A Personal Remembrance of the History of International Women's Day
International Women’s Day has been a part of my life since I was little. With the increasing threat of fascism, my parents emigrated from Germany to the Soviet Union in 1929 where they lived for...
View ArticleA SPACE OF ONE’S OWN: FROM A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE
We are starting a group consciousness raising diary to deal with women’s similarities and difference on issues of race, class and gender. Each diary will run for one week, during which time you can...
View ArticleA SPACE OF OUR OWN: A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE
(NOTE: WE ARE MOVING THE SERIES TO TUESDAYS AT 6PM, BEGINNING WITH OUR NEXT SESSION, JULY 5TH.)This is the second in a series of ongoing women’s consciousness raising sessions. This is how it works:We...
View ArticleA SPACE OF OUR OWN: A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Seems the diary has run into a little miscommunication. Not quite sure why diary isn't up, but check back later -- maybe will find JustJennifer and find out what happened. JustJennifer--where are...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Is A Non-Exploitive Economy Based on Worker-Own...
EACH MODE OF PRODUCTION PRODUCES THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION (MARX) With the increasing globalization of the world, we worry about how we will be able to fight the domination of a global...
View ArticleA Space of Our Own: A Woman's Perspective on Sex, Race and Class and the...
We are inviting women from diverse cultures, races, sexual orientation, and all who self-identify as women, regardless of birth gender, to share their personal stories about their encounters with...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: The Development of a Cooperative Economy in Practice
Separating Utopian Goals from Working Models.In Part 1 (DailyKos, AMC, Is a Non-exploitive Economy Based on Worker-Owned Cooperatives Possible, http://www.dailykos.com/..., Sun Jul 24, 2011) we...
View ArticleA Woman's Perspective: The Economic, Political and Sociological Implications...
We are inviting women from diverse cultures, races, sexual orientation, and all who self-identify as women, regardless of birth gender, to share their personal stories about their encounters with...
View ArticleA Space of Our Own - A Woman's Perspective: Does Angela Davis think women are...
We are inviting women from diverse cultures, races, sexual orientation, and all who self-identify as women, regardless of birth gender, to share their personal stories about their encounters with...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: A Shot Gun Marriage Between Worker-Owned...
In an article in Dollars and Sense, Dan Bell noted that worker-owned enterprises and labor unions would appear to have much in common. Both share the goal of improving pay and working conditions. Both...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: The Canary in the Coal Mine of the Cooperative Movement
The United Nations has declared this year the year of the coop. Although cooperatives are a part of the private property system and only a small part of the world economy, a number of our readers...
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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Citizens United, June 5th, and Money, Money, Money,...
"When the madness is directed towards the likes of you and me, Then our blindness may be lifted and we might begin to see. For when others are afflicted, with the scourge that has no...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: The Cooperative Movement and the "Big Tent" Approach
As I entered the reception for the opening evening of the 5th National Worker Cooperative Conference (as compared to consumer cooperatives which most of us are more familiar with) I experienced a kind...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: The Importance of a Marxist Economic Analysis of the...
Today is the anniversary of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920. While revolutionary socialist feminists see the suffrage movement as a "reform" within...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Obama Privatizes Public Schools: Out Of The Frying...
The battle to privatize education as part of the neoliberal shock doctrine is in full swing--on one side we have a rank and file movement of public school K-12 educators and parents mobilized by the...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Brave New World - High Stakes Testing or When a Test...
(This article was co-authored by Diana Zavala, a parent with a 9 year old child in New York City Public Schools who works with Change the Stakes and Geminijen, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Meet-up...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: What the H*ll Is Crowdfunding? And Why is it Causing...
Today, instead of presenting a diary written by one of our regular or guest members, we are presenting an excerpt from a paper on "Crowdfunding" by Minsun Ji and Tony Robinson. Crowdfunding is the term...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Women’s Liberation
When I started to write this blog about the sex vs. gender debate, I was going to write a nice, intellectual piece, fully referenced, stating my position. But as I sat down to write it, I realized...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Don’t Buy the Hype: The Gender Wage Gap and Women's...
Accordingly to an article entitled, “More Women Are bringing Home the Bacon…, ” heralding women’s gains in pay equity, a recent Pew study revealed that an impressive number of married breadwinner moms...
View ArticleAnti-capitalist Chat: Reflections of One Mother After the Trayvon Martin Verdict
When my son was three years old he got chicken pox on his birthday. I cancelled his party, but I gave him the present he most wanted – a Barbie doll. To be honest, I was a little uncomfortable...
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