The Metropolitan Education Problem: Why High School Students Are Walking Out
Last Friday, thousands of Philadelphia high school students walked out of their schools and marched on City Hall to protest a proposed austerity budget that would categorically eliminate extracurricular activities, libraries, and guidance counselors. As a former high school teacher … {…}
Traversing the U.S. Food System: An Interview with Tracie McMillan
In Dissent’s Spring 2012 Food issue, Marion Nestle pointed out that changing the food system is as radical an objective as those pursued by the civil rights, women’s rights, and environmentalist movements. “But food has one particular advantage for advocacy,” … {…}
All for One and One for All: A Response to Marshall Sahlins
In his interview with David Moberg in Dissent, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences to protest its “involvement in research for the military.” This strikes me as late and incongruous. The discipline Sahlins … {…}
Student Debtors Put Pressure on the Department of Education
On March 15, a group of over 200 student activists from across the country gathered outside the Department of Education for one of the most effective uses of direct action tactics I have ever been a part of. The group … {…}
The Struggle for Cheap Meat on the Lower East Side
Within half an hour, thousands of women had spread from one block throughout the entire Lower East Side. They broke glass and climbed into butcher shops; seized kosher chicken and beef and flung it into the streets. They forced anyone … {…}
Belabored Podcast #6: “That Can Get You Fired”
Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board rejected, new strike authorizations, and Sarah and Josh discuss the state of fast food workers’ organizing efforts. They interview journalist Jake Blumgart about recent developments around anti-sweatshop activism, at-will employment, the future of Atlantic City, and high-stakes testing at a sushi restaurant. {…}
Young U.S. Citizens Call on Obama to Reunite Families
On May 2, as President Obama arrived in Mexico City, hundreds gathered outside the heavily fortified United States Embassy to protest his visit, U.S. immigration policies, and U.S. economic and political influence in the region. {…}
T.R.M. Howard: Civil Rights Rabble-Rouser, Abortion Provider
This is not a famous picture, but it should be. Forty years ago, the March 22, 1973 issue of Jet magazine featured Dr. T.R.M. Howard and a staffer attending a prostrate female patient on its cover, all under a yellow … {…}
The Austerity Follies
Earlier this week, the Congressional Budget Office released its budget projections for the next decade. Its finding, that both the budget deficit and the debt-to-GDP ratio are recovering nicely from their recessionary spikes, is unsurprising. But its timing is impeccable. … {…}
Nietzsche’s Neoliberalism? A Response To Corey Robin
In a striking new piece of intellectual history in the Nation, political scientist Corey Robin argues that neoliberalism is haunted by Friedrich Nietzsche’s late nineteenth-century elitism. Like all ambitious histories, Robin’s genealogy of neoliberalism raises more questions than it can answer, but one … {…}
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Traversing the U.S. Food System: An Interview with Tracie McMillan· May 22, 2013 ·
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All for One and One for All: A Response to Marshall Sahlins· May 21, 2013 ·
