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Down and Out in Discount America |
by Liza Featherstone
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20 Dec 2004
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The invention of the "consumer" identity has been an important part of a long process of eroding workers' power, and it's one reason working people now have so little power against business. According to the social historian Stuart Ewen, in the early years of mass production, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, modernizing capitalism sought to turn people who thought of themselves primarily as "workers" into "consumers." Business elites wanted people to dream not of satisfying work and egalitarian societies--as many did at that time--but of the beautiful things they could buy with their paychecks.
Business was quite successful in this project, which influenced much early advertising and continued throughout the twentieth century. In addition to replacing the "worker," the "consumer" has also effectively displaced the citizen. |
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Petition Calling For The Investigation Of Cyber Warfare By The Pentagon Against American Citizens and Political Organizations |
by SD
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19 Dec 2004
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The American military is waging cyber warfare upon dissident websites. Please sign the petition calling for an investigation. |
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Bush not telling truth about Social Security |
by Jay Birde
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19 Dec 2004
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Social Security is a wonderful system that provides a guaranteed retirement income to millions of workers. It also provides disability benefits to workers and survivor benefits to their children if the worker dies at an early age.
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AARP Poll Shows Most Support Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana |
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18 Dec 2004
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"The use of medical marijuana applies to many older Americans who may benefit from cannabis," said Ed Dwyer, an editor at AARP The Magazine, which will report on the issue in its March-April issue, scheduled to appear in late January. |
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BTL:Abuse of Iraqi and Afghan Detainees Linked to US Training in Torture at... |
by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
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18 Dec 2004
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...Army's School of the Americas ~ Interview with Kathy Kelly, founding member, Voices in the Wilderness conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus |
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