On AlterNet: oppression

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "oppression"

How Ayn Rand's Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic

George Monbiot, The Guardian. March 7, 2012.

Rand's psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats.

How the Occupy Movement Helped Americans Move Beyond Denial and Depression to Action

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. December 5, 2011.

The spirit of liberation psychology--a tradition from Latin American protest movements--has been embraced by U.S. Occupy participants.

How Our Empire Crushes Opposition

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. February 7, 2011.

The corporate state does not have a Politburo. It does not dress its Homeland Security agents in jackboots. There is no raving dictator.

On Oppresion and White Christian Heterosexual Men (First in a Series of Nasty Posts)

Echidne of the SnakesNovember 9, 2008.

To expect that the oppressed are saintly creatures is really very insulting.

Think '70s Feminists Are Out of Touch? Not So Fast.

Heidi Schnakenberg, AlterNet. July 11, 2008.

A lesson from second-wave feminism: Women will continue to be oppressed unless they stop prioritizing other causes over their own.

Palin Idiotically Says \'Obama is Bringing us Back to Before the Civil War,\' Throws Pity Party for GOP

Steve M., December 31, 1969.