Strike Debt! Bay Area: Rumors of Occupy’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Strike Debt! Bay Area: Rumors of Occupy’s Death are Greatly ExaggeratedEditor’s note: Strike Debt! is a nationwide movement of debt resisters fighting for a progressive economic agenda in their...
View ArticleThe Post Office Isn’t a Dead Letter
The Post Office Isn’t a Dead LetterUnless your life is centered upon an iPhone, an iPad, and an iEverything else, there is a possibility you may have actually bought a postage stamp, written a letter,...
View ArticleStrike Debt Radio Turns an Ear Towards Predatory Payday Loan and Check Cashing
Strike Debt Radio Turns an Ear Towards Predatory Payday Loan and Check CashingOriginally posted at Occupy Oakland. She’s not Mike. He’s not Cassie. And together on Strike Debt Radio the...
View ArticleChicago Mayoral Candidate Amara Enyia Proposes Public Bank
Chicago Mayoral Candidate Amara Enyia Proposes Public BankWe received the following press release today from Amara Enyia’s mayoral campaign. Her campaign website is here. Moving Chicago in the right...
View ArticleEmbrace The Suck
Embrace The Suck UC Davis Economics Professor Gregory Clark has crunched some numbers and determined that the American Dream is dead. Hearing this might cause many people a great deal of distress and...
View ArticleFerguson, Alienation, and City Budgets: Fleece the Poor, or Democratize Finance?
Ferguson, Alienation, and City Budgets: Fleece the Poor, or Democratize Finance? The elephant in the room is almost always an economic elephant. The unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following both the...
View ArticleExcess People
Excess PeopleMatt Stannard’s “Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice” (part one here, part two here) is an excellent exposition into an urgent need for change-that screams beyond the horrid...
View ArticleSocialist Christianity?
Socialist Christianity?On Wednesday the 4th of February, 2015 I had the chance to be present at a press conference in front of the White House. From Mexico had come the celebrated Father Gregorio...
View ArticleMaterial Responsibility: What the Banks Did to Baltimore
Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did to BaltimoreThere’s no shortage of pundits condemning the riots in Baltimore. There are also plenty of well-meaning people focusing solely on the...
View ArticleTheir Fiscal Conservatism and Ours
Their Fiscal Conservatism and OursA few weeks ago, in “Financial Insecurity Ruins Our Lives: Let’s Change the Game,” I discussed poverty’s association with failed relationships, poor health, and...
View ArticleHorace Greeley: Class Traitor
Horace Greeley: Class TraitorHe was born into poverty in New Hampshire in 1811. His father was a struggling farmer. His mother did most of the other chores. He was a brilliant student, but the family...
View ArticleExplaining Sanders’s “Socialism” to Kansans
Explaining Sanders’s “Socialism” to Kansans[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] I appreciate the kind attention which The Wichita Eagle recently paid to us local Democrats, progressive liberals, Christian...
View ArticleWhat Corbyn’s Critics Miss
What Corbyn’s Critics Miss“The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.” ~Jonathan Swift New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won...
View ArticleThe 2016 Elections: 6 Takeaways for the Economic Cooperation Movement
1. Because capitalism. The election of America’s most prominently parasitic and malicious real estate capitalist to Chief Executive says “this is what happens, Larry.” An economic system based on...
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