Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier is professor of politics and director of the Urban & Environmental Policy program at Occidental College. He is co-author of The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City (University of California Press, 2005) and Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century (2nd edition, University Press of Kansas, 2005) and co-editor of Up Against the Sprawl.

Currently

  • The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game

    October 22, 2008

    Republicans are scapegoating the respected community advocacy group for Wall Street's disastrous lending spree.

  • The Kingston Trio and the Red Scare

    October 14, 2008

    The death of Nick Reynolds, one of the Kingston Trio, last week at 75, provoked fond memories of one era and painful reminders of another.

  • GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote

    September 22, 2008

    A Michigan news site uncovers a GOP plan to deny people caught up in foreclosure proceedings the right to vote in November. Team Obama files suit to stop the practice.

  • Obama's Youth Movement

    September 15, 2008

    Young voters could be the key to victory for Obama and Democratic Congressional candidates. Here's how they're changing the electoral map.

  • From Organizer to Elected Official

    September 8, 2008

    It's not that big a leap from the public service work done by community organizers and the pragmatic work of coalition-building done by elected officials.

  • GOP Mocks Public Service

    September 5, 2008

    Mocking community organizers, the GOP attacks a tradition of collective self-help that's made America a more humane country.

  • Hall of Fame Shut-Out

    July 22, 2008

    A conspiracy of management cronies is blocking 91-year-old union pioneer Marvin Miller from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

  • The History of Hope

    February 19, 2008

    Voters drawn to Barack Obama are often criticized as naive. But appeals to our collective hope for a more decent society are core to the American experience.

2007

  • Progressive Jews Organize

    September 13, 2007

    A new wave of grassroots Jewish activism is emerging around issues like housing, healthcare and education.

  • Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later

    July 17, 2007

    In the summer of 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, and scores of other US cities exploded in racial violence. Forty years later, the impact is still palpable.

  • Living-Wage Victory in LA

    February 5, 2007

    Low-wage workers in hotels near Los Angeles International Airport are the latest to benefit from the city's living-wage law, riding a wave of considerable political momentum.

2006

  • Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor

    June 1, 2006

    The University of California has thrown its weight behind an antisweatshop initiative on campus logowear, proof that conscientious consumers can humanize the forces of global capitalism.

  • Why Mine Deaths Are Up

    May 25, 2006

    The May 20 mine disaster presents more evidence that the Bush Administration places miners in peril with budget cuts, regulatory rollbacks and industry-friendly appointees.

2005

  • Students Confront Sweatshops

    November 9, 2005

    With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.

  • Can a City Be Progressive?

    June 15, 2005

    An effective progressive movement must start in cities.

2004

2003

  • A Watershed Strike

    October 23, 2003

    The retail food workers strike in California may be the first in a series of battles that could shape the future of labor-management relations throughout the US.

  • Lobbying for Peace

    February 10, 2003

2002

2000

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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