Peter Dreier: recent report sponsored by bank reform groups reveals that if banks lowered the principal balance on all underwater mortgages to their current market value, it would pump over $70 billion per year back into the economy.
Is Capitalism on Trial?
January 29, 2012 By
Peter Dreier: The high unemployment rate among today’s youth, and the enormous increase in debt owed by college students and recent graduates, has something to do with their growing doubts about capitalism. So does their uncertainty about their own future and the country’s future.
Gingrich Distorts Food Stamp Facts
January 7, 2012 By
With one statement on Thursday, Newt Gingrich, who constantly reminds voters about his past as a college professor, managed to mangle the facts while resorting to old-fashioned racist stereotypes to gain votes. With his poll numbers sinking, and his presidential campaign desperate, Gingrich told a crowd at a senior citizens center in Plymouth, New Hampshire, “I’m prepared, [...]
Occupy Our Homes: The Next Stage
December 6, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: Perhaps because so many Occupiers have recently been evicted from their encampments in cities across the country, they have found common cause with the growing number of American families facing foreclosure.
Will Occupy Wall Street Be Co-opted?
October 11, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: Too many lefties view “co-optation” as failure. I disagree. The success of every radical movement in American history has occurred when it is co-opted by the forces of reform.
Victory! Transforming Occupy Wall Street From a Moment to a Movement
October 7, 2011 By
California Homeowners Fight Foreclosures
September 28, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: Rose Gudiel is on the front lines of a growing protest movement to stop banks from foreclosing on families victimized by the economic crisis and abusive banking practices.
Protests? Yes. Riots? No.
September 20, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: Riots occur when people are hopeless. Civil disobedience takes place when people are hopeful — when people believe not only that things should be different but also that they can be different.
Prospects for Progressive Politics
July 6, 2011 By
Mayors to Obama: Bring War Dollars Home
June 23, 2011 By
Banks Should Pay for the Foreclosure Crisis
May 5, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: It doesn’t make sense to make severe cuts to state and local budgets only to allow Wall Street banks and their overpaid CEOs to drain billions more from our states.
Murals Battle and Basic Rights
April 2, 2011 By
Peter Dreier: Who could have predicted that a mural in Maine would become the latest battleground in the war of ideas, money, and power triggered by America’s right wing forces, including the Tea Party, Fox News, the Republican Party, and big business?
The Fire Last Time
March 28, 2011 By
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