by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…
Capitalism
Short Takes • April 22, 2016
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“Oh, Hillary” Revisited By Carol Hanisch Listening to Hillary Clinton attack Cuba for human rights violations in an attempt to redbait Bernie Sanders during the March 9 Democratic Party Presidential Primary debate in Miami took me back to her similar…
“A Special Place in Hell”: The Political Record of Hillary Clinton
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by Carol Hanisch “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – Madeline Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) appointed by President Bill Clinton, hectoring women to support Hillary Clinton for U.S.…
Short Takes • March 12, 2016: Single Payer Health
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Once in a while we run across an article that simply tells it like it is in language we all can understand. We’re providing a link to such an article by Vincent Navarro that lays out the case for a…
Ros Baxandall on Day Care
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SHORT TAKES: February 5, 2016 Introducing a new MEETING GROUND feature We often have links or brief comments that we want to share with our readers that do not really fit an article format. We will try to post at…
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
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by Carol Hanisch PART II: Who Benefits from Housework? In a city of 500,000 people, containing, say 100,000 working and lower middle class homes, 100,000 women are planning how to get the windows washed, the curtains cleaned, the clothing washed…
Speaking Truth AGAINST Power
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In an excellent article “Journalism as Subversion” on Truthdig, Chris Hedges, himself a journalist for major newspapers for many years, contends that the best journalism comes from dissidents, not professional journalists. He asserts that global capitalism’s assault is not only…
Leaving Liberal Feminism
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A feminist we know, Rosita Libre de Marulanda, sent us a link to a blog post called “Leaving Liberal Feminism” and we want to share it here at Meeting Ground. The author, Kate Leigh, recounts her move from liberal (post-modern)…
Vaga De Totes: Women Strike in Spain/Catalonia
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Proclaiming “Women move the world. Stop now! All on strike!” women took over the streets in Barcelona on October 22 demanding an end to the “social, economic and legal policies that severely undermine our rights, dignity and freedom.” The day began…
Hating the Rich
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By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz EDITOR’S NOTE: The following appeared on Counterpunch and MRzine sites in March 2007. We think it’s worth repeating given the further consolidation of power by the rich in the past seven years. “The rich are not…