Young and Isolated By JENNIFER M. SILVA June 22, 2013, 2:30 pm The Great Divide is a series about inequality. In a working-class neighborhood in Lowell, Mass., in early 2009, I sat across the table from Diana, then 24, in the kitchen of her mother’s house. Diana had planned to graduate from college, marry, buy…
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Julia Ott Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism April 9th, 2014 | 4 responses Racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism. While most theories of capitalism set slavery apart, as something utterly distinct, because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage, new historical research reveals that for centuries, a single economic…
Who Goes To Jail? DOWNLOAD: VIDEOAUDIOGET CD/DVDMORE FORMATS GUESTS Matt Taibbi, award-winning journalist formerly with Rolling Stone magazine, now with First Look Media. His book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap,” has just been released. Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi is out with an explosive new book that asks why the…
AlterNet [1] / By Owen Poindexter [2] http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/only-3-percent-america-has-enough-total-assets-reach-max-contribution-limit-13 April 7, 2014 | The Supreme Court’s ruling in FEC vs. McCutcheon eliminated one of the few remaining limits on campaign donations, granting frightening new powers to the richest Americans, while providing no clear benefit to the rest of the population. McCutcheon eliminated the overall limit that…
An Interview With Staughton Lynd About the Labor Movement For more than 50 years, Staughton Lynd has been a leading radical in the United States. He was an engaged supporter of the Black Liberation Movement in the Deep South in the early 1960’s, most notably as coordinator of the Freedom Schools during Mississippi Summer in…
By ANNIE LOWREYMARCH 15, 2014 Fairfax County, Va., and McDowell County, W.Va., are separated by 350 miles, about a half-day’s drive. Traveling west from Fairfax County, the gated communities and bland architecture of military contractors give way to exurbs, then to farmland and eventually to McDowell’s coal mines and the forested slopes of the Appalachians.…