Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His latest book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books, 2012). Follow him on Twitter: @PeterDreier.
ALL POSTS BY Peter Dreier
July 18, 2016Attacking inequality means both raising wages at the bottom and doing away with outsized compensation at the top.
April 6, 2016Ordinary people in California and across the country have invested their time and talent toward the goal of lifting working families out of poverty -- and the movement is gaining momentum.
May 21, 2015The movement toward a living wage is quickly gaining public sympathy and support.
May 7, 2015Long deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as American as apple pie.
December 12, 2014Protests against racist injustice — triggered by the failure of the criminal justice system to indict the killers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner — has propelled Obama to recall his community organizing roots.
December 8, 2014Activists are transforming outrage into community organizing projects, voter registration drives and mass protest campaigns.
November 28, 2014Organizers say that at more than 1,600 Wal-Mart stores, shoppers on Black Friday will be greeted by employees protesting the company's abusive labor practices.
November 5, 2014The Republican wave of election victories was more about changing the rules of democracy to favor big business and conservative interest groups, than a reflection of the American people's opinions.
August 27, 2014The soul-searching that the country is going through in the wake of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, echoes that of our past.
June 26, 2014There is precedent for presidential action to improve workers' rights.
