Peter Dreier

Jeff the Trucker

Into the Breach (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008

Peter Dreier publishes the details on the Oak Harbor trucking strike. It would seem that the company's only interest is in breaking the union rather than bargaining in good faith.

Peter Dreier: Shifting Gears: Transforming Obama's Campaign into a Movement for Change

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

... and momentum of his campaign into a grassroots movement to move the country in a new direction. Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College

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Peter Dreier: Truck The Gap

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008

Forget Joe the Plumber. One of America's real working class heroes is Jeff the truck driver. Jeff Wallace, 43, has been on the picket lines...

Maybe it takes a community organizer to lead a country

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008

As my academic-activist friend Peter Dreier notes, "The Obama campaign hired hundreds of organizers from labor unions, community and environmental organizations and religious groups. They, in turn, recruited tens of thousands of volunteers and trained them in the skills of community organizing. They used door-knocking, small house meetings, cellphones and the Internet to motivate and...

Shifting Gears: Transforming Obama's Campaign into a Movement for Change

Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

Shifting Gears: Transforming Obama's Campaign into a Movement for Change Peter Dreier, November 6, 2008 Huffington Post For the first time in history, Americans elected a former community organizer as their President. Barack Obama is going to need all those organizing skills to be an effective leader. To achieve a progressive agenda, Obama will have to win over some reluctant Democrats...

Today in The Nation: Remember Them

The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

... 2007, to 3 percent this February, to just 2 percent of stories during the last week of October. Peter Dreier and John Atlas explain the ACORN controversy, and explore the Republican rationale for keeping it in the news. Three new books vividly portray the devastating impact of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Most Americans want to put the war in Iraq behind them, but this feeling...

Sports stars join candidates on campaign trail

USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008

"There's a critical mass of athletes willing to speak out – the feeling is so deep," Peter Dreier, a politics professor at California's Occidental College, told USA TODAY, adding that Democratic candidate Barack Obama has made athletes, including many black ones, "turn the corner."

Election fever spills in and out of NFL locker rooms

USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008

... coat tails. "There's a critical mass of athletes willing to speak out -- the feeling is so deep," Peter Dreier, a politics professor at California's Occidental College, said, adding that Democratic candidate Barack Obama has made athletes"turn the corner." For example, six members of the Tampa Bay Rays took the stage last month with Obama. Young NBA star Greg Oden used his blog to...

The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game

Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008

By Peter Dreier & John Atlas This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. October 22, 2008 Since the 1970s ACORN, which has 400,000 low- and moderate-income "member families" in more than 100 cities in forty states, has been warning Congress to protect borrowers from the banking industry's irresponsible, risky and predatory practices--subprime loans, racial discrimination...

Today in The Nation: Meeting Myself in Bucks County

The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008

... I would catch staring blankly into TV screens or half-empty glasses of beer. Share this article : Peter Dreier and John Atlas explain the ACORN controversy, and explore the Republican rationale for keeping it in the news : Ralph Nader is a man of political substance, trapped in an era of easy lies. : Knocking on doors for Obama and braced for encounters with angry white voters, a...

The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game

Burning Cane (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008

The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game Peter Dreier & John Atlas, October 22,2008 An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN's alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious is that it caused, nearly single-handedly, the world's financial crisis. That's the fantasy. In the reality-based world,...