Lita Kurth: Occupy Faith: the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland
Occupy Faith: the Interfaith Tent at Occupy Oakland Hate crimes? Robbery? Violence against police? If you Google “Occupy Oakland,” you might miss another deeper story, the story of Occupy Faith, the...
View ArticleAmanda Armstrong: Occupy Education: Days 3 and 4 of the 99-Mile March
This multi-day action brought students from different sectors of education together in a way I haven't experienced before. I hope the bonds forged on the march will enable us to continue to build more...
View ArticleRae Abileah: Young Jewish Activist to AIPAC: Stop Silencing Dissent and...
Yesterday the AIPAC Policy Conference held a panel discussion called “The Struggle to Secure Israel on Campus” that featured Wayne Firestone, CEO of Hillel, Roz Rothstein, CEO of Stand With Us, and...
View ArticleMiki Kashtan: Leadership, Empowerment, and Interdependence
For some years now, I've been learning through ongoing experimentation what collaborative leadership means. It's not been easy.
View ArticleAmanda Armstrong: Occupy the Farm and the Conditions of Academic Freedom
For two weeks now, a group of food justice activists, University of California students, Albany residents, and occupy movement stalwarts have been farming and living continuously on a couple acres of...
View ArticleTed Morgan: Occupy’s National Gathering: Seize the Moment!
Outside of a few attention-grabbing events like the May Day or NATO protests in Chicago, the nation’s mainstream media have all but consigned the Occupy movement to the trash bin of yesterday’s news....
View ArticleRae Abileah: I Heart Hamas?!
On a humid Saturday afternoon in Manhattan last weekend, I found myself going to see a show with a title that would have driven me away not so long ago: “I Heart Hamas”. The one-woman show “I Heart...
View ArticleLita Kurth: “Work is slow. Send the CEO home”: an Unhappy Labor Day
Professionals, ask yourself, when is the last time you heard these words? “Work is slow today. So the CEO has to go home.” (and by the way, his pay will be cut down to the precise hours worked). And...
View ArticleLita Kurth: Doing the Right Thing: From Tolstoy to Minimum Wage
Recently two seemingly unrelated events came together: I volunteered for Measure D to raise the minimum wage in San Jose to ten dollars an hour, and I watched another episode of the BBC’s excellent...
View ArticleRick Staggenborg: Austerity or Debt: A False Choice
By March 1, Congress will have had to face the budget cuts mandated by the failure of the Simpson-Bowles commission to come up with a plan of deficit reduction that would satisfy both Republican and...
View ArticleIra Chernus: Political Dreaming in the Twenty-First Century
We don't have to wait for some distant future to see our dreams realized. The essence of the nonviolent action that Dr. King preached is to pierce the lies and distortions in the here and now by acting...
View ArticleWarren Blumenfeld: …Then I Am a Proud Socialist!
For decades, Right-wing individuals and groups have thrown the term "socialist" in the face of their opponents as a means of discrediting their character, political ideas, policies and stances and...
View ArticleWarren Blumenfeld: Front Door, Back Door, Economic Chasm: Not a PBS Series
A luxury condominium complex in New York City’s Upper West Side plans to contain a door for use by wealthy residents only, and a separate door for lower-income tenants. What we are witnessing is a...
View ArticleJean Hardisty: From the New Right to Neoliberalism: the Threat to Democracy...
There has been a political shift in the Right’s reigning ideology. The shift is from the Right’s fixation on capturing and consolidating power to establishing rule by the laws of unfettered capitalism.
View ArticleAllen L. Roland: 2014 Midterm Elections Will Change Nothing
This election is set to be the most expensive non-presidential election in US history and unfortunately money buys elections. Not only do politicians do the bidding of the wealthy, they themselves are...
View ArticleArlene Goldbard: Post-Election Letter to A Friend
Members of Congress didn't wake up one day and say, "I think it's about time to extend voting rights to women." We the people did that, and when enough of us made our voices heard, laws changed.
View ArticleAryeh Cohen: Sit Down to Stand Up
Nonviolent direct action has two goals. The first one, as my friend and teacher, and fellow CLUE-LA board member Jim Conn has said, is to turn the tables on the powerful. When the oppressed stop...
View ArticleJerry Ashton: Jubilee and Debt Abolition: A Bill Collector’s Perspective
My experiences as a bill collector are exactly why I have arrived at the belief that here in the U.S., if not the world, a Jubilee is in order. But why should the recommendations of a reformed “bill...
View ArticleReid Madden: Social Justice Warriors, Unite!
The biggest challenge is turning awareness into real action. It doesn’t just come up when people know about an issue -- there has to be a real plan for what happens next.
View ArticleKarin Swann-Rubenstein: A ‘Moment’ for our Movement: The Work of Creating a...
Following the now-famed Women’s March on the day after President Trump’s inauguration, speculation mounted about whether we were seeing a real “movement” or simply a “moment” of reaction from an...
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