PBS Airtime: Friday, March 20, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. DST on PBS
With the media buzzing over socialism in the Beltway, Bill Moyers sits down with "old-school socialist" Mike Davis for his critique of the government's response to the economic crisis and how he thinks it compares to Roosevelt's New Deal. Davis is a writer and historian who teaches creative writing at University of California, Riverside.
Also, Bill Moyers talks with Marta Palaez, president and CEO of a domestic abuse shelter in San Antonio, Texas, - Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc., - for perspective on the human face of the economic downturn and how it may be pushing some families over the edge.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Another Great Depression? More Americans Think So
The number of Americans who think another Great Depression will occur within the next year is on the rise, a poll released Tuesday shows.
Forty-five percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey said another depression is likely.
"Will the Great Recession turn into another Great Depression? A growing number of Americans think it might," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Last December, 38% said a depression like the one the U.S. experienced in the 1930s was likely in the next year. Now that number is up 7 points."
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Forty-five percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey said another depression is likely.
"Will the Great Recession turn into another Great Depression? A growing number of Americans think it might," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Last December, 38% said a depression like the one the U.S. experienced in the 1930s was likely in the next year. Now that number is up 7 points."
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
A Whole New Kind of Struggle is Emerging
From an interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review:
The first thing to recognize is that we are suddenly in a different historical period. One of my favorite quotes comes from Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1969 film Burn! where the main character, William Walker (played by Marlon Brando), states: “Very often between one historical period and another, ten years suddenly might be enough to reveal the contradictions of an entire century.” We are living in such a period, not only because of the Great Financial Crisis and what the IMF is now calling a depression in the advanced capitalist economies, but also because of the global ecological crisis that during the last decade has accelerated out of control under business as usual, and due to the reappearance of “naked imperialism.” What made sense ten years ago is nonsense now. New dangers and new possibilities are opening up. A whole different kind of struggle is emerging....
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The first thing to recognize is that we are suddenly in a different historical period. One of my favorite quotes comes from Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1969 film Burn! where the main character, William Walker (played by Marlon Brando), states: “Very often between one historical period and another, ten years suddenly might be enough to reveal the contradictions of an entire century.” We are living in such a period, not only because of the Great Financial Crisis and what the IMF is now calling a depression in the advanced capitalist economies, but also because of the global ecological crisis that during the last decade has accelerated out of control under business as usual, and due to the reappearance of “naked imperialism.” What made sense ten years ago is nonsense now. New dangers and new possibilities are opening up. A whole different kind of struggle is emerging....
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Freedom of Speech (Just Watch What You Say)
From a Harper's magazine commentary on the Bush-era legal memoranda released by the White House yesterday:
"We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that effectively trashed the Constitution. What we know now is likely the least of it."
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"We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that effectively trashed the Constitution. What we know now is likely the least of it."
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Sherry Wolf Speaks Out!
Longtime socialist and LGBT activist Sherry Wolf is interviewed about the new fight for LGBT equality at a repeal DOMA rally in Chicago. Sherry is the author of the forthcoming title, Sexuality and Socialism:History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation, for Haymarket Books. She will also be speaking April 18 at the Marx is Back: Socialist Socialist Ideas for Changing the World, DC-Baltimore Socialist conference!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Dollars and Sense: UDC’s Tuition Showdown
The cover story in the latest issue of The Georgetown Voice is an in-depth article on the tuition hike and student struggle at the University of the District of Columbia.
The text of the ISO flier mentioned in the article is available here.
Questions raised about study on Prince William immigration policy
From the DC Examiner:
Prince William County’s government was unprepared for — and reacted ineffectively to — a massive influx of Hispanic immigrants, according to a study released this week, but some have raised questions about the report’s methods and findings.
The report by Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis of the Brookings Institution also concluded that there was not sufficient vetting of the immigration resolution or research into its potential consequences before its passage two years ago.
The original resolution — which directed police to inquire into the immigration status of anyone detained for a violation of state law or county ordinance if they had probable cause to believe that person was in the country illegally — was passed July 10, 2007, after a four-hour public input session. It was later revised, after intense debate from both sides, to direct police to inquire into a person’s immigration status after they were arrested for a violation of state or county law.
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Prince William County’s government was unprepared for — and reacted ineffectively to — a massive influx of Hispanic immigrants, according to a study released this week, but some have raised questions about the report’s methods and findings.
The report by Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson and Brooke DeRenzis of the Brookings Institution also concluded that there was not sufficient vetting of the immigration resolution or research into its potential consequences before its passage two years ago.
The original resolution — which directed police to inquire into the immigration status of anyone detained for a violation of state law or county ordinance if they had probable cause to believe that person was in the country illegally — was passed July 10, 2007, after a four-hour public input session. It was later revised, after intense debate from both sides, to direct police to inquire into a person’s immigration status after they were arrested for a violation of state or county law.
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