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EXTREME WEALTH AND INCOME media briefing. Powell Memo « The People's Book Project. Class War and the College Crisis: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education The following is the first part of a series of articles, “Class War and the College Crisis.”

Powell Memo « The People's Book Project

By: Andrew Gavin Marshall. Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (whole documentary) @Google: Lawrence Lessig: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. Fixing Democracy. How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule. The Secret of Oz - Winner, Best Docu of 2010 v.1.09.11. Banking Reform. Wealth Inequality in America. Josh Bivens on Failure by Design. Wealth and Income Inequality. Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism. The Occupy Wall Street movement is raising new questions about an emerging form of authoritarianism in the United States, one that threatens the collective survival of vast numbers of people, not through overt physical injury or worse, but through an aggressive assault on social provisions that millions of Americans depend on.

Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism

For those pondering the meaning of the pedagogical and political challenges being addressed by the protesters, it might be wise to revisit a classic essay by German sociologist and philosopher Theodor Adorno titled "Education After Auschwitz," in which he tries to grapple with the relationship between education and morality in light of the horrors perpetrated in the name of authoritarianism and its industrialization of death.[1] To see other articles by Henry A.

Giroux visit The Public Intellectual Project.