March 2012
21 posts
“Compound growth forever is impossible; an alternative has to arise in which...”
– David Harvey (via rethinksocialism)
University of Michigan: Student Debt and the For...
occupyumich:
So, you saw the flyers. What’s up? Well, the University of Michigan is changing for the worse—so much so you can see it in almost every part of the campus. We can see it just walking around, where the student body is more affluent and whiter than ever before (in 2000, 18.4% of Michigan students had a family income of $200k or more…in 2010, 27.6%). We can see it in the...
A Violent Weekend Recharges Occupy Wall Street →
existentialistmumbojumbo:
Protests meant to mark the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street have thrust the movement back into the spotlight, mostly due to one particularly violent and ugly confrontation.
Around 73 protesters were arrested on St. Patrick’s Day night after an attempt to re-occupy Zuccotti Park by setting up tents was met with stiff resistance from the NYPD. One arrest drew...
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“I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to...”
– Eugene V. Debs
Occupy UMich: Feminist Ryan Gosling and the Visual... →
occupyumich:
Feminist Ryan Gosling and the Visual Scream stems from our increasing frustration with the politicizing and disciplining of women and their bodies especially as a device to curry political favor and to distract from other issues.
In the past several weeks, it has become increasingly…
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What's the Matter With Europe?
By now, most of the people reading this have heard of the European Crisis, the terrors of Sovereign Debt, and of the measures being taken to keep the European Union whole. However, this has been going on for so long that it may be good for us to overview the crisis, its causes, its effects, and its solutions in a compact form. The European Union’s origins lie far back in the postwar...
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Divided It Falls: A Ruling Class Divided Against...
It is no great secret that the American political system, despite its democratic auspices, is a mechanism for the rule of an elite minority. The past thirty years in particular have seen many brazen examples of this, highlighted by an unprecedented expansion of the gap between rich and poor as social welfare spending was cut to make way for ever greater tax breaks for the wealthy....
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Crime and Profit: US Anti-Immigration Policy
This article, by synthesizing personal observation and statistical information, attempts to understand how U.S. anti-immigrant policies have emerged to produce profit for American corporations by criminalizing undocumented U.S. residents. Though the data used in this article is primarily focused on U.S. immigrants from Latin America, the author recognizes that undocumented people from all over...
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NAFTA and Immigration: Globalizing the Corporate...
Charged comments during recent Republican primaries have reopened a political can of worms – immigration. While both political parties argue about the character and economic effects of immigrants in the United States, they exclude two crucial questions: why is there an influx of immigration and what role has the US played in this influx? Although many policies have shaped...
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Communism 101: Unpacking Capitalist Baggage
It is difficult to question a system to which there is no conceivable alternative. We have grown up in an America without a political left, and so, as we watch our system crumble under the weight of inequality, we don’t know what to do about it. We vote for the ‘other’ people, the ones who didn’t visibly have a hand in getting us to our current situation, or the ones who make the best...
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The rise of the "precariat"?
From socialistworker.org Geoff Bailey and Kyle Brown take up a debate about Occupy and the working class.
AMID A flurry of debates assessing the fallout from the two Occupy port actions in the Bay Area and the upcoming call for a general strike on May 1, an anonymous article posted by “Oakland Commune” aims to put the tactical debates surrounding the port shutdowns into a...
