The New Caste Class
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... Read More
The Unity of Class and the Division of Nationality
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... Read More
It’s not only the rich who carry out classism
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... Read More
Who Are Congress’s Protectors of Class Privilege?
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... Read More
Upsides of sky-high youth unemployment
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... Read More
The 99% Gets A Break Down
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,... Read More
What about those hand signals?
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... Read More
Thoughts about Thanksgiving (& -isms we may encounter at the table!)
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... Read More
Have pity on the rich
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... Read More
Diversity & isms in #Occupy
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... Read More
The Occupy Together Movement: 5 Points, for Your Consideration
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,... Read More
Horizontal Participatory Democracy is Worth the Wait
“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... Read More
Occupiers’ Demands and Working-Class Activist Traditions
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... Read More
Occupy DC: Chamber of Commerce helps ‘built-to-loot’ companies
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... Read More
Wall Street occupation for the 99%
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... Read More