A Charter for the 99 Percent
After November 6, 2012, the big sound rippling around the world was not a chorus of bipartisanship, not a whoop of euphoria, but a collective sigh of relief. Still, it must not be forgotten that nearly half of America’s voters … {…}
A Charter for the 99 Percent
Now, the next phase of a 99 percent movement needs to get—and keep—busy. Why do I say “next phase”? Because the Occupy movement that came about in 2011 has accomplished just about as much of its mission as possible. {…}
Goldman Sachs: Impoverishing Truck Drivers
Todd Gitlin: Goldman Sachs – Impoverishing Truck Drivers {…}
The Plain Human Hope of Carl Oglesby, 1935-2011
Todd Gitlin: The Plain Human Hope of Carl Oglesby, 1935-2011 {…}
Expertise, Dogma, and the Journalism of Crackpot Ideas
Todd Gitlin: Expertise, Dogma, and the Journalism of Crackpot Ideas {…}
Sandmonkey: “Too Stupid to Govern Us”
The easiest Egyptian revolutionaries for a non-Arabic speaking American to find are the young bloggers, wielders of camera-phones, YouTube uploaders, and social-network activists—”shabab al-Facebook,” as they are sometimes known, the Facebook youth credited with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. They … {…}
A Middle-Class Revolutionary of Tahrir Square
Todd Gitlin: A Middle-Class Revolutionary of Tahrir Square {…}
Symposium: Todd Gitlin
In the world I was born into, Israel was an emotion wrapped in an idea. Simply by existing, the Jewish state was a portal to deliverance, and since I had been carried through that portal at birth, so to speak, … {…}
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Student Debtors Put Pressure on the Department of Education· May 20, 2013 ·
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The Struggle for Cheap Meat on the Lower East Side· May 17, 2013 ·
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Belabored Podcast #6: “That Can Get You Fired”· May 17, 2013 ·
