Other America Archive

0February 16, 2012
I Love Starbucks.. But I Will BOYCOTT Starbucks Until the Company Takes a Stand Against Guns ..

Gun Reform Advocates Boycott Starbucks Seattle, Washington has been my home-base for all of this century, and Starbucks has been part of my daily routine throughout my time there. I…
0January 29, 2012
It is a basic fact of the moral universe that girls and boys should not be sold for sex

It is a basic fact of the moral universe that girls and boys should not be sold for sex. Yet we live in a time that confounds this central truth….
0December 22, 2011
Let’s Get Away From It All .. Consumer spending motivated out of fear and escapism ..

Need a last minute Christmas gift for that someone who “has everything,” or that “impossible to gift” family member or friend? This might be your answer this season. New Escapologist…
0November 24, 2011
Thanksgiving .. National Day of Mourning

The UAINE (United American Indians of New England) has a National Day of Mourning every Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock. There is a monument. http://www.uaine.org/ The monument is somewhat obscured. It…
0November 22, 2011
Poverty in the Other America and The Privatization of Prisons

Hungarian political economist Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation in 1944 which rebuked conservatives for privatizing common property resources. He wrote that “ .. allowing the market mechanism to be…