Toronto Fran Piven is a brilliant scholar and political theorist, still vitally engaged at the cutting edges of her work while still affiliated with CUNY’s Graduate Center, and someone I count as colleague and friend over our 40 years. We spoke months ago. She called for advice about how to handle the sudden interest in …
Category: Protests
Responding to Public Cutbacks: UK-Uncut
New Orleans With every headline at every level of government talking about severe cutbacks, a loss of over 1 million American public sector jobs already, and given the depth of the Great Recession unions and others seem in the bunker and on the defensive without much of a response, perhaps there’s something worth learning across …
Mortgage Mischief and the Need for A Moratorium
New Orleans An analyst believes the exposure for Bank of America on its foreclosure mess and incompetence could be as high as $70 billion USD. Bank stocks fell across the board. Other reports finally reveal what the slapdash servicing arms of the banks were hiring what they called “Burger King Kids” who insiders now admit …