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#Occupy

The New Caste Class

August 21, 2015 by Charles Derber Leave a Comment

As the top 1% grabs most of the new wealth created in the United States, a conversation about inequality has risen to the top of national discourse. This will likely lead to a new focus on class that is always the central issue in capitalist societies. What is remarkable is not that the capitalist class […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in the Economy, Dismantlng Classism Tagged With: capitalism, classism

The Unity of Class and the Division of Nationality

January 2, 2014 by Paddy Vipond Leave a Comment

This world is divided into unrepresentative and irrelevant categories. Rather than looking at what we have in common with others, we are told to focus on the differences. It was in Austria, whilst staying with friends of mine in Vienna, that this became apparent. The only divide I had with these people was that of […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, A World Without Classism, Politics and Class Tagged With: class divisions, class unity, classism, immigrants, nationalism

It’s not only the rich who carry out classism

June 11, 2013 by Jay Mahin 5 Comments

Should the one percent be exclusively blamed for creating our stratified society? Occupy Wall Street came, and to some degree, has gone. Like many professional middle class progressive movements, its main focus has been on inequality between the owning class and everyone else. However, is the 1 percent owning class completely guilty for the stratification […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: classism, health care

Who Are Congress’s Protectors of Class Privilege?

October 3, 2012 by Chuck Collins Leave a Comment

Mitt Romney and I both grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit.  For much of our childhoods, we were represented in Congress by a tireless defender of the rich and powerful, U.S. Representative William Broomfield. Indeed, we would be hard-pressed to find a politician more faithful to the interests of the […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, A World Without Classism, Classism in Politics

Upsides of sky-high youth unemployment

May 1, 2012 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

Posting Class Action internships gives me a window into the massive under-use of young adults’ energy in this lousy economy. Even for unpaid internships, we get dozens of bright, motivated students, and even college graduates. And whenever we can afford to offer internships with small stipends, the applications come in by the hundreds. These applicants […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in the Economy, First Generation College Students Tagged With: first generation college students, recession, unemployment

The 99% Gets A Break Down

March 15, 2012 by Daniel Hunter

This last weekend I was asked to do a training on class for a group of Occupy activists in upstate New York. I was delighted, thrilled — and then terribly nervous. Why? Well, I love the 99% framework. But when it comes to getting deeper in class, it’s a little … uhm… conflating. I worried […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Poverty Tagged With: Occupy Movement, social movements

What about those hand signals?

November 25, 2011 by Betsy Leondar-Wright 1 Comment

The same week that Steven Colbert pretended to mock Occupy Wall Street’s hand signals, I saw them used at an Occupy Boston General Assembly, and my Social Movements class studied the pitfalls of too much and too little “movement culture” – quite a serendipity! Using the six measures of degrees of movement culture that my […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Poverty Tagged With: class cultures, social movements

Thoughts about Thanksgiving (& -isms we may encounter at the table!)

November 24, 2011 by Nicole Renee Brown 1 Comment

After listening to a NPR segment about Thanksgiving and some anxiety that this very social holiday brings up for folks, I realized that this year may be challenging in new ways. Not only has the economy been stagnant, unemployment is rising, and political movements are taking place nationwide and internationally that put class inequality at […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in Everyday Life, Politics and Class, Race and Class

Have pity on the rich

November 14, 2011 by Jonathan Frieman 1 Comment

Rich people must protest the way they are treated here in the US of A. And Marin County is THE place to start, cuz we got a LOT of rich people here. Why, just recently we were proudly cited as one of THE richest counties in the US. Filthily so. It’s clear that the rich […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Classism in Politics, Philanthropy and Classism Tagged With: super-rich

Diversity & isms in #Occupy

November 14, 2011 by Mike Miller of OTC Leave a Comment

The various “Occupy” developments around the country have opened the long-neglected and marginalized question of economic equality, and the power of concentrated income and wealth over the nation’s nominally “democratic” political system.  Nothing could be more welcome.  At the same time, the historic struggles of various “identity groups” for their place in the sun is […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Race and Class Tagged With: race and class, racism, social movements

The Occupy Together Movement: 5 Points, for Your Consideration

November 3, 2011 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

The Occupy Together Movement, starting with Occupy Wall Street, has been, in the words of an old television commercial, ‘simply marvelous’.  This is an exciting, energizing repudiation of the politics of economic injustice.  For this reason alone the movement needs the support of those of us on the left-side of the aisle.  Yes, there are […]

Filed Under: #Occupy

Horizontal Participatory Democracy is Worth the Wait

October 21, 2011 by Nick Delvino Leave a Comment

“Mic check!” “MIC CHECK!”   “I just want to say” “I JUST WANT TO SAY”     “that this is my first time here” “THAT THIS IS MY FIRST TIME HERE”      “and that being here right now” “AND THAT BEING HERE RIGHT NOW”      “and participating in this process” “AND PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROCESS”     “is the happiest” “IS THE […]

Filed Under: #Occupy Tagged With: participatory democracy

Occupiers’ Demands and Working-Class Activist Traditions

October 15, 2011 by Betsy Leondar-Wright

Thanks to Occupy Wall Street and its spin-offs, a national conversation has broken out over the purpose of protesting. I understand why defenders of the Occupy encampments say that it’s OK to put forward only general issues; it’s true that just being there spotlights the problems with the economy. But last Sunday’s New York Times […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Class in the Media, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Labor movement Tagged With: social movements, speaking up

Occupy DC: Chamber of Commerce helps ‘built-to-loot’ companies

October 6, 2011 by Chuck Collins Leave a Comment

On Thursday, October 6, more than 2,000 people assembled at Freedom Square and marched to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We brought thousands of resumes of people looking for jobs. Many testified about their job searches. Here were my remarks: A coalition of Wall Street companies —and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — are pressing […]

Filed Under: #Occupy

Wall Street occupation for the 99%

October 3, 2011 by Maynard Seider 1 Comment

The first thing I felt when I arrived at Liberty Park in New York City this past Saturday was the energy. It brought me back to the late ‘60s when I was a graduate student in Wisconsin. Now, in what might become the American Autumn, hundreds of men and women, mostly in their 20s and […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Class in The News, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: corporate welfare, recession unemployment, social movements, tax the rich

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