It is really not "The Economy" that is the issue; it's poverty that causes us to slide. "It's Poverty" that we must first see and describe. A strong economy will not grow our future. If it could than we would have nothing to deride. Stock prices are [...]
Photograph; A protestor during demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo. on August 17, 2014. | Credit; Jon Lowenstein—Noor for TIME Kareem Abdul-Jabbar @kaj33 | Originally Published at Time. August 17, 2014 Ferguson is not just about systemic racism — it's about class warfare and how America's poor are held [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Published at The Becoming Radical. June 16, 2014 [Originally posted at Daily Kos and Truthout, "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins is a powerful companion to George Saunders's Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.] October 18, 2011 As a high [...]
Photograph; Students walk in the hallway as they enter the lunch line of the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. | Hans Pennink/AP By Ben Casselman | Originally Published at FiveThirtyEight. June 10, 2014 6:52 AM The slow economic recovery is taking a toll on [...]
"What's going on?" (Marvin Gaye) "Like Genocide, So Econocide" (Alice Skirtz) Every once in a while in the sea of intellectual discourse a term surfaces that resonates, that galvanizes the historical moment, that has gravitas. Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" was one of those terms. [...]
By Roger Cohen | The New York Times. May 29, 2014 LONDON — Guildhall at the heart of the City can be a lulling sort of place after a long day. The statuary and vaulted timber ceiling of the medieval great hall lead the eye to wander [...]
America, do you know where your children are? Parents, how might you see your son? Is he a scholar, a saint, or is he scorned for his race? Perhaps each of these is true. What about your daughter? Is she the greatest? Is she considered equal to [...]
Photograph; Appalachian Children. Tumblr. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. May 20, 2014 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden Since October 1999, when I experienced several weeks of unrelenting panic attacks, I [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Common Dreams. May 19, 2014 Many wealthy Americans believe that dysfunctional behavior causes poverty. Their own success, they would insist, derives from good character and a strict work ethic. But they would be missing some of the facts. Ample evidence exists to show [...]
