Archive for September, 2011

#OccupyWallStreet; ”Stop Resisting! Stop Fighting!”

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 28, 2011 | Tags: #OccupyWallStreet, Alessio Rastani, Amazon.com, Amy Goodman, BBC, Boston Review, Doug Henwood, Gerald Friedman, Glen Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, Hershey's, Jeanne Mansfield, Kristain Williams, Left Business Observer, Los Angeles, Michael Smith, Pennsylvania, police brutality, prisons, protest, public-sector unions, public-sector workers, state budget cuts, Wall Street | 2 Comments

(Sorry–no picture today–the post is already too long, and there are two embedded videos. Even if you skim, though, please read through to the end. There’s a bit of a punchline in item #5. –CS) 1.) #OccupyWallStreet: This weekend, I’ll be going to a conference at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, sponsored by the Union ...Read more.

Suskind on Obama via DeLong

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 21, 2011 | Tags: aggregate demand, Barack Obama, Brad DeLong, Christina Romer, jobs crisis, Larry Summers, Maureen Dowd, productivity, Ron Suskind, unemployment | 1 Comment

Brad DeLong posted these very interesting excerpts from Ron Suskind’s new book Confidence Men on his blog: Maybe this is part of the “women problem” Maureen Dowd mentions in her recent column. But I thought that column was pretty fluffy, battle-of-the-sexes stuff, whereas this Suskind passage is great. Who would have thought that lightbulb would ...Read more.

Documentary about Gene Sharp–3pm Sunday in Boston

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 16, 2011 | Tags: Arab Spring, Boston Film Festival, Gene Sharp, nonviolent revolution | No Comments

Gene Sharp Biopic: This Sunday at the Boston Film Festival is the Boston premier of a biopic about Gene Sharp, Boston-based activist treasure. He’s the leading light of the nonviolent revolution movement, widely considered the ideological parent of the Arab Spring and many other freedom movements. The film will be at 3 pm at ...Read more.

Rank-and-File Economics | 9/11 | Ponzi | Floods

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 13, 2011 | Tags: 9/11, airline industry, Alejandro Reuss, Ann Marie Buerkle, Binghamton, climate change, disaster, EPA, FEMA, flight attendants, floods, global warming, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Katherine Sciacchitano, Liz Stanton, Only In It For The Gold, Ponzi schemes, Rick Perry, Rodney Ward, Scott Masters, Social Security, Susquehanna, Triple Crisis, unions, Weather Underground | 3 Comments

(1) Rank-and-File Economics: I have just posted the cover story from our Sept/Oct 2011 Annual Labor Issue, Rank-and-File Economics: Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery, by Katherine Sciacchitano. This is a great article–I hope it gets wide circulation. (I’m working on that now–submitting it to the news aggregators; you can help by linking to ...Read more.

Annual Labor Issue!

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Sep 1, 2011 | Tags: annual labor issue, Arthur MacEwan, Boeing, bond markets, Europe, IKEA, Josh Eidelson, Katherine Sciacchitano, labor militancy, Leo Panich, monetary system, NLRB | 4 Comments

(1) Annual Labor Issue! Our September/October 2011 issue has been printed and is shipping out now. E-subscribers have already received their copies. I have already posted Josh Eidelson’s feature on the strikes against Boeing, which the NLRB has said Boeing retaliated against the union for. Here is the table of contents. And here is the ...Read more.