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As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying…
Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982. Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. A veteran of the war on poverty and subsequent welfare-rights protests both in New York City and on the national stage, she has been instrumental in formulating the theoretical underpinnings of those movements. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America, and has also held offices in several professional associations, including the American Political Science Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Previously, she had been a member of the political science faculty at Boston University.
Frances Fox Piven has a warning for America. Don’t get too relaxed, there could be worse to come. “I don’t think this…
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.…
Trump is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep power. Can he be stopped?
‘Poverty Is Not Just a Measure of How Much Cabbage and Potatoes You Need to Live On’
Barbara Ransby profiles today’s Black freedom fighters, who are posing sophisticated new answers to old Left questions—like how to engage in electoral politics
Interview on social movements and disruptive tactics, the growing movement for women’s rights, electoral politics, the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and the importance of resistance
When it comes to stopping Trump, petitions aren’t going to do it.
When it comes to stopping Trump, petitions aren’t going to do it
Once Syriza is an established party with a firm majority, it will tend to turn away from the movements. That isn’t a criticism of Syriza, it’s an examination of the political dynamics over time