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51-709: He was the president of the National Writers Union from 1990 to 2003. In 2006, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, principally because of the incumbent's vote for the Iraq Resolution which gave then President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq . He is currently president of the Economic Future Group, a national consulting group. He also writes frequently for

102-468: A primary with Clinton, submitted approximately 40,000 of them on July 13. Tasini was endorsed by a number of prominent political activists, including Susan Sarandon , Cindy Sheehan , Barbara Ehrenreich , and Howard Zinn . On September 7, 2006, Gay City News endorsed Tasini's Senate candidacy, citing his support for same-sex marriage , and Clinton's stated opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage. In his campaign, Tasini emphasized his opposition to

153-457: A theoretical physics Ph.D , but changed early on to cellular immunology and received her Ph.D at Rockefeller University . In 1970, Ehrenreich gave birth to her daughter Rosa in a public clinic in New York. "I was the only white patient at the clinic, and I found out this was the health care women got," she told The Globe and Mail newspaper in 1987, "They induced my labor because it

204-538: A union organizer for the Teamsters . She divorced Stevenson in 1993. Ehrenreich had two children with her first husband. Her daughter Rosa , born in 1970, was named after a great-grandmother and Rosa Luxemburg . She is a Virginia-based law professor, national security and foreign policy expert and writer. Ehrenreich's son Ben , born in 1972, is a novelist and a journalist in Los Angeles . Ehrenreich

255-560: A "fourth-generation atheist". Later in life, she wrote that she rejected "the God of monotheism" because of the philosophical problem of a being that was all good and all powerful, when people were living with "all the misery he allowed or instigated". She had mystical experiences throughout her life, which she identified as belonging to a type animism rather than theism . "As a little girl", she told The New York Times in 1993, "I would go to school and have to decide if my parents were

306-457: A course on women and health with feminist journalist and academic Deirdre English . Through the rest of the seventies, Ehrenreich worked mostly in health-related research, advocacy and activism, including co-writing, with English, several feminist books and pamphlets on the history and politics of women's health. During this period she began speaking frequently at conferences staged by women's health centers and women's groups, by universities, and by

357-656: A joint industry-scientific-academic panel. He also was the founder of the Creators Federation, which sought to unite creators groups to work in concert. Tasini remains the president emeritus of the NWU. Tasini is a leading economics and labor writer who has analyzed economic and labor affairs for a wide variety of publications and organizations, including The Wall Street Journal , CNBC , Bloomberg Businessweek , Playboy , The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , and Newsday . He

408-822: A labor and economy blog , Working Life . Tasini was born in Houston , Texas , though he spent much of his late childhood in Israel . Tasini's father, Betsalel Tasini, was a computer scientist who was born in Palestine and fought in the Haganah , Israel's pre-state army, and its strike force, the Palmach . Tasini lived with his father and stepmother in Israel for seven years and speaks fluent Hebrew. He completed high school in Israel studied at Tel Aviv University . While there, he

459-482: A likely suicide". Her father died years later from Alzheimer's disease . Ehrenreich was married and divorced twice. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich , during an anti-war activism campaign in New York City , and they married in 1966. He is a clinical psychologist , and they co-wrote several books about health policy and labor issues before divorcing in 1977. In 1983, she married Gary Stevenson,

510-1123: A number of organizations including the National Women's Health Network , the National Abortion Rights Action League , the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, the Nationwide Women's Program of the American Friends Service Committee , the Brooklyn -based Association for Union Democracy, the Boehm Foundation , the Women's Committee of 100, the National Writers Union , the Progressive Media Project, FAIR 's advisory committee on women in

561-542: A positive and enviable experience." In 2004, she received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship , awarded jointly by the Puffin Foundation of New Jersey and The Nation Institute to an American who challenges the status quo "through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, socially responsible work of significance". In 2007, she received the "Freedom from Want" Medal , awarded by

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612-596: A starting point in the book. In this book, she brought to light various methods of what Nobel physicist Murray Gell-Mann called "quantum flapdoodle". Beginning in 2013, Ehrenreich was an honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America . She also served on the NORML board of directors, the Institute for Policy Studies board of trustees and the editorial board of The Nation . She has served on

663-769: Is a trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers founded on 19 November 1981. Organized into 17 local chapters nationwide, it had been Local 1981 of the United Automobile Workers , AFL–CIO since merging with them in 1992. On 11 May 2020, the NWU disaffiliated with the UAW. NWU is affiliated with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the International Authors Forum (IAF), and

714-688: Is the creator and publisher of Working Life , a central source of information, analysis and debate within organized labor and the general policy community, and one of the first blogs to devote itself entirely to work and the economy. Tasini is the author of five books: The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America (2015); It's Not Raining, We’re Being Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis (2010); The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves and The Looting of America (2009); They Get Cake, We Eat Crumbs: The Real Story Behind Today's Unfair Economy (1997); and The Edifice Complex: Rebuilding

765-577: Is the subject of perennial debate within the NWU.) There is a National Executive Board (NEB), consisting of the 11 officers of the National Executive Committee plus the chairs of the 17 local chapters. The NEB meets annually to approve the annual budget and to review the implementation of policies adopted by the Delegate Assembly. Contested elections for the National Executive Committee officers have occasionally been

816-726: The Los Angeles Times Book Review supplement, Vogue , Salon.com , TV Guide , Mirabella and American Film . Her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine , The New York Times , The New York Times Magazine , Time , The Wall Street Journal , Life , Mother Jones , Ms. , The Nation , The New Republic , the New Statesman , In These Times , The Progressive , Working Woman , and Z Magazine . Ehrenreich served as founder, advisor or board member to

867-455: The 2003 invasion of Iraq and called for universal health care and curbs on corporate power as part of what he termed "New Rules For the Economy". He wrote a book called It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis in 2010, voicing his opinions about the current debt crises. On May 13, 2010 Tasini announced that he would now be running for Congress, hoping to win

918-634: The Artists Rights Society , Association of American Editorial Cartoonists , Illustrator's Partnership of America, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators , the Stock Artists Alliance , and the Advertising Photographers of America, among others) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 . Known collectively as " Artists United Against

969-531: The Erasmus Prize . Ehrenreich was born to Isabelle ( née Oxley) and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte , Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town". In an interview on C-SPAN , she characterized her parents as "strong union people" with two family rules: "never cross a picket line and never vote Republican". In a talk she gave in 1999, Ehrenreich called herself

1020-632: The Roosevelt Institute in celebration of "those whose life's work embodies FDR's Four Freedoms". Ehrenreich received a Ford Foundation award for humanistic perspectives on contemporary society (1982), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987–88) and a grant for research and writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1995). She received honorary degrees from Reed College, the State University of New York at Old Westbury,

1071-460: The presidential campaign of Ralph Nader ; in 2004, she urged voters to support John Kerry in the swing states . In February 2008, she expressed support for then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign . In 2001, Ehrenreich published her seminal work, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . Seeking to explore whether people can subsist on minimum wage in

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1122-423: The 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America . She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America , a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and

1173-763: The American Labor Movement to Face the Global Economy (1995). He wrote a paper on The Audacity of Timidity in which he is stated to be the Executive Director of the Labor Research Association . On December 6, 2005, Tasini officially announced his bid to challenge Senator Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the New York 2006 Senate election . Tasini, who needed to collect 15,000 valid signatures to force

1224-466: The American dream that education and credentials could lead to a secure middle class life, but now find their lives disrupted by forces beyond their control." In 2009, she wrote Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America , which investigated the rise of the positive thinking industry in the United States. She included her own experience after being told that she had breast cancer as

1275-702: The College of Wooster in Ohio, John Jay College, UMass Lowell and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. In November 2018, Ehrenreich received the Erasmus Prize by King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands for her work in investigative journalism. Ehrenreich had one brother, Ben Alexander Jr., and one sister, Diane Alexander. When she was 35, according to the book Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents , her mother died "from

1326-423: The Democratic primary garnering 2,389 votes, or 5% of the total vote. In January 2018, Tasini published a message via Twitter that referenced both a fatal train crash involving Republican lawmakers and the decision by Representative Trey Gowdy not to seek re-election, which read, in part, "God is working hard today to clean up the stink." National Writers Union National Writers Union ( NWU )

1377-614: The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO). The NWU seeks to defend the rights of, and improve the economic and working conditions for, all writers. It offers advocacy, contract advice, grievance assistance, a job hotline, member education, press passes for qualified members, writer alerts and warnings, and access to group rate health and dental insurance (in certain geographic areas). The union also issues various publications and an irregular journal called American Writer . Ultimate power in

1428-565: The Montana School of Mines, the family moved to Pittsburgh , New York , and Massachusetts , before settling down in Los Angeles . He eventually became a senior executive at the Gillette Corporation . Her parents later divorced. Ehrenreich studied physics at Reed College , switched to chemistry , graduating in 1963. Her senior thesis was Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode . In 1968, she enrolled in

1479-571: The NWU is probably the 2001 victory in Tasini v. Times , in which the United States Supreme Court in a decisive 7–2 ruling affirmed the copyright privileges of freelance writers whose works were originally published in periodicals and then licensed by the publishers to electronic databases without explicit permission of, or compensation to, the writers. In 2008, NWU joined over 60 other art licensing businesses (including

1530-562: The NWU published a statement by a number of author organizations regarding the Internet Archive's Open Library project. The NWU was concerned that freely distributing copies of authors' works violated the protections that those authors get from copyright laws. The statement called for "a dialogue among writers, authors, publishers, and librarians on how to enable and create the digital libraries we all want, in ways that fully respect authors’ rights" The Freelance Solidarity Project

1581-592: The NWU rests in the biennial Delegate Assembly (DA), subject to the provisions of the UAW 's constitution. Delegates are elected to the assembly by local chapters and serve a term of two years. Each chapter is allocated a number of delegates according to the size of its membership. The DA sets over-all union strategy and policy, charters new locals, and establishes national working bodies that carry out union activities. Delegates are unpaid volunteers. The National Executive Committee (NEC) consists of 11 officers directly elected by

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1632-493: The U.S. Orphan Works Acts ," the diverse organizations joined forces to oppose the bills, which the groups believe "permits, and even encourages, wide-scale infringements while depriving creators of protections currently available under the Copyright Act." In 2017, the NWU sued Ebony magazine for $ 200,000 on behalf of writers who were owed money. The suit was settled with writers being paid $ 74,000. In February 2019,

1683-763: The U.S. government forces a dangerous drug, pesticide or other product off the domestic market, then the manufacturer sells that same product, frequently with the direct support of the State Department, throughout the rest of the world." In 1998 the American Humanist Association named her "Humanist of the Year". In 2000, she received the Sidney Hillman Award for journalism for the Harper's article "Nickel and Dimed", which

1734-528: The United States government. She also spoke regularly about socialist feminism and about feminism in general. Throughout her career, Ehrenreich worked as a freelance writer. She is arguably best known for her non-fiction reportage, book reviews and social commentary. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review , The Washington Post , The Atlantic Monthly , Mother Jones , The Nation , The New Republic ,

1785-412: The United States, she worked "undercover" in a series of minimum-wage jobs, such as waitress, housekeeper, and Wal-Mart associate, and reported on her efforts to pay living expenses with the low wages paid by those jobs (an average of $ 7 per hour). She concluded that it was impossible to pay for food and rent without working at least two such jobs. Nickel and Dimed became a bestseller and admirers regard

1836-468: The Writers Union. Despite its name, wrote Peterson, on behalf of the NWU and President Jonathan Tasini, the union was in fact not legally a "labor organization," since its members are freelancers. Peterson's position was felt by many members to undermine two decades of work in establishing the NWU as writers' legitimate bargaining representative under Federal labor law. The best-known activity of

1887-513: The book as "a classic of social justice literature." Ehrenreich founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project with one main purpose: support immersive reporting on the working poor, in the manner of Ehrenreich's own Nickel and Dimed . Filling in for a vacationing Thomas Friedman as a columnist with The New York Times in 2004, Ehrenreich wrote about how, in the fight for women's reproductive rights , "it's

1938-530: The editorial boards of Social Policy , Ms. , Mother Jones , Seven Days , Lear's , The New Press , and Culturefront, and as a contributing editor to Harper's . In 1980, Ehrenreich shared the National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting with colleagues at Mother Jones magazine for the cover story The Corporate Crime of the Century , about "what happens after

1989-696: The evil people they were talking about, part of the Red Menace we read about in the Weekly Reader , just because my mother was a liberal Democrat who would always talk about racial injustice." Her mother was a deeply unhappy homemaker . Her father was a copper miner who went to the Montana School of Mines (renamed Montana Technological University in 2018 ) and then to Carnegie Mellon University . A high-functioning alcoholic , he strongly valued intelligence. After her father graduated from

2040-661: The media, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws , and the Campaign for America's Future . Between 1979 and 1981, she served as an adjunct associate professor at New York University and as a visiting professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia and at Sangamon State University (Now University of Illinois, Springfield.) She lectured at the University of California, Santa Barbara ,

2091-534: The membership. The NEC administers the union between meetings of the National Executive Board (NEB), oversees union staff, initiates new union activities, and implements strategies, campaigns, projects, and policies adopted by the Delegate Assembly. The President is paid a full-time salary and the Vice presidents and Financial Secretary/Treasurer are paid part-time salaries. (The question of salaries

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2142-422: The seat held by Charles Rangel , who has been a representative of the 15th district for 17 years. According to a press release announcing his candidacy, Tasini stated that he plans to "remain entirely energized about our mission to change the country". Tasini was endorsed by prominent actors and political activists, including Richard Dreyfuss and Armand Assante . On September 14, 2010, Tasini finished fifth in

2193-487: The subject of great controversy within the NWU, and a considerable level of acrimony has inevitably developed. In particular, during one re-election attempt, a president was charged with using union funds to promote his campaign. The charge went to the US Department of Labor, but the department refused to hear the case after Lowell Peterson, a United Auto Workers lawyer, insisted that Federal labor law did not apply to

2244-787: The women who shrink from acknowledging their own abortions who really irk me" and said that she herself "had two abortions during my all-too-fertile years". In her 1990 book of essays, The Worst Years of Our Lives , she wrote that "the one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks." In 2005, The New Yorker called her "a veteran muckraker ". In 2006, she founded United Professionals, an organization described as "a nonprofit, non-partisan membership organization for white-collar workers , regardless of profession or employment status. We reach out to all unemployed, underemployed, and anxiously employed workers—people who bought

2295-822: Was a writer-in-residence at the Ohio State University , Wayne Morse chair at the University of Oregon , and a teaching fellow at the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley . She was a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities , the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , the Institute for Policy Studies , and the New York-based Society of American Historians. In 2000, Ehrenreich endorsed

2346-632: Was also involved in Histadrut , a trade union. He earned a degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles . From 1990 to April 2003, he served as president of the National Writers Union ( UAW Local 1981). In 1993, Tasini was the lead plaintiff in the case of New York Times Co. v. Tasini , in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the copyright claims of writers whose work

2397-542: Was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the release of her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . This led to the award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published in the November 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine . The piece inspired the 2011 documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. . Ehrenreich lived in Alexandria, Virginia , where she died at a hospice facility on September 1, 2022, from

2448-454: Was late in the evening and the doctor wanted to go home. I was enraged. The experience made me a feminist." After completing her doctorate, Ehrenreich did not pursue a career in science. Instead, she worked first as an analyst with the Bureau of the Budget in New York City and with the Health Policy Advisory Center, and later as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Old Westbury . In 1972, Ehrenreich began co-teaching

2499-455: Was later published as a chapter in her book of the same title. In 2002, she won a National Magazine Award for her essay "Welcome to Cancerland: A mammogram leads to a cult of pink kitsch", which describes Ehrenreich's own experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer, and describes what she calls the "breast cancer cult," which "serves as an accomplice in global poisoning – normalizing cancer, prettying it up, even presenting it, perversely, as

2550-453: Was organized by NWU in September 2019 with the aim of organizing freelance , permalance, staff, and contract workers . FSP is overseen by a twelve-member committee that aims to set industry wide standards for freelancers. Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich ( / ˈ ɛər ən r aɪ k / , AIR -ən-rike ; née   Alexander ; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist . During

2601-444: Was republished in electronic databases without their permission. The ruling set an important precedent that lead to a class-action lawsuit settlement of $ 18 million. He also served in a wide variety of additional author and labor advocacy positions, including as a board member of the International Federation of Journalists and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,

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