[Peace-discuss] A List of credible justice organizations of interest, fighting for justice

[David Green]

I'm glad to see Nancy Fraser assume a less academic and more incisive tone than I have known her to assume in the past, when she endeavored to reconcile post-modernism with leftist politics. Perhaps one blind spot in this good piece is a failure to notice, from her academic perch, the relationship between education (including student debt) and neoliberalism; but she does appropriately critique the meritocracy.
DG 

    On Monday, January 2, 2017 5:59 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
 
 

 "The End of Progressive Neoliberalism” | Nancy Fraser | January 2, 2017A clear and I think quite accurate analysis.<https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-neoliberalism-reactionary-populism-nancy-fraser>"...voters are saying 'No!' to the lethal combination of austerity, free trade, predatory debt, and precarious, ill-paid work that characterize financialized capitalism today."—CGE


On Dec 31, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

Gentlemen, 
Yes, that’s precisely why I neglected to post the full article on this Peace List, I didn’t really find it of value, only the list of those Jeffrey refers to as worthy organizations to support. Sometimes a positive message vs. a negative message has a greater impact.


On Dec 31, 2016, at 07:49, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
'Labor-faker' is a term - the meaning is obvious - from the social struggles of the last century. (It occurs e.g. in Steinbeck’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’)
'Race-faker' and 'eco-faker' (or 'enviro-faker') are contemporary examples of the phenomenon.
It’s a matter of covertly giving up proclaimed principles for other commitments, personal or political. 
Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch and a leading environmental writer, suggests that the organizations of the latter should be called collectively “Gang Green.”
—CGE


On Dec 31, 2016, at 9:15 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
Not to belabor the point, but Jeffrey St. Clair's comments in the rest of this article pertain to the recent debate about SPLC, etc., on this list. He doesn't mention SPLC by name, but it can I think be justifiably lumped in with those establishment non-profits that have essentially aligned themselves with the Democratic Party.
DG

On Saturday, December 31, 2016 7:30 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:



>From Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch

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