A blog for and by my students
Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within some
1. What does 99% and 1% stand for? 2. Give the names of the three richest people in America. 3. Why have the average Americans been hit harder during the economic crisis than the upper-class? 4. How many millions of Americans live below the poverty line?...
Try to give a sum-up in French of what you understood. Do you think those people are right?
The Occupy Wall Street movement of protestation began in New York on September 2011 but soon reached other US cities. The way those activists protested against unemployment, income inequality, financial greed and corruption illustrate as well the existence...
In politics, power is the ability to influence the behavior of people. Obviously, there is the power of laws that every citizen should respect, but also the power of the medias, the power of money etc.... Even when authority seems absolute, there are...