11.01.2011

Christopher Petrella is a weekly columnist for NationofChange and a “Featured Blogger” for Russia Today. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Monthly Review, Truthout, Axis of Logic, ZNet, and The Real Cost of Prisons. He is a doctoral candidate in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is a 2012-2013 Haas Education Policy Fellow. Christopher teaches at San Quentin State Prison and holds degrees from Bates College and Harvard University.


Op-Eds @ Nation of Change:


"President Obama's IncarcerNation" (4/24/2012)

"When Health Reform Comes to America..." (3/29/2012)

"Demilitarizing the War on Drugs" (3/22/2012)

"Recovery for the 1%, Recession for the Rest" (3/15/2012)

"Pushing Obama Left on Corporate Tax Reform" (3/1/2012)

"Criminalizing the Poor: From Welfare to Cellfare" (2/24/2012)

"Revolution on an Empty Stomach?" (2/17/2012)

"Market Socialism: Alaska's Most Coveted Export?" (2/10/2012)

"Lifting the Colorblind in Tucson" (2/6/2012)

"Occupy the Minimum Wage!" (2/3/2012)

"Yesterday's Deception, Today's Correction: In Response to Mitch Daniels..." (1/26/2012)

"Blue States Make, Red States Take" (1/23/2012)

"Death, Taxes, and Alcatraz" (1/20/2012)

"The GOP's Efficiency Deficit" (1/14/2012)

"The GOP is 53% Wrong" (1/7/2012)

"Leasing Through the Back Door: The Private Financing of Public Prisons" (12/31/2011)

"Seed and Blossom: Reflections on Occupy Oakland" (12/22/2012)

"Financing Our Freedoms" (12/16/2012)

"Degrees of Debt" (12/9/2012)

"Wal-Mart is Larger than Norway" (12/2/2012)

"The Public in Republican: The Privatization of Prisons and Universities" (11/22/2011)

"Consuming Containment, Purchasing Punishment: Pay-To-Stay Prisons and the Great Risk Shift" (11/13/2011)

"A Business Plan is not Public Policy" (10/27/2012)


Additional Publications:


"Financial Responsibility in a Financially Irresponsible Economy" (2/19/2012)

"Reframing the Payroll Tax Debate" (12/7/2011)

"Defaulting on Democracy" The Political Economy of Higher Education" (11/11/2011)

"Rewarding the Rich, Regulating the Rest" (10/30/2011)

"Oscar Wilde Economics" (10/17/2011)

"Big White Lies: Affirmative Action or Public Policy?" (10/12/2011)

"Black Americans and Occupy Wall Street" (10/7/2011)

"Occupy Wall Street: A Ten Point Program" (10/2/2011)

"Occupy Wall Street's Financial Fetish" (9/30/2011)

"Half-Baked: U.C. Berkeley College Republicans" (9/26/2011)

"Suffering in Silence: The Underclass" (9/15/2011)

"The Morning After (Graduation)" (9/12/2011)

"Mind the Pay Gap" (9/1/2011)

"French Toast (or a Toast to the French?)" (8/27/2011)

Keynote Graduation Speech @ San Quentin State Prison (8/22/2011)

"We Not Me: The Limitations of Identity Politics" (8/19/2011)

"To Be, Or Not to Be Exploited" (8/9/2011)

"Talkin' Dirty: Clean up Your Act, Verizon!" (8/9/2011)

"Broken Record Republicans" (8/1/2011)

"Dan Savage's Big, Gay Problem" (7/14/2011)

"Drugs N' Thugs" (6/9/2011)

"Dear President Obama, Tell the Truth!" (5/29/2011)

"Surfing Alone: Web Personalization, Confirmation Bias, and the Democratic Project (5/28/2011)

"Depoliticizing Politics: Repressive Individuality in Therapy and Education" (4/26/2011)

"You Can't Pee for Free: Notes of the Privatization of the Public Sphere" (3/7/2011)


Interviews:


CP on The David Pakman Show (11/17/2011)