8 hours ago by admin

Gabor Mate talks about how capitalism is bad for one’s mental and physical health. from KPFA’s Against the Grain Against the Grain – February 1, 2012 at 12:00pm Click to listen (or download)

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8 hours ago by admin

““In spite of the increase in the franchise (i.e. right to vote), the average citizen has little more say in government than the holder of a life insurance policy has over the companies in which he holds a share by virtue of that policy.” by Chuck Hamilton from Notes From the Ninth Circle “None are ...

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1 day ago by Joe Cahill

OPINION: MORE THAN half of us now flaunt the characteristics of middle-class life: home ownership, white-collar employment, third-level and professional education, association with other middle-class people, and a proportion (some say at least one-third) of net income available, after basic food and ...

Pavee Point Media Monitor - pavee.ie/mediamonitor

5 days ago by andrew

The classless society. Remember that? It was John Major's big thing. The classless society was idealistic nonsense, but it reflected what has often been thought to be a British obsession with class. Why is this meant to be such a British obsession? Because class doesn't exist elsewhere? Well, one pl ...

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9 days ago by Prof.Ray Titus

'The point is this: If we’re going to have a war, let’s do it right. The battle lines should be drawn orthogonally to the oversimplified “rich versus the rest.” A virtuous war would be one that rewards society’s honest earners and productive contributors, while punishing society’s predators, pirates ...

Buyer Behaviour - buyerbehaviour.org

10 days ago by raskausn

I started to notice my social class for the first time at the age of ten. This all happened after visiting my elementary school friend. Her house was twice, or maybe three times bigger than the little apartment I lived in. She had her own room, while I had to share rooms with my siblings. [...]

Experience of a Lifetime - blogs.oregonstate.edu/uhds

24 days ago by stephanie jones

Reblogged from Cooperative Catalyst: A boy from New Orleans shows up a week and a half after Hurricane Katrina. Being one of only a handful of white kids at our school, he is a little edgy and approaches another white student cautiously. “I’ve never been at a school with so many Hispanics,” he whisp ...

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27 days ago by Claire Tupling

In a recent Guardian article Chris McGreal reports on the Texas schools hosting their own police forces. Police officers patrol school corridors, maintaining order, arresting and charging students with a range of offences which, had they been committed outside of the school’s jurisdiction would be c ...

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39 days ago by David Jonathan Malas

BOOK REVIEW: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn By Betty Smith Harper Perennial Modern Classics I recently finished reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The book is centered on the underclass of Brooklyn, New York, in the years up to World War I. (The tree, itself, is one commonly found growing up between the cr ...

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41 days ago by Christopher D. Hanna

Happy New Year. It's January 1, 2012. Have you broken your New Year's resolutions yet? Mine were to focus on eliminating some bad habits, developing new healthy ones, writing more and elevating my station in life. I had fallen off the wagon and smoked a few packs of cigarettes in the last two-and-a- ...

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