#Tribute #BarbaraEhrenreich

Le 1er septembre dernier décédait Barbara Ehrenreich.
Journaliste, activiste, historienne et tant d'autres choses encore, je voulais lui rendre un petit hommage.
Sa probité et sa tenacité n'avait d’égal que son sens de l'humour.

Ici un extrait d'une conférence de 2006, que #DemocracyNow a repassé dans un #dailyExpress qui lui été dédié le 2 septembre.

https://video.liberta.vip/w/iK4uTRQbADSN6ye3BxZSwi

> ... [Her] great contribution to economic justice.. exposing the cult of #PositiveThinking.. We concluded from #NickelAndDimed that people were not making it in America.. we.. [saw] through.. #BrightSided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America that the economy was.. unimpeded.. putting a smiley face on #inequality... The alternative.. blame one’s #employer.. the #USEconomy.. [being] dangerous to.. #CorporateAmerica.
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/13/how-barbara-ehrenreich-exposed-the-positive-thinking-industry/
#BarbaraEhrenreich #SonaliKolhatkar

#BarbaraEhrenreich on #Health, #Poverty, #WageSlavery... with an example of #professional #DisciplinedMinds.
http://www.healthpacbulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1988-Vol-18-4-Winter.pdf

> .. the author and political activist #BarbaraEhrenreich, who has died at the age of 81 after a career exposing #inequality and the struggles of regular people in the United States.
“She’s really one of the towering figures of the radical and progressive movement in America, and it’s a tremendous loss, not only to her family but to all who knew her and benefited from her work,”
#JuanGonzalez
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/6/author_barbara_ehrenreich_dies_at_81
#DemocracyNow #AmyGoodman

> The Happy Planet Index, to give just one example, locates us at 150th among the world's nations.
> How can we be so surpassingly "positive" in self-image and stereotype without being the world's happiest and best-off people? The answer, I think, is that positivity is not so much our condition or our mood as it is part of our ideology
- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113758696
#optimism #brightsided #humbug #USA #BarbaraEhrenreich

> talked about my disgust at this positive thinking culture that had taken over, and I’ve gotten wonderful responses. Basically, “Ah, thank God someone said it!”
- https://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/13/author_barbara_ehrenreich_on_bright_sided
#BarbaraEhrenreich #brightsided #optimism