Alternative News and Information. en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ Copyright 2012 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story/155484/ehrenreich%3A_how_corporations_and_local_governments_rob_the_poor_blind/ The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators. Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -a35eecb35b444d4abee26ea2a0916aff http://www.alternet.org/story/154571/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_how_i_discovered_the_truth_about_poverty/ Prevailing attitudes towards poverty blame the victim. Here's why that's so wrong. Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -82d1fc521098d1c3c9c6a530baa68ec2 http://www.alternet.org/story/153452/ehrenreich%3A_the_truth_exposed_by_occupy_shows_that_the_real_elites_are_the_thieves_of_the_1%2C_not_the_liberals_of_conservative_myth/ For decades, conservatives have generated antipathy towards a so-called "liberal elite." Occupy helped America discover the 1% and their crimes. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation and TomDispatch.com -5b129a1926832f5ff8af77a7fcbf655f http://www.alternet.org/story/152837/how_homelessness_became_an_occupy_wall_street_issue/ The Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover what homeless people have known all along--that most ordinary activities are illegal when performed in American streets. Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -b4927c69b75c15ee6833526dc37959aa http://www.alternet.org/story/152003/shocking_examples_of_how_we%27ve_turned_poverty_into_a_crime_in_america/ "When you leave the relative safety of the middle class, you might as well have given up your citizenship and taken residence in a hostile nation." Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -aceee3549be1acca49d7ad2c10e3b2af http://www.alternet.org/story/151945/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_america%27s_tragic_decline_--_resistance_bursts_out_all_over_the_world%2C_while_we_do_nothing_to_fight_corporate_takeover/ Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the sorry state of the American economy and how it impacts real people. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Democracy Now! -4e062ec422f253d260e06fd4adca0de2 http://www.alternet.org/story/151581/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_12%2C000_drones%2C_lethal_cyborg_insects%2C_see-shoot_robots_--_how_machines_are_taking_over_war/ How far will the automation of war and the substitution of autonomous robots for human fighters go? Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -685d8ec2b61f4f87d96da53046b2ee27 http://www.alternet.org/story/150766/wal-mart_--_it%27s_alive%21_how_the_company_is_terrorizing_the_country_with_its_corporate_%27personhood%27/ If Wal-Mart is a person, as per the Supreme Court, it's a behemoth terrorizing the countryside. But when it comes to workers' rights, it remains curiously immune from lawsuits. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, The American Prospect -2c58d4724efe17135a063eb38bbb2ab1 http://www.alternet.org/story/147882/what_should_lefties_do_in_these_revolutionary_times/ The role of the left should not be to uphold or defend a government increasingly at odds with the interests of the people, but to change it, drastically and from the ground up. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation -196570bfe4c5899e6ea26ac6c0eb3e7b http://www.alternet.org/story/146940/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_why_forced_positive_thinking_is_a_total_crock/ Positive psychology -- forced optimism -- is actually quite Calvinist, putting happiness to work as a means to an end. Thu, 20 May 2010 08:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Psychotherapy Networker -9d719b1ee8f72252fc0a18e5d1dec015 http://www.alternet.org/story/144320/ehrenreich%3A_the_pink-ribbon_breast_cancer_cult/ What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -41bfe4cdf93438c03561e495cbc9894b http://www.alternet.org/story/143712/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_why_your_children_may_not_get_a_swine_flu_shot_before_they_need_it/ Too much faith in private enterprise has left us open to a flu epidemic. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -65ff033c10dc13c573560e545cb81648 http://www.alternet.org/story/143260/ridiculous_study_blames_feminism_for_non-existent_%27happiness_gap%27_between_men_and_women_/ Much-discussed study claims that women are more depressed relative to men in recent decades, when it actually suggests that neither marriage nor children make women happy. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com -643d458e99523d88dc28fd319debfb91 http://www.alternet.org/story/142075/is_it_now_a_crime_to_be_poor/ If you're living on the streets, engaging in the biological necessities of life -- like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering -- will get you in jail. Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times -d6985e7b310bbe82c86e37e2b07eff0b http://www.alternet.org/story/141825/the_economic_fallout_has_decimated_the_black_middle_class_/ 40 percent of African Americans will have experienced unemployment or underemployment by 2010 and child poverty will increase to slightly over half. Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -1db91a402a4ff6fd07901be5c7179c82 http://www.alternet.org/story/140442/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_welcome_to_a_dying_industry%2C_j-school_grads/ Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now "part of the working class." Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet -5d39c08d31681b206181a9847df7031d http://www.alternet.org/story/139966/unemployed%2C_and_not_getting_a_job_anytime_soon_why_not_build_a_better_world/ You may be poorer than you've ever been, but you have more free time to express anger and urgency. Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Madison Capital Times -e82c5ca920d9246e5922769a8d383df0 http://www.alternet.org/story/130365/if_we_are_in_the_death_spiral_of_capitalism%2C_can_we_start_using_the_%26quot%3Bs%26quot%3B_word_/ The electroshock paddles of "stimulus" keep being applied, but the capitalist patient isn't waking up. Is it now safe to talk about socialism? Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation -d28693515536f22b9e02a7660208a7d8 http://www.alternet.org/story/128888/how_a_man_was_thrown_into_gitmo_and_tortured_for_clicking_on_my_article/ America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -6b4ca8b104a6bf378ecfa48112acb69d http://www.alternet.org/story/128057/corporate_america%2C_ground_your_jets/ The American taxpayer, reeling from the economic meltdown, doesn't feel like subsidizing lavish jets and bonuses any more. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet -ec97f3e370ad149f0f5108bd99368680 http://www.alternet.org/story/119360/the_nouveau_poor_have_reached_numbers_too_large_to_ignore/ As the poor and the formerly middle-class become the new American majority, will they finally have enough status to get their needs met? Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:01 PST Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -c0d13db86fed77a7806b3555c6d52882 http://www.alternet.org/story/100396/_how_positive_thinking_wrecked_the_economy_/ Besides greed, another habit of mind should get its share of the blame: the delusional optimism of mainstream, all-American, positive thinking. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -34d07a3a317b4dac98ccd759db5cda0d http://www.alternet.org/story/94850/_flight_rage_incident_reveals_the_dark_side_of_osteen%27s_%27prosperity_gospel%27/ The wife of get-rich-now pastor Joel Osteen faces a civil trial that embodies the sense of entitlement of those who preach the gospel of prosperity. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -ce76f75953c25ab32c5ad6b9980803c2 http://www.alternet.org/story/93077/suicide_spreads_as_one_solution_to_the_debt_crisis/ In a culture where credit rating is the key measure of self-worth, the increasing response to huge debts is "Just shoot me!" Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -0387027c84a1a2c5baedda4911424ca7 http://www.alternet.org/story/89127/body_fat_holds_the_key_to_energy_independence/ Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves -- all we need to do is extract it. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:01 PDT Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com -10951b5085b23719d1e4dab78b140dbb