Birth: September 18, 1943
Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful..
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. An….
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intell….
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in….
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't hav….
Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outsid….
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especial….
It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the on….
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developi….
What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes the claim that without soc….
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of childhoo….
Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has ev….
The media is not about responding to the wishes of people. All you have to do in the United States is turn on the national news at six-thirty, and wa….
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat. ….
Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reducti….
The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home and abroad. War ….
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to contest ….
Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those spaces that enable an e….
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison..
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery..
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what ….