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Union Organizing: New Strategies & Tactics
Bill Fletcher
The number of U.S. workers in unions is the lowest of any industrialized country. In the 1950s more than 35% of workers belonged to unions. Today that figure has dropped to 14%. The AFL-CIO is making efforts to reverse that decline.
Media and the Contract with America
Laura Flanders
George Bush once described Ronald Reagan’s fiscal agenda as “voodoo economics.” You’ll recall that Reaganomics was a great success story. The U.S. in the 1980s went from the world’s #1 creditor nation to the world’s #1 debtor. There were massive budget deficits. Remember the famous “trickle-down” theory? It never happened. It was a flood up […]
Haiti: U.S. Intervention and the Struggle for Democracy
Paul Farmer
The Caribbean nation of Haiti was once one of the richest countries in the world. Today, it ranks among the poorest. It was first colonized by the Spanish whose main contribution was to wipe out the indigenous population. In 1697, the French took over. They brought in half a million African slaves to work the sugar, coffee and cotton […]
American Imperialism in the Middle East
Richard Falk
Just a few years ago to use the word imperialism to describe the U.S. would have automatically branded you as a member of the fringe left. Now the term is openly embraced. The New York Times Magazine lead said it all: “American Imperialism: Get Used to It.” The pundits assure us, we’re different from previous […]
Public Relations: Corporate Spin & Propaganda
Stuart Ewen
Current events are routinely packaged by spin doctors and image consultants. The U.S. has the largest public relations industry in the world. It is a major societal force in influencing and shaping public opinion. The number of PR workers far exceeds that of journalists. Professional spinmeisters churn out stories that are favorable to the corporations […]
Zapata’s Disciple
Martin Espada
What is the relationship between poetry and politics? Martin Espada makes the connection. He says, Progressive politics must be imagined first, and poetry is a great way to do it. Oppressive social conditions, before they can be changed, must be named and condemned in words that persuade by stirring the emotions and awakening the senses. […]
Israel’s War on Gaza
Noura Erakat
Interview by David Barsamian.
The Growth of the National Security State
Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Falk
Daniel Ellsberg and Richard Falk speak at the Institute of Media Analysis conference. Recorded at Harvard.
Nickel & Dimed: Women, Welfare & Work
Barbara Ehrenreich
The “reform” of welfare is an historic shift in public policy. One of the central linchpins of the New Deal has been undone. Millions, mostly women and many of them with children, have been thrown off the welfare rolls. Many have landed in dead end low wage jobs. Their quiet lives of desperation are not […]
The End of Caring
Barbara Ehrenreich
The politics of the Clinton-Gingrich era have rewritten the social contract and have shredded portions of the safety net. The poor and needy are lectured about responsibility and character. The rich and powerful, with their subsidies, tax breaks and easy access to all branches and agencies of government, are doing quite well. The gap between […]
A Progressive Vision for Social Change
Barbara Ehrenreich
Political and economic trends point increasingly to the growth not of democracy but plutocracy, a system by and for the rich. The upper crust benefits at the expense of the many. And it’s not about Democrats or Republicans. They both know and play the game. Most people are aware of what’s going on. A recent […]
Militias & the Shift to the Right
Barbara Ehrenreich
Recorded at the Z Media Institute’s annual gathering, this is Ehrenreich at her incisive best. She spoke on the heels of the Oklahoma City bombing. She points out that if that had been carried out by the Black Panthers or the Weathermen twenty years ago, “We wouldn’t be meeting here.” She traces the origins of […]

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