ABSTRACT:Of all the social inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the United States, the crisis of public education is among the most intractable. Reports of staffing shortages and declining enrollment—twin problems especially acute for poorer districts contending with slashed budgets and meager classroom resources—have persisted even after the introduction of vaccines for children. With most state funding tied to student enrollment, shrinking attendance means smaller budgets to meet fixed operating costs and fewer funds to attract and retain talented educators. A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends in September 2024.
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ABSTRACT:At La Colmena, a small community worker center in Staten Island with light yellow walls plastered with posters about labor rights, children play while their mothers organize. “I started seeing the need to organize women and to look at the worker holistically, to see that they also have a life, they also have children,” said Yesenia Mata, executive director of La Colmena, which has supported low-wage immigrant workers, especially day laborers, since 2014. And at La Colmena, holistic support means child care. For decades, worker centers have served as a vital source of advocacy for low-wage workers excluded from unions and traditional forms of labor organizing, often because they work in informal sectors not covered by federal labor law. But for working mothers, finding the time for organizing isn’t easy. That’s why in recent years, spurred by the pandemic, worker centers across the country have enacted family-friendly organizing strategies and programming. They are meeting their communities where they need it most.
{"title":"Child Care Is an Organizing Tool","authors":"Sara Herschander","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:At La Colmena, a small community worker center in Staten Island with light yellow walls plastered with posters about labor rights, children play while their mothers organize. “I started seeing the need to organize women and to look at the worker holistically, to see that they also have a life, they also have children,” said Yesenia Mata, executive director of La Colmena, which has supported low-wage immigrant workers, especially day laborers, since 2014. And at La Colmena, holistic support means child care. For decades, worker centers have served as a vital source of advocacy for low-wage workers excluded from unions and traditional forms of labor organizing, often because they work in informal sectors not covered by federal labor law. But for working mothers, finding the time for organizing isn’t easy. That’s why in recent years, spurred by the pandemic, worker centers across the country have enacted family-friendly organizing strategies and programming. They are meeting their communities where they need it most.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"46 1","pages":"103 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80928572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Some conspiracy theorists swear there’s a tiny spider in the top-right corner of the one-dollar bill. The fine lines around the border of the banknote certainly look like a tightly spun web. But you don’t have to believe that U.S. currency contains hidden iconography to see value in the metaphor. Kimberly Kay Hoang’s recent book, Spiderweb Capitalism, uses the image of a spiderweb to evoke the shadowy global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other “fixers” who help illicitly move wealth around the world in order to help the ultra-rich avoid paying taxes.
摘要:一些阴谋论者声称，一美元纸币的右上角有一只小蜘蛛。钞票边缘周围的细纹看起来就像一张织得很紧的网。但你不必相信美元包含隐藏的图像，就能看出这个比喻的价值。金伯利·凯·黄(Kimberly Kay Hoang)的新书《蜘蛛网资本主义》(Spiderweb Capitalism)用蜘蛛网的形象来描绘一个由律师、会计师、行政管理人员和其他“中间人”组成的阴暗的全球网络，这些人帮助在全球范围内非法转移财富，以帮助超级富豪避税。
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ABSTRACT:On January 12, 1971, two FBI agents burst through the doors of the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago to arrest Eqbal Ahmad. A preeminent South Asian activist and analyst of international politics, Ahmad had been charged with participating in a conspiracy to kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and bomb steam tunnels underneath government buildings in Washington, D.C. A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, Ahmad had found company among the antiwar Catholic Left and grown close to the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, both priests who had attracted the attention of federal authorities for their peace activism. By 1971, the Berrigans were serving prison sentences for breaking into a draft board office and burning hundreds of draft records. In a letter Philip received while incarcerated, a fellow Catholic activist recounted a recent conversation with Ahmad and others about a potential plan to make a citizen’s arrest of Kissinger. With the letter as evidence, the Justice Department filed charges against a group of antiwar activists that had long been on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s radar.
摘要:1971年1月12日，两名联邦调查局特工冲进芝加哥阿德莱·史蒂文森研究所的大门，逮捕了伊克巴尔·艾哈迈德。艾哈迈德是一位杰出的南亚活动家和国际政治分析家，他被指控参与了绑架国家安全顾问亨利·基辛格和炸毁华盛顿特区政府大楼地下蒸汽隧道的阴谋。艾哈迈德直言不讳地反对越南战争，他在反战的天主教左派中找到了伙伴，并与贝里根兄弟菲利普和丹尼尔走得很近。这两位牧师都因他们的和平行动而引起了联邦当局的注意。到1971年，贝里根一家因闯入征兵局办公室并烧毁了数百份征兵记录而被判入狱。在菲利普被监禁期间收到的一封信中，一位天主教活动人士讲述了他最近与艾哈迈德等人的谈话，讨论了一个可能的计划，即以公民身份逮捕基辛格。以这封信为证据，司法部对一群反战活动人士提出指控，这些活动人士长期以来一直受到联邦调查局局长胡佛(J. Edgar Hoover)的关注。
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ABSTRACT:Last fall marked the fifty-year anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a surreal, plot-light comedy about the waking anxieties of the upper classes in France. Filmed three years after the May 1968 protests, following President Charles de Gaulle’s shaky triumph over the largest student-led general strike ever attempted in the country, Discreet Charm sees its wealthy sextet drift from soiree to soiree, dreaming of their own embarrassment and demise. The anniversary couldn’t have come at a better time.
摘要:去年秋天是路易斯Buñuel的《资产阶级的谨慎魅力》问世50周年，这是一部超现实主义的轻情节喜剧，讲述了法国上层阶级清醒的焦虑。影片拍摄于1968年5月抗议活动的三年后，当时法国总统戴高乐(Charles de Gaulle)在该国有史以来规模最大的学生领导的总罢工中取得了不稳定的胜利。影片《谨慎的魅力》(Discreet Charm)看到了富有的六人从一个晚会辗转到另一个晚会，梦想着自己的尴尬和灭亡。周年纪念来得正是时候。
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{"title":"\"A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights\": An Interview With Loretta J. Ross","authors":"Sarah Jones, L. Ross","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"12 1","pages":"24 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78315218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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