Argomento: Stati Uniti
Tra eurocrisi e crisi globale: allargare l’inquadratura
di RAFFAELE SCIORTINO
A partire dalla scorsa estate la crisi globale ha investito pesantemente i debiti sovrani europei e l’Italia.
Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility
by CLAIRE TANCONS
While some commentators and journalists have dismissed Occupy Wall Street as carnival, lawmakers and police officers did not miss the point.
Django, a arte pós-colonial de Tarantino
1. Ni olvido ni perdòn. Nem esquecimento nem perdão. Era um slogan político na Argentina dos anos 1970, dirigido contra os militares responsáveis pelo golpe de 1955, que depôs o governo democrático de Perón. O slogan pode ser útil pra compreender o sentido difundido por Django livre a respeito da escravidão e seu papel na história dos Estados Unidos: é impossível esquecer, é impossível perdoar.
OWS: Occupy Everything
di PAOLO CARPIGNANO
Forse era nell’aria: l’aria di primavera dei paesi arabi, o l’aria della Puerta del Sol di Madrid, o del Rothchild Boulevard di Tel Aviv, tutti avvenimenti che presagivano un anno caldo a livello globale.
Insolvent Workers of the World
Intervista ad ANDREW ROSS – di ANNA CURCIO e GIGI ROGGERO
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, Don’t Pay. Già in questo slogan – lanciato dalla campagna “Occupy Student Debt” – c’è tutta o quasi la potenza di Occupy Wall Street (OWS):
Phase Two: Occupy Wall Street on November 17
by JASON READ
Even if it were to disappear tomorrow, Occupy Wall Street would have already scored a massive victory. It has fundamentally altered one of the dominant narratives that underlies the majority political and economic thought in this country
What is Occupy Wall Street? The history of leaderless movements
by HEATHER GAUTNEY
Occupy Wall Street has arrived. Facebook is all-aflutter, and Twitter is all-atweeter, as news of “occupations” and clashes with the powers-that-be spread like wildfire around the country.
Da che parte stai? Il sindacato dei trasporti con Occupy Wall Street
Intervista a STEVE DOWNS (Transit Workers Union di New York)
di ANNA CURCIO e GIGI ROGGERO
The Economy and Its Limits
di ALEX GOUREVITCH
John Stuart Mill once argued that “the laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths,” while on the other hand “the distribution of wealth…depends on the laws and customs of society.”
The Debt-deal, or, the Chickens of Third-Way New Democracy Come Home to Roost
by ALEX GOUREVITCH
Readers know the details: $1 trillion cuts, $1.5 more through a supercommittee with a trigger if they can’t agree, and the further possibility, by the end of 2012, that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy sunset.
Obama dopo Osama
di RAFFAELE SCIORTINO
Il discorso di Obama del 19 maggio sul Medio Oriente[1] – a due anni da quello programmatico del Cairo – è utile per fare il punto della politica estera statunitense all’indomani dell’eliminazione di Osama bin Laden e nel mezzo dell’aggressione alla Libia.
For What We Will: May Day in Portland Maine
by NIGEL STEVENS
As we made a few last minute preparations that morning, everything felt so wonderfully familiar; it was like returning home