalist and radical intellectual Ignacio Ramonet, is a constant fount [...]
By Susan Rosenthal ||| First draft: August 25, 2007 A few months back, U.S. President George W. Bush, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón met to plan further integration of their three economies. Thousands of people protest these summit meetings, not because they oppose international cooperation but because they reject [...]
BY VEGANMOM ||| Dateline: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Turkey slaughter conveyor. Note the animals are fully conscious through much of this procedure. Disclosure: This piece fully articulates many of the feelings felt by the editors of this site. < http://veganmom.blogspot.com/2007/11/happy-turkey-day.html> …And lord, bless this meal that we are about to consume, with no thought whatsoever [...]
Are you a Liberal? Do you think you’re “middle class”? Do you swear by individualism? Are you black or gay? Then this article is for you. INTRODUCTION: With this document we inaugurate our series designed to serve as a “Virtual University”—an online curriculum—on social, economic, historical, and political affairs rarely touched by the establishment educational [...]
En noviembre de 2007, durante la cumbre iberoamericana en Santiago de Chile, el rey de España Juan Carlos apuntó el dedo al presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez y le dijo insolentemente, “por qué no te callas? ”, después que Chávez—en honor a la verdad—había llamado al ministro anterior de España, José María Aznar, “un fascista”. Esto [...]
POR JUAN CHINGO | Jueves 15 de noviembre de 2007 Sarkozy, criatura del “patronat”, lanza en ristre contra las victorias del pueblo francés. • Francia: primera prueba de fuerzas • Huelgas de trabajadores y luchas de estudiantes Cuando se está abriendo una dinámica hacia una situación similar a la de la huelga general de estatales [...]
BY SUSAN ROSENTHAL “Medicine for All” —a 1936 mural done by Artists for the People, a WPA-funded project during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s last term (NYC). Despite its fantastic wealth-generating capacity, the U.S. has higher infant death rates and lower life expectancies than many poorer nations. This fact is used to support major reform of an [...]
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