Stories by Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is an associate editor at AlterNet, a rabblerouser and frequent Twitterer. You can follow her at @seasonothebitch.
Posted on Feb 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet
When state after state slashes education dollars, we see what matters to them--and where they spend while cutting schools tells us even more.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Santorum's success in the Midwest has come through a combination of race and class-based grievances as well as his appeal to social conservatives.
Posted on Feb 8, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Right-wingers claim Obama and Democrats across the country are waging a war on religion -- and of course, conservatives are the civilian casualties.
Posted on Feb 7, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Two progressive champions are facing off for one seat in Congress. What's a voter to do?
Posted on Feb 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Jan Brewer has decided to get in on the union-busting action, introducing a bill that makes Ohio's and Wisconsin's attacks on public workers look mild.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
A new study on government employees' earnings has the Right buzzing -- and some progressive pundits repeating the myth that government workers are "overpaid."
Posted on Jan 26, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The B of A death watch continues as a new petition calls for federal regulators to dismantle the big bank before it implodes.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Unless we act now, the current $1 trillion student debt bubble is going to look small in 18 years—and the only ones able to go to college will be the children of the 1%.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012, Source: AlterNet
USAS has been fighting steadily for workers' rights even when the issue wasn't front-page news--and they're helping spearhead a new movement for economic justice.
Posted on Jan 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Sam Mayfield is finishing a documentary on the fight for union rights in Wisconsin this past year, and she tells AlterNet her story.
Posted on Jan 4, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Teachers, parents and activists are organizing to fight standardized testing in schools -- and the big companies that profit from the tests.
Posted on Jan 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
With a new year comes new chances for change--and we have some guesses as to where we'll see some exciting actions in 2012.
Posted on Dec 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Members of Congress have only gotten richer over the last 25 years, while their constituents have gotten poorer.
Posted on Dec 26, 2011, Source: AlterNet
This year saw working people around the world begin to stand up and fight back. Ten organizers share their most inspiring moments from the U.S.'s year of action.
Posted on Dec 22, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Savvy organizer and big thinker Stephen Lerner talks to AlterNet about how to take power back from Wall Street.
Posted on Dec 20, 2011, Source: AlterNet
After the Obama administration's decision to overrule the FDA on the morning-after pill, activists are asking yet again, what went wrong?
Posted on Dec 15, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Though Congress has averted government shutdown, working people and the unemployed are still waiting for help.
Posted on Dec 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Is the narrative around taxes finally shifting? Thanks to heavy public pressure, Governors Cuomo and Brown propose taxing their states' ultrarich.
Posted on Dec 6, 2011, Source: AlterNet
AT&T withdrew its application from the FCC to take over T-Mobile. So is the merger dead? And if so, who killed it?
Posted on Dec 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Mayors and police around the country have pretended public health is the reason for shutting down Occupy protests, but their actions belie their words.
Posted on Nov 30, 2011, Source: AlterNet
With the nation's (and the world's) focus back on Wall Street, the possibility of a financial transaction tax is looking more likely.
Posted on Nov 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
After major crises at hierarchical institutions from Penn State to the Catholic Church, it's time to give the Occupy movement's horizontal structure a chance.
Posted on Nov 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet
As the student movement grows and rallies around the country, we look at the lenders raking in cash off the backs of the U.S.'s students.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The 99 percent showed up around the city to stand in solidarity with the evicted occupiers and express their support for a growing movement.
Posted on Nov 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Just days after the brutal raid on the Occupy movement's home base in Liberty Plaza, a huge day of action is planned to take the movement to another level.
Posted on Nov 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
In the past couple of weeks, Occupy Wall Street has spurred dedicated education activists into some of the most innovative and inspiring actions.
Posted on Nov 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Around the country, in groups and individually, Americans voted with their dollars this week to move away from the banks that caused the economic crisis.
Posted on Nov 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
What does it mean to stop cooperating with the banks? Some activists, organizers, and technologists think the answer might be mass refusal to pay debts.
Posted on Nov 1, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Are the sustained protests in Manhattan's Financial District and around the country getting to the wealthy bankers who are being targeted?
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
We've ranked the banks based on how shamelessly they game the political process through lobbying, revolving door politics and campaign donations.
Posted on Oct 19, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Tuesday night, Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to give New York Governor Cuomo the message: Stand with the people, not the 1%.
Posted on Oct 17, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff talks to AlterNet's Sarah Jaffe about building a better Internet, the job-free future, and how Occupy Wall Street could save us.
Posted on Oct 13, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Free health care, a sanitation team, a public library, solar power, and free childcare are just a few of the services the Occupy Wall Street protesters are providing.
Posted on Oct 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Despite another clash with police, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain support as unions and community groups march in solidarity.
Posted on Sep 27, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Over a week in, and despite mass arrests, the protesters are still camped out around the corner from Wall Street, and the Internet is watching.
Posted on Sep 23, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Will Democrats take back Congress? Here are five candidates worth keeping an eye on as we get closer to Election 2012.
Posted on Sep 21, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Student loans have been going up since the recession began--and now defaults are up too. Something has to be done, but what?
Posted on Sep 16, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The underground economy isn't just drugs and sex work.
Posted on Sep 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Do we have it backward when we call for job creation? Could we instead radically rethink our economy to benefit everyone?
Posted on Sep 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The latest WikiLeaks release comes with a bunch of accusations and confusion.
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