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The New Solidarity: How Immigrant Bond Funds Free ICE Detainees

May 2020May 2020 Administrator community organizations, immigrant workers, politics, poverty, radicalism, unorganized workers

By Mariya Strauss On August 7, 2019, veteran civil rights attorney Cliff Johnson, who directs the MacArthur Justice Center at

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks

September 2018February 2019 Pat Gowens and Kressent Pottenger austerity, poverty, social welfare, unemployment, women workers, working class

I raised three sons as a single mom on welfare when they were very young, and then again when they

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The New Geography of Suburbia

June 2018August 2018 Paula Finn poverty, suburbia, urban

Highlights for June 11th In this newsletter, we turn our attention to the suburbs. And for good reason, since that’s

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Featured Race Social Movements

Mourning King: The Civil Rights Movement and the Fight for Economic Justice

May 2018August 2018 Reuel Schiller liberalism, politics, poverty, racism, social welfare

Did Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination mark the end of a movement merging racial and economic justice?

Featured Gender & Sexual Identity

Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence

October 2015June 2018 Amber Hollibaugh and Margot Weiss capitalism, equality, Fall 2015, gender discrimination, Labor, LGBT, neoliberalism, politics, poverty, racism, sexual orientation unorganized workers

The LGBT movement’s laser-focus on marriage equality propagates the myth of gay and lesbian affluence as political strategy, leaving aside any analysis of class or economic inequality or poverty—much less an analysis of capitalism. LGBT people are typically depicted as affluent consumers with high disposable incomes, yet this is hardly the norm. The majority of LGBT/Q people are poor or working class, female, and people of color, who struggle to get a job or hold onto one, to pay their rent and care for themselves and the people they love.

On the Contrary

Are The Democrats The Right Choice?

November 2010June 2019 Adolph Reed and Bob Master Adolph Reed, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democrats, Fall 2010, Left, poverty, race, Republican, Right

The question whether an Obama-era Democratic party may offer opportunities for labor and left-of-center political interests presumes that Obama’s Democratic Party offers potential for significant departure from the rightward tacking we’ve seen since Bill Clinton’s presidency. There is little in anything Obama’s said or done to warrant such a presumption.