Tag Archives: debt

The Rolling Jubilee launches Thursday with a telethon, and ambitious plans to buy and forgive millions of dollars in debt

By Mark | November 13, 2012

One of the beautiful things about the Occupy movement is how it keeps evolving. What started as a sea of wiggly fingers in a New York City park, has, in a relatively short period of time, spread across the country, adapting as it does so, in order to meet the needs of local communities. Here [...]

Posted in Economics | Also tagged 99%, banking, bold initiatives, Capitalism, David Rees, Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual, Hari Kondabolu, instant gratification, Janeane Garofalo, Jeff Mangum, John Cameron Mitchell, Lizz Winstead, Occupy Wall Street, Strike Debt, telethon, The People's Bank of Occupy, The People’s Bailout, vampirism | 26 Comments

Occupy Ypsi Free School this Saturday at EMU

By Mark | April 9, 2012

I took these photos on Water Street a couple of days ago, where some folks had gathered to make art and discuss, among other things, the teach-in that’s scheduled to happen this Saturday at EMU. Here, for those of you not adverse to the idea of getting out of your homes, meeting strangers, and encountering [...]

Posted in Photographs, Ypsilanti | Also tagged "Washtenaw Foreclosure Defense, Beth Currans, commons, dismantling of public education, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, events, foreclosure resistance, free school, Greg Pratt, Ian Robinson, immigrant rights, international youth movements, Jeff Clark, Johnny Lupinacci, labor, local food, local meetings, meeting people, Neoliberalism, Nicole Carter, Occupy Ypsilanti, Peter Linebaugh, propaganda, public education, reproductive justice, resist, resistance, Rob Halpern, Robin Lucy, SEPE, Stefanie Stauffer, Students for Ethical and Participatory Education, teach-in, Water Street, Will Daniels, women's health, women's rights | 6 Comments

How much has Obama added to the debt, anyway?

By Mark | February 1, 2012

We’ve talked a lot over the years about how much of our current national debt is directly attributable to the administration of our most recent President Bush (I wanted to refer to him “George Bush the Lesser,” but I thought that someone might accuse me of being being less than fair and balanced), but I [...]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Americans for Tax Reform, Bush tax cuts, George Bush, George Bush the Lesser, Grover Norquist, Iraq war, national debt, Obama, Ronald Reagan, tax the rich, war for oil | 8 Comments

Peter Thiel questions the value of higher education in America… Does he have a point?

By Mark | May 25, 2011

Peter Thiel, one of the cofounders of PayPal, is credited in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education with saying, essentially, that higher education may be overvalued in America. Theil, who today announced the names of the 24 students who would be dropping out of college to accept $100,000 cash awards as part of his new eponymous [...]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged entrepreneurship, higher education, higher education bubble, James O'Neill, Newt Gingrich, Peter Thiel, student loans, the value of a college education, Thiel Fellowship | 42 Comments

Why not cut the military budget?

By Mark | October 6, 2010

Fiscal responsibility seems to be all the rage these days. Or, at least that’s what Tea Partiers claim to be motivated by, right? They tell us that it’s high time that we get serious, tighten our belts, and cut “big government” to the bone, before the inevitable happens, and the country goes careening over the [...]