DissentPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0013
Justin H. Vassallo
{"title":"The Coming Public Education Crisis","authors":"Justin H. Vassallo","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Of all the social inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the United States, the crisis of public education is among the most intractable. Reports of staffing shortages and declining enrollment—twin problems especially acute for poorer districts contending with slashed budgets and meager classroom resources—have persisted even after the introduction of vaccines for children. With most state funding tied to student enrollment, shrinking attendance means smaller budgets to meet fixed operating costs and fewer funds to attract and retain talented educators. A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends in September 2024.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"66 2 1","pages":"90 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82942227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0014
Sara Herschander
{"title":"Child Care Is an Organizing Tool","authors":"Sara Herschander","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:At La Colmena, a small community worker center in Staten Island with light yellow walls plastered with posters about labor rights, children play while their mothers organize. “I started seeing the need to organize women and to look at the worker holistically, to see that they also have a life, they also have children,” said Yesenia Mata, executive director of La Colmena, which has supported low-wage immigrant workers, especially day laborers, since 2014. And at La Colmena, holistic support means child care. For decades, worker centers have served as a vital source of advocacy for low-wage workers excluded from unions and traditional forms of labor organizing, often because they work in informal sectors not covered by federal labor law. But for working mothers, finding the time for organizing isn’t easy. That’s why in recent years, spurred by the pandemic, worker centers across the country have enacted family-friendly organizing strategies and programming. They are meeting their communities where they need it most.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"46 1","pages":"103 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80928572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0019
Ruqaiyah Zarook
{"title":"A Web of Hidden Wealth","authors":"Ruqaiyah Zarook","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Some conspiracy theorists swear there’s a tiny spider in the top-right corner of the one-dollar bill. The fine lines around the border of the banknote certainly look like a tightly spun web. But you don’t have to believe that U.S. currency contains hidden iconography to see value in the metaphor. Kimberly Kay Hoang’s recent book, Spiderweb Capitalism, uses the image of a spiderweb to evoke the shadowy global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other “fixers” who help illicitly move wealth around the world in order to help the ultra-rich avoid paying taxes.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"35 1","pages":"129 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73335754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0016
Arvin Alaigh
{"title":"Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision","authors":"Arvin Alaigh","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:On January 12, 1971, two FBI agents burst through the doors of the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago to arrest Eqbal Ahmad. A preeminent South Asian activist and analyst of international politics, Ahmad had been charged with participating in a conspiracy to kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and bomb steam tunnels underneath government buildings in Washington, D.C. A vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, Ahmad had found company among the antiwar Catholic Left and grown close to the Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, both priests who had attracted the attention of federal authorities for their peace activism. By 1971, the Berrigans were serving prison sentences for breaking into a draft board office and burning hundreds of draft records. In a letter Philip received while incarcerated, a fellow Catholic activist recounted a recent conversation with Ahmad and others about a potential plan to make a citizen’s arrest of Kissinger. With the letter as evidence, the Justice Department filed charges against a group of antiwar activists that had long been on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s radar.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"1 1","pages":"111 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85911751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0001
Sam Russek
{"title":"Cruelty and Luxury: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at Fifty","authors":"Sam Russek","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Last fall marked the fifty-year anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a surreal, plot-light comedy about the waking anxieties of the upper classes in France. Filmed three years after the May 1968 protests, following President Charles de Gaulle’s shaky triumph over the largest student-led general strike ever attempted in the country, Discreet Charm sees its wealthy sextet drift from soiree to soiree, dreaming of their own embarrassment and demise. The anniversary couldn’t have come at a better time.","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"35 1","pages":"12 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77582971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DissentPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/dss.2023.0026
Sarah Jones, L. Ross
{"title":"\"A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights\": An Interview With Loretta J. Ross","authors":"Sarah Jones, L. Ross","doi":"10.1353/dss.2023.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2023.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51822,"journal":{"name":"Dissent","volume":"12 1","pages":"24 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78315218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}