Category Archives: US

Inequality in America

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read The gap between America’s rich and poor is growing wider, and a new IMF study shows why that inequality is hurting our economy. Nowhere is the divide in America between the haves and have-nots a stark as it is … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future. Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation – despite the latest police crackdown – sent … Continue reading →

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11 Things You Can Do to Help the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read The people protesting on Wall Street are fighting for the unemployed, the uninsured, and those totally insecure in the face of ever increasing financial inequities. These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99 percent of us. Those who are unemployed, … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Contemporary society is commodified society, where the economic transaction has become the dominant way of relating to the culture and artifacts of human civilization, over and above all other means of understanding, with any exceptions being considered merely a … Continue reading →

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