Labor/Work
Is It a Raise or a Ripoff?
June 24, 2014
Seattle and San Francisco are both raising their minimum wage. In San Francisco, the average studio will rent for $1,0000 to $2,000 per month. Seattle has similarly high rental rates. Considering that, $15.00 per hour is not that much of a raise.
The Lumpen HAS Stood Up!
May 20, 2014
The people concentrated in US prisons are largely Lumpen. In the classical sense the lumpen-proletariat are a subgroup of the proletariat. In the US this can better be defined as simply the Lumpen class. A “class” simply means people who have a common social or economic relation to society. I.e. in our case, as prisoners we share common relations to the capitalist mode of production--we don’t have a pot to piss in--that currently exists in US society. Our interaction to the means of production results in us existing as Lumpen.
The Story of the Demise of the Black Farmers
April 21, 2014
Not Ghost Town, But Homefulness Town: Re-Views for the REvoluTion
April 14, 2014
At POOR Magazine's indigenous news-making circle we call Community Newsroom this April there was a storming result of women and organizations coming together with holiness to lead the circle. We got visitors from other parts of the country, and what they said confirmed that for some reason, gentrification and mistreatment is going on all over the United States. Our visitors came from Detroit to screen their film, “We Are Not Ghosts.”
Security
The man in the
Uniform is what
I never wanted
To be
But here I am
Standing guard
At a super market
In the not-so
Rich part
Of town
The black and brown
And white and yellow
(And occasional red)
People walk by grabbing
Shopping carts
The badge over
My heart glints
In the artificial
Overhead lights
The economy is bad
Right now, people are
Losing homes, jobs
I guess I’m
Lucky to
Have this job
I thought myself
A revolutionary but
Find myself watching
Folks
Wondering if they’re
Concealing stolen
Merchandise
A black man walks
By with a
Ticket to Work
A majority of the people on SSI and Social Security, including this poverty scholar, want to pay back the community by working regular jobs, and pay back into the tax system and pay back the debt I owe the society.
