Politics of consumption
Apr. 20th, 2004 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanstinsonI've been working for CPE, http://www.populareconomics.org/
a group of economists who teach economic literacy to activists and educators who are organizing for progressive social change.
Sometime their collective process drives me wild, but in the long run (I first went to work for them in the early nineties), I love them a lot. It's the depth and beauty of the vision of building profoundly different economic systems from the ground up by providing tools and resources for people to develop their own economics analysis, challenging systems of oppression based on class, race, gender and nation. Specific experiences within the organization doesn't always live up to the rhetoric, but there are people involved who amaze and inspire me with their rigor, commitment, persistence and kindness.
A while ago![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firecat and keryx linked to http://aurora.icaap.org/2004Interviews/JulietSchor.html, an article by Julie Schor, one of the founders of CPE. It's about the politics of consumption, and I think it's really good.
a group of economists who teach economic literacy to activists and educators who are organizing for progressive social change.
Sometime their collective process drives me wild, but in the long run (I first went to work for them in the early nineties), I love them a lot. It's the depth and beauty of the vision of building profoundly different economic systems from the ground up by providing tools and resources for people to develop their own economics analysis, challenging systems of oppression based on class, race, gender and nation. Specific experiences within the organization doesn't always live up to the rhetoric, but there are people involved who amaze and inspire me with their rigor, commitment, persistence and kindness.
A while ago
firecat and keryx linked to http://aurora.icaap.org/2004Interviews/JulietSchor.html, an article by Julie Schor, one of the founders of CPE. It's about the politics of consumption, and I think it's really good.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-04-21 05:40 am (UTC)Yeah, and for some weird reason, kind of old school-fat-lesbian-trying-to-keep-things-simple me gets some kind of sneaky pleasure from watching the Bachelor, with its lavish mansions and date extravaganzas and bizarro public courtship rituals. This might be related to the fact that I only get reception for two channels, PBS and ABC, and now the knob on my little old tv is broken, so without rigorous and uncertain efforts with the needle nose pliers, which I keep handy, it's ABC or nothing...Still, something about that show hooks me -- not the current football player, though. Yawn!