As a student worker and (until recently) elected representative of UAW Local 2865 at the University of California, Irvine, I have been participating in the recent round of contract bargaining. My story is long, complicated, and filled with anger...
Cash For Clunkers...a bill that got me thinking about bailouts, free markets, and those tattered bloody rags of socialism. In the process, I ran into the thick, bunkered walls of free-market ideology and the twisted halls of free-speaking lobbyists.
I am a graduate student in Political Science at the University of California at Irvine. I a... more
I am a graduate student in Political Science at the University of California at Irvine. I am interested in some of the theoretical gaps in contemporary political activism/theory...I seem to dwell in the region of Marxism(s) and anarchism, as well as contemporary democratic theory and radical politics. I am a vegan and I also am interested in re-conceptualizing animal "rights."