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Back to SearchFrances Fox Piven: Movements Still Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, cl…
8 years, 5 months ago
Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that disc…
8 years, 5 months ago
Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, were violently removed. On some level, everyone knows this—yet it’s mostl…
8 years, 5 months ago
Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted t…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Militant 70s Labor Movement You Never Heard of with Lane Windham
Everyone agrees that the 1970s was the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it …
8 years, 5 months ago
Workers’ Rights Are Students’ Rights
Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS t…
8 years, 5 months ago
A New Poor People’s Campaign with Nijmie Dzurinko
Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign alongside other organizers shortly before he was assassinated 50 years ago. Today, organiz…
8 years, 5 months ago
That Trump Book Tho with Patrick Blanchfield
Your first Diglet of the new year, and we’re talking about that Trump book. At n+1 Patrick Blanchfield makes the case that Fire and Fury is not, as s…
8 years, 6 months ago
Killing the Black Body with Dorothy Roberts
Chattel slavery made black women’s reproduction the source of private property—and in doing so invented race and American racism. Ever since, the den…
8 years, 6 months ago
Troop Veneration and US Empire with Catherine Lutz
The protest movement against the onset of the Iraq War was countered by a call to “support our troops” from militarists on the right. Venerating Amer…
8 years, 6 months ago