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The bottom line for Chicago teachers?
| Lois Weiner September 6, 2012 |
As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) holds fast to its strike deadline of Sept. 10, negotiations continue. It's always risky to trust reports in the mass media, especially the virulently anti-teachers union media that we have today, about what's happening in negotiations.
Factcheck.org on the GOP and Abortion
| Steve Shalom August 31, 2012 |
Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, often plays a useful role in exposing lies by political candidates. Sometimes, however, its factchecking is rather tendentious. Its coverage of the abortion stance of the 2012 Republican Party platform is a case in point.
Beyond November: Thoughts on politics, social movements, and the 2012 elections
| Michael Hirsch & Jason Schulman August 31, 2012 |
[This article first appeared in the September issue of Jacobin.]
Educating welfare mothers
| Betty Reid Mandell August 30, 2012 |
[This is an expanded version of a letter sent to the New York Times and not printed.]
The Neoliberal Assault on Disability Rights
| December 5, 2012 |
A Public Forum
The Neoliberal Assault on Disability Rights
Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:00pm
New York University
Room 803, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Manhattan
sponsored by New Politics, Radical Film and Lecture Series(RFLS),
and Campaign for peace and Democracy (CPD)
Articles based on the talks:
The education wars, part 2: Giving support to Chicago and Colombia's teachers
| Lois Weiner August 23, 2012 |
I've been asked by readers how they can show their support to teacher unionists in Chicago and Colombia, whose struggles I describe in my recent NP post. One way is to contribute to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Solidarity Fund. The billionaires are pouring big bucks into defeating this movement and union dues alone won't be able to cover the union's costs in trying to win this battle to protect public education.
Reply to Balderston: Longview Contract Was Not a Victory
| Jack Gerson August 8, 2012 |
[Reply to Bill Balderston's article, "Occupy Oakland and the Labor Movement."]
I am going to focus my remarks on section 2 of Bill Balderston's article, which he subtitled "The Battle of Longview". Bill and I have very different views of the outcome of this battle, and what that outcome is likely to mean.
The Lives of Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout, and Eliot Rosewater by Way of Kurt Vonnegut
| by Michael Wreszin | Summer 2012 |
Charles J. Shield’s biography offers a detailed life of the writer, his strengths and weaknesses, both as an author and a person. The major thrust of the Shields biography is to present Kurt Vonnegut as two different people, the writer and the private person. A nephew told the biographer:
U.S. Economic Imperialism and Resistance from the Global South: A Prelude to OWS
| by Francis Shor | Summer 2012 |
It is generally agreed that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a response to decades of economic inequality in the United States. However, to focus only on the national dynamics of U.S. capitalism is to neglect the global role of U.S. economic imperialism since the 1970s and the resistance that developed in the global South to specific instances of that economic imperialism. This paper will consider how imperialist policies promoted by U.S. sponsored agencies and activities engaged in by U.S. corporations’ elicited acts of resistance.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road for the Indefinite Future: An Interview with Jefferson Cowie
| by Ben Holtzman and Craig Hughes | Summer 2012 |
Jefferson Cowie is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University and a leading scholar of labor and class in the United States.