Liza Featherstone

Contributing Editor

Liza Featherstone is a journalist based in New York City. Her work on student and youth activism has been published in The Nation, Lingua Franca, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Left Business Observer, Dissent, The Sydney Morning Herald and Columbia Journalism Review. Featherstone has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, In These Times, Ms., Salon, Nerve, US, Nylon and Rolling Stone. She is the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (Verso, 2002) and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic, 2004).

Currently

  • Out of Reach

    June 10, 2009

    As the cost of college hits the stratosphere, students are organizing to bring it down to earth.

  • Help Wanted for Green Jobs

    January 28, 2009

    It's inspiring to have a president who talks the talk on green-collar jobs. But we need megawatts, not just megawords.

2007

  • Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?

    June 27, 2007 Subscribe

    SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?

  • Surge for Peace

    February 2, 2007

    Thanks to the efforts of the peace movement and a significant shift in public opinion, we can stop this war. But it's not going to be easy.

2006

  • Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy

    December 17, 2006 Subscribe

    Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.

  • Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy

    December 14, 2006

    Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.

  • A Win for Women

    November 9, 2006 Subscribe

    Thanks to a thoughtful grassroots campaign, voters in South Dakota rejected a draconian abortion ban.

  • Democracy Worked for SD Abortion Vote

    November 8, 2006

    The electoral process worked for pro-choice advocates in South Dakota, overturning an abortion ban with a grassroots appeal to keep the government out of citizens' personal lives.

  • Mean or Green?

    August 24, 2006 Subscribe

    Wal-Mart is serious about bringing organic food to the masses, but transportation costs and the retail giant's aggressive competitive ways could end up hurting small farms and the environment.

2005

  • Spin Control at Wal-Mart

    November 3, 2005

    A hard-hitting documentary, an embarrassing leaked memo on healthcare and abandonment by customers who don't like its politics. It's getting harder these days for Wal-Mart to put on a happy public face.

  • On the Wal-Mart Money Trail

    November 2, 2005

    As the nation's wealthiest family, the Waltons could be a force for social good. But when they choose to spend their fortune lobbying for pet projects, tax cuts and charter schools instead of providing a living wage for their workers, they are dangerous (and costly) to the nation.

  • Peaceniks Flood DC

    September 29, 2005 Subscribe

    Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush Administration is a complete failure.

  • Make Levees, Not War

    September 25, 2005

    New Orleans was top-of-mind for more than 100,000 peace advocates in Washington who delivered a clear and unified message, protesting the Bush Administration's war in Iraq and its callous indifference to the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

  • Wal-Mart to the Rescue!

    September 13, 2005

    For once, Wal-Mart is acting like a hero, with speedy delivery of water and supplies to Hurricane Katrina victims. If it could only act that way every day.

  • The Bank of Wal-Mart?

    August 31, 2005

    Sounds like an episode of The Simpsons, but this is for real: The retail giant wants even more of your money.

  • Wal-Mart Woos the Eggheads

    August 3, 2005

    If you're a scholar doing critical research on the company, why not take Wal-Mart at its word and respond to its call for papers?

  • More than a Feeling

    July 19, 2005

    Wal-Mart is no real friend of civil rights.

  • Lee Scott, Civil Rights Activist (Really!)

    July 8, 2005

    Talk about surprising developments, Wal-Mart has done something good.

  • Taking Heat for Sweatshops

    June 21, 2005

    Despite its efforts to silence whistleblowers, Wal-Mart remains under fire for abusing its workers.

  • Wal-Mart's Good (and Bad) Sides

    June 10, 2005

    Opposition to Wal-Mart in a community can invigorate progressive politics and expose entrenched politicians as vision-free hacks.

  • Lee Scott, What a Charmer!

    June 8, 2005

    At Wal-Mart's annual shareholders meeting, the company blames workers for its public relations disasters.

  • Lee Scott's Shiny Green Lexus

    May 31, 2005

    Wal-Mart's CEO showcases his company's hypocrisy.

  • Wal-Mart Tries to Grow a Pair

    May 25, 2005

    If Wal-Mart finds resistance irksome, it should lobby for universal healthcare.

  • Time To Hold Wal-Mart Accountable

    May 18, 2005

    Wal-Mart recently found another group to offend (besides women, immigrants, African-Americans, worldwide organized labor and small businesspeople).

  • The Political Costs of Wal-Mart

    May 11, 2005

    Cozying up to Wal-Mart may cost a New Jersey mayor his job.

  • Is Union-busting Bad for Business?

    May 5, 2005

    About those secret payments, alligator boots, and how to "Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart."

  • Race to the Bottom

    March 9, 2005

    Wal-Mart hopes to defeat its opponents by exploiting their racial divisions.

  • Letters

    February 9, 2005 Subscribe

2004

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1999

  • Hot-Wiring High School

    June 3, 1999

    The International Student Activism Alliance has been run by and for high school students since its founding in 1996. Read this report by Liza Featherstone, originally published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The Nation.

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