Albert Shanker Institute executive director Leo Casey talks about community schools, public education, teacher evaluation, standardized testing, Common Core, the political dimension of corporate education
Walking the Walk
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard talks to Truthout about the opportunities of a new labor model.
From the grassroots uprisings last winter to the low-wage workersu2019 strikes at yearu2019s end, 2012 saw many people coming together for the first time and finding their voices.
Progressives need to pressure Obama to stick up for workers as promised.
United Food and Commercial Workers’ Pat O’Neill talks about the difficulty of organizing retail and the new tactics that have been developed, shoppers’ support and Wal-Mart workers’ extraordinary courage in the rolling actions leading up to Black Friday.
The outsourcing of good jobs, the elimination of pensions, rampant home foreclosures; skyrocketing higher education costs and mounting debt: Given these stark realities, the American middle class seems to be sinking fast.
That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media – even in times of economic downturn – is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the American news landscape.
The New Bottom Line is hardly more than a year old. Yet, in its short life, the network has been at the fore of several high-profile campaigns – including Move Your Money and the 99% Power protests.
(Photo: Eric Wagner / Flickr) As one of the more promising offshoots of the Occupy movement, Occupy Our Homes – the grassroots effort to prevent evictions and foreclosures – has continued to organize throughout the winter. With millions of Americans underwater on their home loans or otherwise facing distress about their mortgages, the issue has the power to give the Occupy movement’s concerns concrete resonance for millions of people.