Why We Need Debtors’ Unions
Even if they don’t bring on a recession, the Federal Reserve’s recent series of interest rate hikes have already dampened
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Author: Andrew Ross
Decolonizing the Cultural Workplace: A New Organizing Front
See below this article for an accompanying article, Modern Art/Ancient Wages, by Kitty Krupat. Decolonizing is hard work. Nor is
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Is Care Work Already the Future?
“PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches of
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Who Built Zion? Palestinian Labor and the Case for Political Rights
Those conscripted to build Israel are due full citizenship rights.
Read moreShould Labor Boycott Israel?
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) campaign is shaping up as one of these historical moments when everyone has to choose which side they are on. Trade unionists have good reason to know what this feels like. Labor history is punctuated with similar contests, when nuanced views on strategy have run their course and we are left with a stark moral choice.
Read moreThe Politics of Debt Resistance & Getting the Left out of Debt
Like others who committed themselves to the fledgling debtors’ movement, I have experienced the major occupational hazard of single-issue activists—we tend to see our issue everywhere. Oftentimes, it’s the only thing we see, and our more ecumenical allies have to find ways to remind us, either gently or more rudely, that issues and struggles are always connected. That said, debt really is everywhere right now.
Read moreThe Greening of America Revisited: Can the U.S. Create High-Skill Green Jobs?
There have been very few silver linings to the Great Recession, but one of them has been the prospect of
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