Category: Blog post
Lawrence Lessig on How to End Corruption & Restore the Republic
Professor Lawrence Lessig, of Harvard Law School, has a plan to end political corruption in the U.S. What do you think?
Who is Too Big to Fail?
[View the story “Who is Too Big to Fail? | Testimony of Fed Reserve & FDIC” on Storify]
The (Un)Common Core
Well, the joke’s on us. It turns out that when you parcel off public education to technocratic billionaires, they write themselves into the
We want justice and we want it now.
This was a speech given by NYC Councilmember Jumaane D. Williams on 2/26/13 by mic check at #MIllionhoodies Vigil for Trayvon Martin in Union
This is What Democracy Feels Like
I delivered this speech at TEDxBenha on February, 20th, 2013 in Benha, Egypt. You may leave comments on the Facebook version. [divider] I am
Why we were meant to be together, Occupy.
It’s Christmas morning, and the eery quiet on Nostrand Ave in Bedford-Stuyvesent gives my mind some space to roam. It is never this quiet
A letter to the next President.
Dear President-To-Be _______________ (fill in blank), Thank you for spending $1 billion to get yourself elected/re-elected. You’ve
On A Street Far From Wall Street
We were far from Wall Street. The sidewalks were strewn with rotted furniture, tattered clothes and assorted debri. Families and friends huddled
Operation Caymans: How the 1% Hides their Money
Early last year, as I was sharing a beer with a fellow 99 percenter and talking about tax policy, an idea came to me. It was one of those eureka!
The 99% are not idiots.
In typical Wall Street fashion, this week brings more claims that normal people just can’t understand complicated financial transactions.