The Middle Class, Too, Is Keeping Poor Kids Back, U.K. Study Finds

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 28, 2015 A report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission in the United Kingdom found that wealthier parents hoard the best opportunities for their own children, ensuring that smarter kids who are financially disadvantaged stay put in the socioeconomic hierarchy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Israeli Soldiers: ‘When the Cannons Fire, No Criticism May Be Heard’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 26, 2014 Fifty reservists in the Israeli military -- the majority of them women -- have written an open letter expressing opposition to the institution's discriminatory culture and policies, the current operation in Gaza, and the militarization of their society. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

America’s Biggest Crisis: The Economy Is Rigged for the Wealthiest

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Jan 26, 2014 We owe it to MLK to carry his torch and create an economy for all. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Year Six of Hope and Change

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jan 21, 2014 It was a bittersweet briefing that told us exactly where the Obama administration finds itself at the dawn of its sixth year. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Tasks of The People-Powered Movement for 2014

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Jan 10, 2014 In this stage of America's current social-political movement, which could take many years, our primary task is to build national consensus through broad and deep grass-roots organizing. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Throwing Up for Peace

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 2, 2012 The sad fact is that all traditional modes of dissent, whether they're protest marches or boycotts or sit-ins, must ultimately fail because they are generally powerless to prevent their own inception. What does that mean? The sad fact is that all traditional modes of dissent, whether they're protest marches or boycotts or sit-ins, must ultimately fail because they are generally powerless to prevent their own inception. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

American Social Mobility Ain’t What It Used to Be

Staff / Truthdig Jan 6, 2012 This will hardly be news to many, but The New York Times weighed in Wednesday about the American dream being harder to achieve for those occupying the lower socioeconomic levels of society than either their wealthier contemporaries or their counterparts from past eras. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

OWS: The Start of Something Big

Staff / Truthdig Nov 19, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement isn't just some lefty rejoinder to the tea party, even though the two political phenomena have been subject to comparison over the last two months, but at least one prominent tea partyer joins a host of scholars and analysts in suggesting that OWS is about far more than (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Protest Planet: How a Neoliberal Shell Game Created an Age of Activism

Juan Cole / Truthdig Nov 13, 2011 If you are wondering why outraged young people around the globe are chanting such similar slogans and using such similar tactics, it is because they have seen more clearly than their elders through the neoliberal shell game. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

OWS: A Visual Primer

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2011 Social movements come with their own unique aesthetics, often drawing raw material from past protest traditions and performances, as well as from the font of plenty that is popular culture, and repurposing it in inventive new ways for the cause at hand. The movement that began with Occupy Wall Street has brought a bounty … (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )