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A WPA for History: Occupy the American Historical Association
| Jesse Lemisch | January 24, 2012 |
[Partly in response to my calls to the American Historical Association to deal with the jobs crisis in the field, AHA President Tony Grafton organized on short notice a special session at the 126th Annual Meeting of the organization in Chicago on January 6, 2012. The session, entitled "Jobs for Historians: Approaching the Crisis from the Demand Side," was well-attended, with about 250 people in the Sheraton Chicago’s Ballroom VI. Grafton chaired, and I was one of four speakers.
Carl Davidson, Bill Ayers, and Zig Ziglar Moments
| George Fish | December 28, 2011 |
Adapted from an article originally published in the May 2011 Indianapolis Peace & Justice Journal—GF
Add another Frustration to Being Unemployed: A Case in Point from Indiana’s WorkOne State Employment Agency
| George Fish | December 12, 2011 |
(I’m sure unemployed workers outside of Indiana have encountered very similar problems, and can relate well to this particular situation; just one more frustration added to the already-present myriad frustrations of being unemployed and not able to find a job. Originally published in the July 2011 Movement, monthly newspaper of the Indianapolis Peace & Justice Center—GF)
A Taxonomy of Capitalist Sharks
| Richard Greeman | December 12, 2011 |
Trying to reform Capitalism is a futile as preaching Vegetarianism to a Shark. And nearly as dangerous. Stay away from those gaping greedy Jaws if you don’t want to get eaten alive—the sorry Fate of many idealistic Liberals and Social Democrats! (See fig. 1)
Euthanasia for the Rentier
| Barry Finger | November 30, 2011 |
The immediate European economic crisis demonstrates, if there were any lingering doubts, that the architecture of the European Monetary Union is incompatible with countercyclical intervention. It was designed solely to contain inflation at 2%. There is no central fiscal authority and no mandate to either maintain acceptable levels of employment or to sustain working class living standards against the ravages of the business cycle.
Occupy the American Historical Association: Demand a WPA Federal Writers' Project
| Jesse Lemisch | November 27, 2011 |
As part of his program to deal with America's economic catastrophe, economist Robert Reich has proposed a revival of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.
Andalusian Uprising: The Empire that Unites the Arab Spring and European Anti-Austerity Protesters
| Greg Smithsimon | November 26, 2011 |
In the seventh century, Musa bin Nusair, born in Syria, traveled and fought his way through the Middle East and across North Africa, expanding the Muslim empire headquartered in Damascus, Syria. With his general Tariq bin Ziyad in the lead, he crossed the Mediterranean from Morocco with an army of several thousand, taking control of most of Spain. From 711 until 1031, the Umayyad Empire stretched from Córdoba to Damascus.
Sharing the Torch: Youth of the 60s Meet With the Youth of OWS
| Sheila D. Collins | November 23, 2011 |
The evolving Occupy Wall Street movement continues to confound and surprise even its ardent supporters. Two days after Mayor Bloomberg’s brutal nighttime eviction of sleeping Occupiers from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, a massive candlelight march in support of Occupy Wall St. wound its way from Foley Square (opposite the federal courthouse), around City Hall and across the Brooklyn Bridge (police estimated 32,500 participants).
Occupy the Democratic Party? No Way!
| Dan La Botz | November 22, 2011 |
At a moment when Occupy faces severe police repression and cold weather, and as we are both extending our movement to the streets and rethinking our future, various pressures are beginning to build with the objective of taking our movement into the Democratic Party.