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VideoFacing the Kool-Aid Recovery with Columbia U. Prof. Dorian Warren [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on October 15 2009, 11:21AM
The AP reports that “more than 80 percent of economists believe the recession is over.” But they don’t face up to the much higher unemployment and poverty in communities of color across the US. “The last full employment program…
Topics: Economy, Video & Multimedia
Rinku Sen and Billy Parish: Young, Green, and Broke
by Rinku Sen on October 6 2009, 8:08AM
This piece was coauthored with Billy Parish of the Energy Action Coalition; it originally appeared at the Huffington Post. Last week, the Labor Department reported that youth unemployment stands at 18.2%, nearly twice the national average of 9.8%. The percentage…
Topics: Economy, Environment
The Accidental American’s Rinku Sen on our Broken Immigration Narrative, Post-9/11
by Debayani Kar on September 11 2009, 8:46AM
Moroccan-born waiter Fekkak Mamdouh’s life was thrown into turmoil after September 11th, when Windows on the World, the restaurant he worked at in the World Trade Center, was destroyed. The book about his immigrant experience in the aftermath of September…
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Rinku Sen on “Illegal”: Word is a Gateway to Racism and Exploitation [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on September 10 2009, 11:12AM
Perhaps the most talked-about moment of President Obama’s address to Congress last night followed the dismissal of rumors that the new health care plan would cover ‘illegal immigrants.’ Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was so outraged that he yelled, from…
Topics: Immigration, Video & Multimedia
Obama’s Full Health Care Address [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on September 9 2009, 6:35PM
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Also noteworthy: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor ‘pon de Blackberry; Kennedy’s letter to Obama; Obama comes out and says ‘public option’ but leaves wiggle room; “Those who are…
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by Channing Kennedy on September 6 2009, 11:01AM
Van Jones, special adviser on green jobs to President Obama, has resigned. The text of his statement follows: I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today. On the eve of historic fights for health care…
Topics: Environment
Glenn Beck’s Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies & Falsehoods
by Guest Columnist on August 28 2009, 4:52PM
[Editor’s note: I’ve included Glenn Beck’s piece on Van Jones above, in case you’d like to hear a narrator say ‘green jobs’ in a scary voice. I kid, but seriously: while we might see these as the obvious falsehoods…
30% Unemployment, Pre-Recession: Immigrant Communities Need Real Recovery [VIDEO]
by Seth Freed Wessler on August 26 2009, 1:29PM
Crossposted at Huffington Post. Last week, the world’s central bankers got together for a little strategy session in Colorado, and declared that the recovery is on its way. This is the way it works with recessions. They ravage the world,…
Topics: Economy, Immigration, Video & Multimedia
The Record-Breaking Great Recession: Food Stamps Edition
by Julianne Hing on August 25 2009, 4:18PM
Click detail to see full image. We all know the job cuts and housing losses in this recession keep reaching new and scarier heights. But check out the numbers of people receiving food stamps these days, via a new…
Topics: Health
Open Books: Progressive Book Club Interview with Rinku Sen [VIDEO]
by Jorge Rivas on August 18 2009, 12:20PM
The Progressive Book Club has started a video series, Open Books, in which they ask “PBC authors to tell us about the books they love.” This week, Rinku Sen, ARC’s Executive Director and co-author of The Accidental American, recommends…
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Schwarzenegger’s Blockbuster Budget Cuts Terminate the Safety Net [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on August 13 2009, 9:37AM
When financial crisis hit, the California legislature didn’t raise taxes, end tax giveaways, or cut corporate welfare. Instead, they cut services to the people made most vulnerable by the recession — children, the elderly, the sick, victims of domestic…
Topics: Economy, Politics, Schools & Youth, Video & Multimedia
Secretary Duncan’s Proposed School Restructuring Smacks of Dressed-up Discrimination [VIDEO]
by Terry Keleher on July 15 2009, 9:31AM
Borrowing from his playbook at the Chicago Public Schools, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants to go national with his school “turnaround” model, First, you fire the entire staff—from teachers to kitchen workers and janitors—at neighborhood schools, typically in…
Topics: Schools & Youth
RaceWire Allies Liveblogging Sotomayor Hearings [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on July 13 2009, 10:33AM
Hoo boy! Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings kicked off this morning, and like RaceWire’s Debayani Kar said earlier, this thing is going to be lousy with clumsy conservative race and gender politics. Not to mention a foregone…
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Republican Witnesses Against Sotomayor Include Arab-American Internment Endorser
by Debayani Kar on July 9 2009, 7:26PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee today released the witness list called by Democrats and Republicans for next week’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. The Republican-picked lineup is disappointingly unsurprising, especially when given that the committee’s ranking member, Sen….
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Sikh Students Speak Out: “We Want Safe Schools Now!”
by Julianne Hing on July 8 2009, 1:35PM
I’m both excited and a little disheartened to share the latest news from the Sikh Coalition’s New York office. The community org released a new report with findings that show that one year into a 2008 resolution announced by New…
Topics: Politics, Schools & Youth
The Recovery Act Fights Reagan’s Job Training Agenda
by Guest Columnist on July 6 2009, 2:02PM
by Jonathan Yee Need a job? Well, the National Recovery Act has created a great deal of excitement for green jobs and their potential to save the environment and create jobs for low income communities; for example, Oakland’s Green Jobs…
Topics: Economy
Why Deport Formerly Incarcerated Immigrants? Is the System Broken?
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 15 2009, 11:32AM
ColorLines magazine is in Jamaica this week investigating the devastating effect of American deportation policies on families. Check back for more updates soon. Christopher Johnson, 38, was deported from Washington, DC to Jamaica six weeks ago, after he finished…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration
Sotomayor ‘Gotchas’ Would Clear the Bench [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on June 4 2009, 11:54AM
Tammy Johnson teases the criticisms of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s statement on Latina empathy and the role of the courts. By the same ‘gotcha’ logic, Tammy would fire Alito and Scalia… and she’s just getting started….
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SCOTUS and identity politics: Newyorkricans vs. wise white men
by Michelle Chen on May 22 2009, 9:02PM
The crusade for colorblindness has gained momentum in the media scrutiny of Sonia Sotomayor, a reported front-runner for the Supreme Court, and a self-proclaimed Newyorkrican. Amidst tense disputes over Sotomayor’s qualifications and ideological leanings, Stuart Taylor’s latest National Journal…
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Twenty Years Later: James Baldwin’s America Hasn’t Changed
by Kai Wright on December 6 2007, 8:50AM
by Kai Wright Author and essayist James Baldwin died 20 years ago on Dec. 1. Baldwin’s biographer and close friend, David Leeming, called his essays “prophetic,” as they articulated an eerily clear-eyed view of America’s peril at the hands of…
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