Podcast appearances and mentions of Frances Fox Piven

Andrew For America presents an overview of why he believes that America will soon fall, just as it has been planned by the power elite. He talks about how the government gaslights us, and how members of the "big club" think and act as if they are above the law. Andrew also discusses a plan known as the "Cloward-Piven" strategy, which was a plan developed by two sociologists that involves flooding the American welfare system with immigrants on a level which would destroy the system's ability to facilitate its purpose. This would lead to a "leveling of the playing field" for all peoples of all races and ethnic groups so that they could finally achieve equality of outcomes here in America...allegedly. Andrew also reads a book review of the book, "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government" by David Talbot. Andrew plays clips from David Wilcock, Jordan Maxwell, Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman talking to Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Andy Frisella, and others to help illustrate his points. The song selection is the song, "Slave Away" by the band Personal Crisis. Visit allegedlyrecords.com and check out all of the amazing punk rock artists! Visit soundcloud.com/andrewforamerica1984 to check out Andrew's music! Like and Follow The Politics & Punk Rock Podcast PLAYLIST on Spotify!!! Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Y4rumioeqvHfaUgRnRxsy... politicsandpunkrockpodcast.com https://linktr.ee/andrewforamerica Watch and learn about these awesome offers for your survival needs from former Afghanistan war veteran, police officer, and citizen journalist, Mr. Teddy Daniels: Operation Blackout Survival Guide: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://internalblackout.com/?a=683&c=434&s1=⁠⁠⁠⁠ Famine Fighter Survival Food Supply: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://foodforthesoul.co/?a=683&c=407&s1=⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Final Famine Survival Food Growing Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://finalfoodprepper.com/?a=683&c=433&s1=⁠⁠⁠⁠ Devils Dollar Currency Survival Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://dbhtrkg.com/?a=683&c=468&s1=⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andrew-foramerica/support

In this episode, we explore the strategy of disruption and talk with one of its leading theorists and practitioners, the legendary scholar and activist Frances Fox Piven. Stephanie and Deepak begin by distinguishing protest from disruption, two types of action that are often confused. They consider famous instances of disruption, like the mass actions on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation that blocked the Dakota Access Pipeline, and lesser-known ones, like the 1975 “Women's Day Off” that helped win equal rights for women in Iceland. They also reflect on how overdogs use disruption, citing the “Brooks Brothers Riot,” a protest by GOP operatives that may have tipped the 2000 election and presaged the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Then, in a wide-ranging interview, Frances Fox Piven argues that “the most important achievement of elites is to persuade people that they don't have power.” But, she explains,  ordinary people in complex societies have enormous “potential power,” the power to disrupt by stopping work, breaking the law, or simply refusing to cooperate. Invoking a chapter of history she and her late husband, Richard Coward, helped write, Piven recalls the Welfare Rights Movement, when poor women of color used their disruptive power to get benefits they had been denied and hugely increased the amount of money spent of welfare in the U.S. Frances, Deepak, and Stephanie also discuss the potential for using disruptive power today, the ways that too much organization can stifle movements, and the essential role of exuberance, ecstasy, and even “sexuality” in movement politics.

Deepak and Stephanie welcome listeners and give a preview of some organizers and thinkers who will appear in future episodes: Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party, longtime progressive activist Ilyse Hogue, legendary activist and scholar Frances Fox Piven, and historian Manisha Sinha. You can buy the book and find out more about the show at www.practicalradicals.org

In 1966, two American Sociologists, Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven, outlined a strategy to destroy America by overloading the welfare system by calling upon all poor class people to sign up for welfare in order to bankrupt it. We see now like we've learned from back then that the strategy isn't a forgotten about ideology. Global Organizations like Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum and George Soros' Open Border Foundation among many others are designed to turn the lower class against the upper class and let them destroy each other. Divide and Conquer. Not if we have anything to say about it, Keep That Third Eye Open!10% OFF Orgonite From Isaac! ---> https://oregon-ite.com/?sca_ref=5029405.hji3fNHxUd Rife Machine 10% off!---> https://rifemachine.myshopify.com/?rfsn=7689156.6a9b5cTo find the Meta Mysteries Podcast---> https://open.spotify.com/show/6IshwF6qc2iuqz3WTPz9Wv?si=3a32c8f730b34e79Sign up for our Patreon go to-> Patreon.com/cultofconspiracypodcastTo Sign up for our Rokfin go to --> Rokfin.com/cultofconspiracyFor an A+ Travel Agent, contact Allyn at-- https://www.yourmagicaldestinations.com/allyn.html20% OFF at Cristy's Shop---> Awakeningsofbatonrouge.com (PromoCode: Cult20)Cult Of Conspiracy Linktree ---> https://linktr.ee/cultofconspiracyThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5700337/advertisement

In 1966 a couple of communist sociologists named Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward published their theory of how to destroy America and replace it with a socialistic or communistic form of government. The means to their end was to overburden the bureaucracy by flooding it with welfare recipients. The ensuing chaos and civil unrest would result in the federal government swooping in and making everything right. It turns out they did not think big enough. Their focus on the welfare system alone was way too narrow! Today's Leftists have extended Cloward and Piven's simple scheme to a crisis-around-every-corner strategy. Every day we face another manufactured crisis with the only answer being MORE GOVERNMENT! Show Notes Instagram  |  Truth Social  |  GETTR  |  Twitter  |  GAB  |  Rumble  |  BitChute Cloward Piven Strategy Democratic Party Playbook Exposed - Cloward Piven Strategy Cloward and Piven are Laughing all the Way to the Welfare Agency Playbook of the Democrat Party Cloward and Piven ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grab your Truth Quest Merchandise at The Truth Quest Shirt Factory: With each shirt design there will be an explanation of what to expect from those inquisitive or brave enough to ask you about it. In most cases there are links to podcast episodes that will further deepen your understanding of the importance of each phrase.  We hope you take the challenge of wearing these shirts in public and to family gatherings. Don't worry! You will be equipped with the rhetorical tools to engage in conversation and/or debate.  Good luck! And thanks for supporting the Truth Quest Podcast! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversation at The Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page Order a copy of one of my books, Pritical Thinking, The Proverbs Project, The Termite Effect. The Truth Quest Podcast Patron Page

The Capture of America: How they did it and How we can reverse it?We need reverse engineer the capture of America so we can create America 2.0. How do we become a godly, small government, constitutionally led nation? We can listen to Yeonmi Park further explain the capture of America as she shares her experience at Columbia University in which she says the material taught in her classes was almost identical to North Korean propaganda. In detail, we discuss ideological brainwashing, such as when and why the Left has decided to separate sex, marriage, and children from each other. Many other lies have been perpetrated through this brainwashing including the influences of those like Herbert Marcuse and Frances Fox Piven.What does God's Word say? 1 Corinthians For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,Living to celebrate sin, to spread sin and lies produces chaos; abiding in Christ produces order Episode 1,167 Links:Senate warns of increased crime on Capitol Hill as lawmakers and staff face string of robberies, carjackings; Noting a spike in crime, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms offered tips for those who may be 'confronted by a carjacker with a weapon'39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America; A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.Why Are Progressives Comfortable Decoupling Childrearing from Marriage?The Invention of Teenagers: LIFE and the Triumph of Youth Culture"I went to Columbia University to begin my education in New York City...My professors were saying that every problem that we have in the world right now...is because of greedy capitalism and is because of white men and Western civilization."The Left and ‘Discriminating Tolerance'The Frankfurt School - Herbert Marcuse & Bryan Magee"People Do Have Power": Frances Fox Piven at 90 on Movements & Preserving Democratic Rights4Patriots https://4patriots.com Protect your family with Food kits, solar generators and more at 4Patriots. Use code TODD for 10% off your first purchase. Alan's Soaps https://alanssoaps.com/TODD Use coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price. American Financing https://americanfinancing.net Visit to see what American Financing can do for you or call 866-887-2275 BiOptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/todd Use promo code TODD for 10% off your order. Bonefrog https://bonefrog.us Enter promo code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your subscription. Bulwark Capital http://KnowYourRiskRadio.com Find out how Bulwark Capital Actively Manages risk. Call 866-779-RISK or visit KnowYourRiskRadio.com Patriot Mobile https://patriotmobile.com/herman Get free activation today with offer code HERMAN. Visit or call 878-PATRIOT. SOTA Weight Loss https://sotaweightloss.com SOTA Weight Loss is, say it with me now, STATE OF THE ART! Sound of Freedom https://angel.com/freedom Join the two million and see Sound of Freedom in theaters July 4th. GreenHaven Interactive https://greenhaveninteractive.com Digital Marketing including search engine optimization and website design.

Andrew For America presents the eighth installment of his supercut show, which is an artfully assorted arrangement of clips prepared for you, to illustrate the current status quo, the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times that we are living in. Starring: Professor Richard Wolff, George Carlin, Jim Caviezel, Ken O'Keefe, Shawn Ryan and Buck Sexton, the Pritzger family and Obama, Dr. Michael Yeadon, Alex Azar, the Black Nobility, the Orsini family, Transhumanism/Occult/Freemasons, Andrew Bustamante on CIA mind control developmental stages, Ishtar, Moloch, Baal, Baphomet, King Charles, the WTF files, Eddie Murphy on the Arsenio Hall Show, hip hop artists talking about the dark side of the music industry, Robert Kennedy Jr., John McAfee, Andrew Tate, Alex Jones on Piers Morgan, Graham Hancock, Matt Graham, Thomas Sowell destroys Frances Fox Piven (co-creator of the Cloward-Piven Strategy), the late Grey State filmmaker David Crowley, Klaus Schwab, Roger Morneau, and psychedelic pioneer Danny Goler. Visit altmediaunited.com and check out all the awesome podcasts! Visit allegedlyrecords.com and check out all of the amazing punk rock artists! Visit soundcloud.com/andrewforamerica1984 to check out Andrew's music! Like and Follow The Politics & Punk Rock Podcast PLAYLIST on Spotify!!! Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Y4rumioeqvHfaUgRnRxsy... politicsandpunkrockpodcast.com https://linktr.ee/andrewforamerica

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In May of 1966, two sociologists came up with a plan to use crisis to collapse the system. Their names were Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their first target was to bankrupt New York City by getting everyone they could on the welfare rolls. They new this would eventually overload the system and a few years later NYC went bankrupt. Their strategy had worked. Now the globalists are working to collapse America and the world by using that strategy with open borders, inflation, meaningless wars, the lie of green energy and many other offenses to try and bring about world government.

Esteemed as both a scholar and an activist, she's spent nearly ninety years working for social justice, if you count her first few years, and I do: when she was four, she had a clear (and unpopular) position on the Soviet-Finnish war. She's since revised it. Continuous rethinking—the mark of the true intellectual.

Join Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal for a conversation on revolution in the contemporary era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age explores a series of these upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. In this book launch scholars of and participants in some of these revolutionary upheavals will consider what lessons we can draw from these moments and movements that brought the system to its knees, before it rallied and turned back the tides of sweeping change. Order a copy of the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1653-revolutionary-rehearsals-in-the-neoliberal-age --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Cinzia Arruzza is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the Vice-President of the New School AAUP chapter and the co-author of Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto. She is a member of the editorial board of Spectre Journal. Gareth Dale teaches politics at Brunel University. He is the author of The East German Revolution of 1989. Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a co-author, with Richard A. Cloward, of The Breaking of the American Social Compact; a co-author, with Lorraine C. Minnite and Margaret Groarke, of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters; and the author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism and Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate. She lives in New York City. Sameh Naguib teaches sociology at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on politics in Egypt and the Middle East. He is also a founding member of the Revolutionary Socialist Movement in Egypt. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/OyRXyOXZyv0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

They say the absolute version of this corrupts absolutely... but until you get there, you better be aware of how much POWER you have and put it to good use! This episode features excerpts from "The Kybalion", some girl who is not a fan of Pharrell, professor Frances Fox Piven, ultimate hustler Dame Dash & Archangel Uriel as Flight Boss. The names of the songs & God No Other instrumentals I so eloquently cover are in show notes

In this episode, Professor Frances Fox Piven talks about this unique moment in United States history in which there is an extensive social movement against fascism. While brought to life by a revulsion and anger at police brutality against African American people, it also carries a host of grievances related to the strength of neoliberalism in the United States. Frances talks about the many ways in which collective action and popular power manifest; not just through strikes or the withholding of labor but also the withholding of other forms of cooperation in obeying the rules of our society. Children can refuse to go to school; people can refuse to obey traffic laws. The complexity of our society and its interdependence increases our popular power.She also talks about the deep economic issues stemming from both consumer capitalism and a level deeper, with the love of “stuff” and dependency upon fossil fuels. There is substantial work to be done to create alternatives to the use of fossil fuels when right now entire sections of the country are heavily dependent. The U.S. needs to find its way to a Green New Deal through the disruptive effects of mass movements. Voting and forming non-profits aren't enough to stop some of the most powerful interests in American and world politics. Looking to the past, Occupy Wall Street was a success in that it drew attention where it was needed, and in the present, the current Black Lives Matter movement is taking the next step in demanding action to address spiraling increase in inequality in U.S.With November around the corner, Dr. Piven is counting on the current movement to help with electoral victory in 2020. She calls this an exciting and promising time, with hopes that the active protesting can continue to change the course of policy in the United States and create better well-being for the American people. Professor Piven is a renowned social scientist and life-long advocate for working people and the poor. The publication of Regulating the Poor, her ground-breaking book with Richard A. Cloward, ignited a debate that reshaped the field of social welfare policy. Her other books include Poor People's Movements, The Breaking of the American Social Compact, and Challenging Authority. Dr. Piven has been a recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim awards and has been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, Hebrew University, and the University of Bologna.Dr. Piven was a founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) and was a co-founder of the Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Campaign, which led to legislation popularly known as the “motor voter” bill. She serves on the boards of several advocacy organizations, including Project Vote and Wellstone Action. Her many honors include the Shirley Chisholm Lights of Freedom Award from Community Voices Heard and the Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship.

When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention. In this episode of the Co-Authored podcast, we look at the four-decade collaboration between Professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. This collaboration is incredibly timely today, as protest and social movements are at the center of debates about racial justice and social equity. Piven and Cloward studied this together starting in the early 1960s and what they discovered about poverty, race, and social movements in the multiple books and articles reveals a lot about the way forward. During this episode, you’ll directly from Piven, who I interviewed at her home in Manhattan. She retired from the City University of New York Graduate Center several years ago, but continues to write. Richard Cloward passed in the early 2000s, but you’ll hear from him in a clip from the 1960s. You’ll also hear from Dara Strolovitch, Phil Rocco, and Mark Schmidt. There’s a little bit of Milton Friedman and Glenn Beck to keep things moving, as well. The episode was supported by the American Political Science Association, the New Books Network, and John Jay College, CUNY. It was edited and produced by Sam Anderson. I hope you enjoy listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention. In this episode of the Co-Authored podcast, we look at the four-decade collaboration between Professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. This collaboration is incredibly timely today, as protest and social movements are at the center of debates about racial justice and social equity. Piven and Cloward studied this together starting in the early 1960s and what they discovered about poverty, race, and social movements in the multiple books and articles reveals a lot about the way forward. During this episode, you’ll directly from Piven, who I interviewed at her home in Manhattan. She retired from the City University of New York Graduate Center several years ago, but continues to write. Richard Cloward passed in the early 2000s, but you’ll hear from him in a clip from the 1960s. You’ll also hear from Dara Strolovitch, Phil Rocco, and Mark Schmidt. There’s a little bit of Milton Friedman and Glenn Beck to keep things moving, as well. The episode was supported by the American Political Science Association, the New Books Network, and John Jay College, CUNY. It was edited and produced by Sam Anderson. I hope you enjoy listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention. In this episode of the Co-Authored podcast, we look at the four-decade collaboration between Professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. This collaboration is incredibly timely today, as protest and social movements are at the center of debates about racial justice and social equity. Piven and Cloward studied this together starting in the early 1960s and what they discovered about poverty, race, and social movements in the multiple books and articles reveals a lot about the way forward. During this episode, you’ll directly from Piven, who I interviewed at her home in Manhattan. She retired from the City University of New York Graduate Center several years ago, but continues to write. Richard Cloward passed in the early 2000s, but you’ll hear from him in a clip from the 1960s. You’ll also hear from Dara Strolovitch, Phil Rocco, and Mark Schmidt. There’s a little bit of Milton Friedman and Glenn Beck to keep things moving, as well. The episode was supported by the American Political Science Association, the New Books Network, and John Jay College, CUNY. It was edited and produced by Sam Anderson. I hope you enjoy listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982. Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. A veteran of the war on poverty and subsequent welfare-rights protests both in New York City and on the national stage, she has been instrumental in formulating the theoretical underpinnings of those movements. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Some of Piven's major works include 'Regulating the Poor,' written with Richard Cloward, first published in 1972 and updated in 1993, which is a scrutiny of government welfare policy and how it is used to exert power over lower class individuals; 'Poor Peoples' Movements,' published in 1977, an analysis of how rebellious social movements can induce important reforms; 'Why Americans Don't Vote,' published in 1988 and a follow up book 'Why Americans Still Don't Vote' published in 2000, each of which look at the role of current American electoral practices which tend to discourage the poor working class from exercising their right to vote; 'The War at Home' published in 2004, a critical examination of the domestic results of the wars initiated by the Bush administration; and 'Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America,' a look at the interaction of disruptive social movements and electoral politics in generating the political force for democratic reform in American history. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Get Dr. Corsi's new eBook, "Rage, Race, and Riots," at https://www.corsination.com... excerpts: George Soros and the “War on Cops” "A leaked document from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation made clear Soros was on the “community policing” bandwagon with a view to building a “national movement” to reform local police forces with federal guidelines that would end up creating a national police force dedicated to achieving socialist “community policing goals.” "In the 2016 election cycle, Soros channeled more than $3 million into seven local district-attorney campaigns over six states. His goal was to overhaul the U.S. justice system consistent with his socialist views dedicated to implementing the principles of community policing on a national scale." The Cloward-Piven Theory to Bankrupt America On May 2, 1966, two Columbia University sociologists, Professor of Social Work Richard A. Cloward, and his then research associate Frances Fox Piven, wrote a pivotal article in The Nation, articulating “a strategy to end poverty.” "In what became known as the Cloward-Piven strategy, the article argued a revolutionary approach to mobilizing the poor in a form of class warfare against capitalist forces viewed as exploiting labor and oppressing the poor. David Horowitz, a long-time student of Leftist political movements in the United States characterized the Cloward-Piven strategy as seeking “to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.” Tune in Monday through Friday at 11:00am EDT for another show. Visit our sister website, http://www.theprayerfulpatriot.com dedicated to faith and prayer. https://www.patreon.com/jeromecorsi/ https://www.subscribestar.com/jerome_corsi/

Brothers-in-law Amit and Tony drink their dinner--Brooklyn Lager is the main course--and discuss the power of protest with the great Frances Fox Piven. We also contemplate the important fact that the Trump administration does not know how to turn on the lights during Cabinet meetings.

Elite media coverage of poverty has long centered questions of measuring it at the expense of ideas about ending it.

De door Obama in kooien opgesloten kinderen die zijn bevrijd door Trump (niet) en andere berichten van het immigratiefront. Also starring: Jeremy Piven, Stephen Miller, Glenn Beck, Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven en Rahm Emanuel. Luister!

Episode Notes In this episode we cover the events of February through May as the aftermath of the February Whirlwind Strike continues to take shape. Local 574 continued its impressive organizing campaigns, the unemployed led marches agaisnt the Roosevelt administration, Farrell Dobbs joins the Communist League, small strike within the city faced mixed results, and the Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson returns (from Episode 3), endorsing the "union idea." Even when the Teamsters weren't striking, the Minneapolis working class remained in motion.For more on the unemployed movement, see Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven & Richard Cloward and Impatient Armies of the Poor by Franklin Folsom.Support 1934: Mill City Revolt by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/1934-mill-city-revolutionFind out more on the 1934: Mill City Revolt website.This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Frances Fox Piven and Jeff Maskovsky in conversation about dispossession, exclusion, and alliances for new class politics. Full transcript available here: http://depts.washington.edu/relpov/on-authoritarian-dispossession-and-rethinking-left-poverty-politics/

Michael Sukhov and Peter Phillips explore the importance of radical sociology with three social scientists: Michael Thompson, Frances Fox Piven, and William Robinson. Michael Thompson teaches in the Political Science…

Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, clear-eyed analysis of just what the title suggests. Piven, a legendary scholar and activist, talks to Dan about her life, Occupy, Bernie, the Democratic Party, anti-war movements, black bloc, mass incarceration, and more. (Also: Dan's voice sounds a little different because he had to record in a different room.) Thanks to Verso Books and University of California Press. Check out The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West by Mark A. Lause versobooks.com/books/2592-the-great-cowboy-strike and Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City by Andrew J. Diamond ucpress.edu/ebook.php?isbn=9780520961715.

Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center/CUNY, a leader in the struggle for economic and social justice, believes policy of the administration has brought people together in resistance - that everybody is in it for everybody else.

Frances Fox Piven argues that social movements need to “make trouble” to effectively challenge Trump—starting with sanctuary movements that will enlist large numbers of people in resisting his deportation efforts. Plus, David Cole says defending First Amendment freedoms to criticize the president will be a major task in the coming year. And Katha Pollitt talks about the Women’s March on Washington this Saturday, and about the danger of underestimating Trump.

  Where Did the Democratic Party Go? What happened to the Democratic Party?  Today, much of the media focuses its attention on the turmoil in the GOP, but the Republicans haven't gone through the ideological transformation the Democrats have.  For the GOP, their rancor is largely centered over whether the party leadership has remained true to its ideals of lower taxes, smaller government, law and order and a muscular national defense.  On the Democratic side, the Van Jones, Communist ideological premise of the Democratic Party has shifted.  The shift has been unmistakably left.  So far left in fact, Democrats Bernie Sanders, Socialist can now with almost cavalier indifference claim avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders and even communists, like Van Jones as part of their family.  It wasn't very long ago, making such an accusation was fighting words.  So, what happened to the Democratic Party?  When did this shift occur? The transformation of the Democratic Party didn't happen overnight.  It happened over decades.  During those years, there were a number of events, marking turning points along the way.  The purpose here will be to point to the most important milestones in the intellectual and ideological changes that laid the foundations for the radicalism we see today in the Democratic Party. 1:  THE MOVE TOWARD PROGRESSIVISM Many Democrats today call themselves "Progressives."  To the uninformed ear, the term itself connotes movement in a direction that would at first glance seem positive.  After all, who is against progress?  It was precisely for this reason the early 20th century progressives adopted the term to describe themselves.  What role did Progressives play in party politics in the early 20th century and how does that relate to today? Progressivism was a reactionary response to the rapid social changes brought about by modernization and the Industrial Revolution.  Early 20th Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson century Progressives were reformers.  They hailed from both political parties.  Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican and Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, were both Progressives.  At their core, Progressives believed in activist government and had little use for strict constitutional interpretations with respect to limiting government's power and role in people's lives.  They believed a powerful national government was necessary as a countervailing force against the rise of monopolistic corporate power in both industry and finance.  Further, they saw national government as a vehicle to enact positive social change. During the second decade of the 20th century, Progressives accomplished a number of changes.  Ending the practice of child labor, organized labor, the enactment of an income tax, enfranchising women with the right to vote and the prohibition of alcohol throughout the United States, were all efforts, spearheaded by Progressives.  Although the results of these efforts were not all met with universal approval, Progressivism as a political movement became embedded as a permanent feature in the American body politic. 2.  THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Toward the end of World War I, there was a civil war in Russia.  Revolutionary Marxists calling themselves Bolsheviks (translated to mean , "The Majority"), overthrew the Tsar, murdering him and the entire royal family.  The Russian Revolution marked the first time any country was founded based on the Marxist theories of socialism.  The Russian Revolution created a wave of excitement in the west, including the United States.  In Russia, Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin they were beginning an entirely different form of government based on the working classes of people, using the writings of Karl Marx and their practical application by Vladimir Lenin.  To call the new Soviet state a bold experiment is an understatement. The excitement on the Progressive Left in America could hardly have been greater.  Revolutionary communists and socialists grew in popularity in the United States, particularly among the academic classes, but also in organized labor, a Democratic Party progressive stronghold.  Soviet style communism in the United States stopped short of being widely accepted, but the seeds of subversion were planted in a number of key institutions:  namely, academia and organized labor. 3.  THE ALGER HISS AFFAIR Alger Hiss was a top level State Department adviser to President Truman and was appointed by him to represent the United States in drafting the U.N. Charter.  Hiss was highly respected by leading Democrats all throughout the Washington, D.C. establishment.  In 1948, a Congressman from California, named Richard Nixon accused Hiss of being a Soviet spy based on evidence and testimony of a former communist spy, Whittaker Chambers.    The Democrats erupted with outrage against Nixon and Chambers.  Leading Democrats rushed to the defense of Hiss, vouching for his Alger Hiss loyalties to the United States in sworn Congressional testimony.  Rarely has a defense team ever assembled so impressive a Whittaker Chambers batch of character witnesses as appeared on behalf of Alger Hiss. The list included two U. S. Supreme Court justices, a former Solicitor General, and both former (John W. Davis) and future (Adlai Stevenson) Democratic presidential nominees. Justice Felix Frankfurter described Hiss's reputation as "excellent." Justice Stanley Reed said of Hiss's reputation, "I have never heard it questioned until these matters came up." Ultimately, Hiss could not be charged with espionage since the statute of limitations had expired, but was convicted on two counts of perjury connected to investigation about the alleged espionage.  It remained a stain on the reputation of the Democratic Party lasting for many years.  Not merely because someone so close to the President was an agent of the Soviet Union, but because he was so prominent, well respected and so many equally prominent Democrats stood up to defend a guilty man. For Nixon, it both catapulted him into the Vice Presidency and made him the most reviled Republican among Democrats.  The Hiss Affair made it possible for the people to question the loyalties of Democrats.  After all, what does it say of a Democratic Party when Soviet spies, socialists, Richard Nixon communists and other disloyal Americans can find comfort there?  Much of Nixon's later troubles with the media and Democrats were the residual effects of bitterness over the Alger Hiss affair.  Surely, nobody would suggest that all or even most Democrats at the time were less than patriotic.  But it did suggest that in at least some precincts of the Democratic Party, subversive thinking was tolerated.  The Hiss Affair exposed that dirty little secret and as a result, the nation was shocked.  The Alger Hiss controversy occurred in the early part of the Cold War era, when suspicions ran high and often turned into paranoia. For years after the Hiss's conviction, the debates over his innocence or guilt raged.  It wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the declassification of KGB documents, which clearly showed that Hiss was indeed a Soviet spy, was the matter settled.  Hiss was a traitor. It should be remembered that Alger Hiss, like many Soviet sympathizing communists, spent their formative years in the first two decades of the 20th century, which were so consequential in the development of the Progressive left and the effect on it from the Russian Revolution. The Hiss controversy is important because it is illustrative of how leftist extremists were able to hide amongst rank and file Democrats, gain their trust and avoid detection.  Over the decades, as the power of the extreme left of the Democratic party grew, it would  become less and less necessary to hide their loyalties, or lack thereof. 4.  THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND THE RISE OF THE WELFARE STATE The seminal event that marked the change in the Democratic Party was the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the ascension of Lyndon Johnson to the Presidency.  Johnson, a Texan and former majority leader of the Senate, blocked or watered down every attempt by the Eisenhower Administration at Civil Rights legislation.  With the death of Kennedy, however, Johnson, ever the opportunist, was able to forge a new alliance between southern blacks and the Democratic Party with the promise of a War on Poverty, new Civil Rights legislation and  laws ensuring voting rights.  Ironically, it was Republican support that helped pass those measures. Kennedy & Johnson Johnson,  knew he needed to disassociate the Democratic Party from the harsh images of Southern white supremacy, which was entirely owned by the Democrats.  He saw his opportunity with the War on Poverty.  Johnson was an FDR New Deal Democrat and he took his lessons from the New Deal which secured wide Democratic majorities in Congress.  Those majorities were won with high cost government programs which were supposed to address a social ill.  In the New Deal, the problem was mass unemployment.  Although the New Deal failed to correct the Depression era problems of unemployment, politically, even in failure, they provided the Democrats with Congressional majorities lasting decades.  Johnson was a witness to this. Johnson merely employed the New Deal model.  Even if it were possible for a government program to end poverty, that was not his political goal.  Rather, Johnson's political goal with the War on Poverty was to secure voting majorities for Democrats, particularly from Southern blacks, who for more than a century were reliable Republican voters.  Secondarily, he could change the image of the Democratic Party in the Civil Rights protester attacked by police dogs. South from one of intolerant white supremacists, important in an age where images on broadcast television shaped public opinion. Prior to the adoption of all of LBJ's poverty programs, leading Democrats, like Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that they would create a crippling dependency on government.  Moynihan believed these programs could cause the family unit to disintegrate since benefits were distributed based on need only.  Without proper administration, Moynihan said, breadwinner males would have a perverse incentive to be out of the home.  In other words, fatherlessness would be rewarded.  This is called a "moral hazard."  A moral hazard happens when a public policy encourages morally destructive behavior.  Those LBJ era programs did just that and people like Moynihan warned about it at the time and were dismissed or ignored. At the time, the rate of black illegitimacy was at or below the white rate, about 20%.  In the half century since the advent of the War on Poverty, black illegitimacy is 73% and showing no signs whatsoever of being reversed.  All of this leads to a predisposition on the part of the dependent class to demand more from government.  And government is what the extreme left is all about. While Johnson's programs had their greatest and most deleterious impact on the population of poor blacks, it was not limited to blacks at all.  The majority of Americans affected by these programs were white.  What Johnson achieved for the Democratic Party, however, was to change its image.  His diabolical gambit was to ensure a permanent voter base of people dependent on government.  He targeted blacks because he knew it would be difficult to oppose government programs for the poor without appearing cold blooded or even racist.  Everyone wants to help the poor, but not everyone believes it's government's role to actually help with financial support for the very reason that it could create the same crippling dependency Moynihan warned about and ultimately do more harm than good.   Over the half century since LBJ's programs, the black family has virtually dissolved, young black men between 15 and 30 are responsible for at least half of all violent crime, poor blacks are deprived of school choice because of the power of teachers unions, the ever increasing minimum wage promoted by leftists puts more and more unskilled and inexperienced young people out of work, abortion on demand causes more babies to be aborted than born in some major cities like New York, and the sense of hopelessness keeps increasing, placing ever greater demands on government for solutions.  But the solutions over the past half century have failed and suggesting a change in direction is often labeled as "racist."  As the demands grow louder, they also become more radical out of a sense of unfairness and disenfranchisement. With a population of people dependent on the government, the left extremists in the Democratic Party now had a constituency they could nurture and grow with the promise of greater benefits in the name of vaguely defined principles like "fairness."  By 1966, Columbia University professors, Richard Cloward & Piven Cloward and Frances Fox Piven devised a strategy to end poverty by  "overloading" the US welfare system to force its collapse in the hopes that it would be replaced by "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".  Whether this is full blown socialism or not isn't the point.  It is yet another inroad into the mainstream of the American body politic.  It is a rallying point, around which truly extreme socialists and communists could organize and subvert the current system of free market capitalism and constitutional government. Inside the dependent class, leftists have ferreted their way in to promote all manner and form of grievances.  The proliferation of a grievance culture is now at epidemic levels.  Progressives have teamed with militant radicals to demand fundamental changes to basic institutions.  In some cities and states, birth certificates no longer carry "mother" and "father", but "Parent A" and Parent B".  Marriage no longer means what it always meant for centuries.  Government is in your life in every way imaginable and imagining new ways every day. The people now in control of policy in the Democratic Party are not in the mainstream.  They have more in common with Alger Hiss than John F Kennedy or even Lyndon Johnson.  These are leftist radicals.  What we label them is less important than recognizing what they are and how it got this way.  

Frances Fox Piven is a towering figure of the American Left, a professor of political science whose combined academic work and political activism provide an extraordinary framework of ideas about poverty, race, war, and many other vital issues. We sat down for a conversation about her upbringing during the Great Depression, the development of her political values, her friendship with Howard Zinn, and her encounters with American reactionaries after becoming a featured target of right-wing hatred and paranoia on Glenn Beck's television program.  

Tell Somebody caught up with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman on the road in Oregon ahead of her November 1 Kansas City visit and fundraiser for KKFI. and broadcast it on the October 30, 2012 edition of the show.  Goodman was on a 100 city book tour for The Silenced Majority - Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope with co-author Denis Moynihan. After that, we heard from Frances Fox Piven, the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Ronnie welcomes Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. The two discuss poverty and the welfare system in our country.

Frances Fox Piven has spent a lifetime helping People, along with her husband the late Richard Cloward. She was a leader of the Social and Welfare Reforms that aided legions of the poor. Today, she faces demonization lead by Fox New's Glenn Beck. We talk to her about the past, the ugliness now, and more pointedly, what can be done for our future!

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Between the Lines at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director.   Producer: Andrew Stelzer Producer/Online Editor: Pauline Bartolone Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Associate Director: Khanh Pham Station Relations:  Daphne Young Web Editor: Jeff GiaQuinto Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alton Byrd & Alfonso Hooker   For More Information: Between the Lines A weekly radio news magazine show http://btlonline.org/   The Black Commentator http://blackcommentator.com/ Mullica Hill, NJ   CUNY Graduate Center http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ New York, NY Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University http://bit.ly/butM2t Cambridge, MA   Left Forum 2010 http://leftforum.org/ New York, NY  Rutgers School of Law–Newark http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/ Newark, NJ Articles, Blogs, Films, Reports, Other:  Audio recordings of panel discussions recorded at the Left Forum, March 20, 2010 in NY. http://www.btlonline.org/2010/leftforum032010.html  Music: Mass Appeal by Gangstarr Lovesick by Gangstarr   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions [Labor Day Special Encore] appeared first on KPFA.

It's been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new U.S. labor movement. It's a vision that goes beyond the unions. On this edition, we'll hear from an array of panelists discussing the future of labor in the U.S. recorded at the 2010 Left Forum in New York City.  Special thanks to Building Bridges at WPKN Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Featuring: Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Left Forum 2010 ‘Future of Labor in the U.S.' moderator & CUNY Graduate Center sociology & political science professor;Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center sociology, cultural studies & urban education professor; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist & BlackCommentator.com editorial board member and columnist; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor & Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice Director; Elaine Bernard, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School Executive Director For More Information:   The Black Commentatorhttp://blackcommentator.com/Mullica Hill, NJ CUNY Graduate Centerhttp://www.gc.cuny.edu/New York, NY   The post Making Contact – Working Beyond Unions appeared first on KPFA.

Frances Fox Piven talks about the Obama Presidency and American Social Movements.  Dennis Pilon offers an early bird analysis of the May 12 BC election and referendum on electoral reform.  Chris Hannah, lead singer of Propagandhi, talks about the politics of punk rock and the band’s new CD “Supporting Caste”.