Mobilizing The Jobless

Surrounding high unemployment, Frances Fox Piven asks the right questions, points out the present unhelpful reality, and offers suggestions for positive effective actions by the unemployed.

There's a lot of people out there in need of work and that body of people could affect a lot of politicians and their policies if they could only work as a more singular angry voice.

Frances Fox Piven points to 99ers.net or layofflist.org as web resources.

ZNET: Mobilizing the Jobless

So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations, sit-ins and unruly mobs?


Instead the next Congress is going to be fixated on an Alice in Wonderland policy of deficit reduction by means of tax and spending cuts.


So it remains to be seen whether websites such as 99ers.net or layofflist.org that have recently been initiated among the unemployed can also become the basis for collective action, as the Internet has in the global justice movement.