Books

The Case Against the California Tribal Casino Compact Amendments

September 2009

Shopping for a Market: Evaluating Tesco¿s Entry into Los Angeles and the United States

December, 2007

Connecting the Parks to the Community and the Community to the Parks

August 2007

Pulling Apart: Economic Segregation among Suburbs and Central Cities in Major Metropolitan Areas

October 2006

Brookings Institution

October 2004

Rent Deregulation in California and Massachusetts

NYU Law School and NYC Rent Guidelines Board

May 1997

Articles

Title

Publication

Date

Pasadena's Tale of Two Cities

Pasadena Weekly

December 30, 2010

Los Angeles Homeowners Take to the Streets to Protest Foreclosure Abuses

Will Higher Taxes on the Rich Kill Jobs?

December 13, 2010

Review of John Atlas, "Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN"

December 1, 2010

Truth Out

November 19, 2010

Poverty living at luxury prices

The Pasadena Weekly

November 4, 2010

GOP-Tea Party Rift Is a Myth

Guest View: A boutique hotel and Pasadena's stimulus

November 3, 2010

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

October 5, 2010

Six Months After Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Republicans Still Obstructing Progress

Health Care Reform - Six Months Later

October 5, 2010

The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the

September 23, 20101

September 16, 2010

What Kind of Capitalism?

The Path to a High-Wage Society

September 5, 2010

How ACORN Was Framed: Political Controversy and Media Agenda-Setting

September 3, 2010

Perspectives on Politics

Fall 2010

Lessons from FDR: When the Right Cries Wolf, Bite Back

Ignore the fear-mongering on Social Security

August 14, 2010

Gay Marriage: The Tide is Turning And There's No Going Back

August 14, 2010

August 6, 2010

Baseball Justice

Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?

July 24, 2010

Screwing the Jobless: Are Republicans Heartless or Just Playing Hardball Politics?

July 23, 2010

July 20, 2010

Nurses Make a House Call

The Battle over School Funding: The View from Pasadena

July 15, 2010

California Journal of Politics and Policy

2010, Vol 2, Iss 1

ACORN's Kick-Ass Activism - New Book Reveals the Whole Story

Talking Points Memo

June 16, 2010

Does Public Housing Have a Future?

Talking Points Memo

June 8, 2010

In Pasadena, a Vote of Confidence for Public Schools

Guest View: Vote of confidence in public schools

May 13, 2010

Pasadena Star-News

May 12, 2010

Lessons from the Health-Care Wars

American Prospect

May 2010

Wall Street Greed vs. Human Need: Some Basic Facts

The Battle for Bank Reform on Wall Street and K Street

April 29, 2010

Talking Points Memo

April 26, 2010

Showdown on Wall Street and K Street

April 23, 2010

The Soda Tax Wars

The ACORN Conspiracy, Continued

April 20, 2010

Why ACORN Fell: The Times, Lies, and Videotape

March 23, 2010

The Right's Conspiracy Theory Attack on Frances Fox Piven

March 23, 2010

March 23, 2010

California in Crisis

Did He Ever Return?: The Forgotten Story of Charlie and the M.T.A.

March 2010

American Music

Spring 2010, Vol 28, Issue 1

The Greed Olympics: Banks and Insurers Battle for the Gold

ACORN Is Back in the News, but the News Still Gets it Wrong

February 15, 2010

A Poor Fit for Los Angeles

January 27, 2010

Los Angeles Business Journal

January 25, 2010

Organizing in the Obama Era: A Progressive Moment or a New Progressive Era?

The JohnMarshall Law Review

Spring 2009

Pass the Health Care Bill - Then Improve It

Joe Lieberman: Senator from Aetna

December 24, 2009

The Acorn Scandal Offers Key Lessons to All Charities

December 17, 2009

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

December 10, 2009

Obama's Biggest Mistake

December 10, 2009

ACORN "Not Guilty"

Waffling Democrats' Healthcare Hypocrisy

December 8, 2009

Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

December 1, 2009

Have the Media 'Falsely Framed' ACORN?

November 30, 2009

Editor and Publisher

November 24, 2009

The Tide Is Turning on Healthcare Reform

October 23, 2009

The war on ACORN

Humana: Profits Over People

October 22, 2009

Who Should Pay for Health Insurance Reform?

October 20, 2009

Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

October 16, 2009

Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

October 12, 2009

Demonstrations at CEO Mansions? Ho Hum

October 6, 2009

Columbia Journalism Review

October 5, 2009

Good Jobs, Healthy Cities

Community Organizing, ACORN, and Progressive Politics in America

October 2009

Vanderbilt University Press

October 1, 2009

First They Came For ACORN

Cigna CEO Hanway: Obstacle to Health Insurance Reform

September 26, 2009

The Huffington post

September 24, 2009

Citizens Confront WellPoint: Poster Child for Health Insurance Reform

"Go Out And Make Me Do It"

September 22, 2009

What If Rush Limbaugh's House Was on Fire?

September 10, 2009

The Wire: Bush-Era Fable about America's Urban Poor?

September 2, 2009

City & Community

September 2009; Vol 8, No 3

We Have the Hope. Now Where's the Audacity?

The Washington Post

August 30, 2009

Waiting for Obama to grab the liberal torch

The Salt Lake Tribune

August 28, 2009

Turn Up the Heat on the Insurance Industry

Protest and Progress in Pasadena

August 23, 2009

Huffington Post

August 21, 2009

Is Max Baucus the New Phil Gramm?

Health Care and Hate in Alhambra

August 15, 2009

August 14, 2009

Divorce -- Union Style

We Need More Protest to Make Reform Possible

August 12, 2009

Welcoming Labor to Hospitality

August 6, 2009

Los Angeles Business Journal

August 3, 2009

Labor Pains at UCLA

What is a Reasonable Compromise on Health Care Reform?

July 17, 2009

Progressives Take Back the Flag

July 8, 2009

Human Rights Activists Protest NBA-Linked Sweatshops

July 3, 2009

The Huffngton Post

June 14, 2009

Judging Mr. Mayor

Jewish Journal

June 10, 2009

LA Magazine's Failure: Irresponsible Journalism

Credit Card Sharks Crying Wolf

May 23, 2009

Beware: Big Business is Targeting Moderate Dems with Campaign Dollars and Crying Wolf Arguments

May 20, 2009

Crying Wolf Again: Big Business Gearing Up for a Fight Against Obama's Environmental Program

May 12, 2009

Pete Seeger at 90: Nobel Prize would be a fitting final tribute

May 11, 2009

Rabble

May 5, 2009

The Employee Free Act Choice: Economic Consequences and Political Implications

UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

May 2009

Crying Wolf -- The Same Old Song

Seek Social Change Through Activist Jobs

April 29, 2009

The Occidental Weekly

April 15, 2009

A New Wave of Community Organizers for the Obama Era

Why Advocates for Economic and Racial Justice Need The Employee Free Choice Act

April 11, 2009

Poverty & Race

March/April 2009, Vol.18, No.2

This Economy is a Real Killer

A Chicago, la lutte syndicale a payé

March 10, 2009

Le Monde Diplomatique

March 2009

Chicago union struggle pays off

Le Monde Diplomatique

March 2009

Stiglitz is Correct: Don't Bow to the Dow

Obama: Responsible Capitalism vs. Crony Capitalism

February 26, 2009

Will Charlie Ever Get Off That Train?

February 25, 2009

Arnold, GOP Legislators Get an "F" in Education

February 15, 2009

Peter Seeger Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize

February 9, 2009

The Chicago Sit-in: Has Obama's Election Spurred a New Mood of Union Activism?

January 19, 2009

Obama Embraces Chicago Factory Sit-In: Symbol of New Wave of Activism

December 17, 2008

December 9, 2008

Why We Need EFCA

Why Liberals Need Labor: The Upcoming Battle over Labor Law Reform

December 2, 2008

Shifting Gears: Transforming Obama's Campaign into a Movement for Change

December 2, 2008

Truck the GAP: Jeff the Trucker is a Better Symbol of America's Workers

November 6, 2008

Obama Would Bring Out the Best in Us: Who Could Lead at Home?

October 31, 2008

Measuring up

Pasadena Weekly

10/30/2008

Forward

October 23, 2008

The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game

The Kingston Trio and the Red Scare

October 22, 2008

Keeping Hope - And Housing - Alive in LA

October 14, 2008

How To Fix The Mortgage Mess 101

October 3, 2008

September 30, 2008

McCain No Friend to Vets

Community Organizers: Thank You, Sarah Palin

September 28, 2008

The Bush Bail-Out -- We Have Been Here Before

September 26, 2008

GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote

September 23, 2008

September 22, 2008

Obama's Youth Movement

From Organizer to Elected Official

September 15, 2008

September 8, 2008

GOP Mocks Public Service

Foreclosing on the Free Market

September 5, 2008

New Labor Forum

Fall 2008, Vol. 17, No. 3

On Labor Day, A Call To Restore U.S. Workers' Rights To Organize

John McCain Lives In Subsidized Housing

August 31, 2008

Baseball's Biggest Scandal

August 24, 2008

July 23, 2008

Hall of Fame Shut-Out

Memphis Murder Mystery? No, Just Mistaken Identity

July 22, 2008

Shelterforce

July 22, 2008

ACORN Under The Microscope

Will Obama Inspire a New Generation of Organizers?

July 14, 2008

What is a Housing "Crisis"?

July 1, 2008

National Housing Institute

June 26, 2008

Candidates Must No Longer Ignore America's Metro Areas

Huffington Post

June 12, 2008

Hillary's Checkers Speech

Terminator Budget Cuts Spur Protests Across Calif.

June 4, 2008

Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout

May 15, 2008

McCain Still Failing To Close With GOP Voters

May 15, 2008

Democrats Challenge GOP on Mortgage Mess

May 13, 2008

Will Foreclosures Translate into Votes?

May 12, 2008

Rooflines

May 12, 2008

Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama

Banned in Red Scare Boston

May 1, 2008

Labor's Self-Inflicted Wounds Threaten Progressive Movement

Spring 2008

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence

April 17, 2008

The Mortgage Mess and the Economic Meltdown: What McCain (and the rest of us) Should Learn from the Keating Scandal

April 2, 2008

Does Obama Really Have a Race Problem?

March 25, 2008

The Wire: Bush-Era Fable About America's Urban Poor

March 20, 2008

Winter 2008

The History of Hope

If McCain's A Moderate, I'm The Easter Bunny

February 19, 2008

The Year of the Organizer

February 10, 2008

White Voters Deserve More Credit

February 1, 2008

To Bring Change, Political Insiders and Outsiders Need Each Other

January 28, 2008

Hillary Clinton Should Be The Next Ted Kennedy

January 17, 2008

January 10, 2008

Bush's Class Warfare

The Conservative Origins of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis

December 21, 2007

NPR Debate Moderators All Wet on Sweatshop Labor

December 18, 2007

The bus stops here for First Transit contract

December 7, 2007

Paying for success

Pasadena Weekly

December 6, 2007

Pasadena Star-News

November 28, 2007

Tesco faces tests in L.A. ambitions

Daily News

November 26, 2007

Tesco Should Sign L.A.'s Community Benefits Agreement

The Los Angeles Business Journal

November 12, 2007

GOP Dirty Tricks Campaign Seeks to Divide California's Electoral Votes

Can Pasadena Become a City of Justice

November 4, 2007

Jewish Journal

October 19, 2007

Progressive Jews Organize

Progressive Jews Organize.. On the Radio

October 1, 2007

The Laura Flanders Show

October 1, 2007

John Edwards - Organizer-in-Chief

How Unions' Strength is Lessening in U.S.

September 27, 2007

Housing the Working Poor

Fall 2007

September 23, 2007

September 13, 2007

The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 3, 2007

Labor Day Report Card: A Mixed Bag for American Workers

The Grocery Union Gets It Bagged

September 3, 2007

LA Daily News

July 25, 2007

Riot and Reunion: Forty Years Later

Policies Should Be Changed to Help the Poor Get Richer

July 17, 2007

The Los Angeles Business Journal

May 28, 2007

L.A. Renters Strike Back

May 27, 2007

New Life on Leasing

How the Employee Free Choice Act Would Help Colleges

May 27, 2007

The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 11, 2007

Labor Law Reform Not Just For Unions

TomPaine.com

May 10, 2007

Great myths of L.A. housing

April 13, 2007

Magic housing solutions

Is rent control out of control?

April 12, 2007

Regulating Our Way to Prosperity

April 11, 2007

April 10, 2007

L.A.'s housing crisis

Community Organizing for What?

April 9, 2007

Transforming the City

April, 2007

Mine deaths follow weak regulations

National Catholic Reporter

February 16, 2007

The Missing Katrina Story

KPCC: Peter Dreier Discusses Living Wage

January/February 2007

KPCC Peter Drier Discusses deal over wages at LAX hotels

January 31, 2007

John Edwards¿ War on Poverty

January 31, 2007

January 30, 2007

The New War on Poverty

Guardian

January 29, 2007

Why He Was in Memphis

January 15, 2007

Livable Los Angeles

January 7, 2007

Not Just for the Gentry

The United States in Comparative Perspective

January 7, 2007

Contexts

Summer 2007

Jim Baker's War

L.A. Voters Sent Signal on Urgency of Providing More Affordable Housing

December 12, 2006

The Los Angeles Business Journal

November 27, 2006

Growing The Minimum Wage

Tompaine.com

November 27, 2006

Waging Victory

Now Republicans Control the Courts, Too

November 12, 2006

Jane Jacobs' Legacy

City & Community

September 2006

July 13, 2006

Act First, Ask Later

TomPaine.com

July 11, 2006

The Sweatshop Stops Here

Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor

June 12, 2006

Movement Mayor: Can Antonio Villaraigosa Change Los Angeles?

June 1, 2006

Summer 2006

Why Mine Deaths Are Up

The condo that ate my rental

May 25, 2006

John Edwards and the Politics of Poverty

May 21, 2006

Katrina and Power in America

April 15, 2006

Urban Affairs Review

March 2006

Falling Down on the Job on Labor Coverage

January 15, 2006

Frank Wilkinson's Legacy

Federal Housing Subsidies: Who Benefits and Why

January 7, 2006

Temple University Press

2006

Rosa Parks: Angry, Not Tired

ACORN And Progressive Politics in America

Winter 2006

ACORN: Past, Present and Prospects Conference

December 6 & 7, 2005

Will President Bush Reform the Mansion Subsidy?

Shelterforce

November/December 2005

Students Confront Sweatshops

Bush Helps Disaster Profiteers

November 9, 2005

The Mansion Subsidy

TomPaine.com

October 18, 2005

September 17, 2005

Katrina in Perspective

Builders Clucking Like Chicken Little

September 15, 2005

July 3, 2005

Lynching Lessons

Can a City Be Progressive?

June 17, 2005

June 15, 2005

Florida Gets It Right

Villaraigosa's Challenge: Governing Los Angeles in the Bush and Schwarzenegger Era

June 3, 2005

May 28, 2005

Labor Warrior

KCRW "Which Way L.A.?" Peter Dreier discusses the L.A. Labor Movement

May 13, 2005

KCRW

May 11, 2005

KPCC "AirTalk" Peter Dreier Discusses the Primary Election

KPCC Peter Dreier " A People's history of Los Angeles"

March 7, 2005

KPCC Peter Drier " A People's history of Los Angeles"

February 16, 2005

How the Media Compound Urban Problems

February 15, 2005

Goodbye, Shawn Green

The Jewish Journal

January 21, 2005

Journal of Urban Affairs

2005

A Moral Minimum Wage

December 6, 2004

Sowing Seeds

October 29, 2004

Union Makes Its Bed

October 25, 2004

Thank You, Shawn Green

Forward

October 8, 2004

Poverty in the Suburbs

Why Bush Won; What To Do Next: Analysis of the 2004 Election

September 2, 2004

KPCC "AirTalk" Peter Dreier Discusses Jocks for Justice

Fall 2004

Athletes deserve to be heard on significant political issues

August 24, 2004

The Detroit Free Press

August 2, 2004

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The L.A.Weekly

July 2-8, 2004

Urban suffering grew under Reagan

Newsday

June 10, 2004

Where Are the Jocks for Justice?

June 10, 2004

SweatX Closes Up Shop

Peter Dreier speak about Wal-Mart and the Grocery Workers Strike

July 1, 2004

Cal Poly Pomona

Lessons from the Picket Line

The LA Times, Alternet

March 3, 2004

A 'Local' Walkout Can't Work

March 3, 2004

Trying Times

Hot Talk with Saul Landau- Peter Dreier discusses Housing and Poverty

January 20, 2004

CSU Pomona

2004

KPCC "Air Talk" Peter Dreier discusses Low Income housing Policy

December 10, 2003

October 23, 2003

October 14, 2003

Why Require Only Poor to do Community Service

USA Today

October 6, 2003

Food Fault

Is Baseball Ready for a Gay Jackie Robinson

September 23, 2003

In These Times

August 15, 2003

The Future of Community Reinvestment

APA Journal

August 2003, Vol. 69, No. 4

A Liberal Push in LA City Hall

America's Urban Crisis a Decade After the Los Angeles riots

June 22, 2003

May/June 2003

Spring 2003

The National Civic Review

Spring 2003

Lobbying for Peace

February 10, 2003

Presidential Legacy

The Rich have Reason to Rejoice

January 27, 2003

Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place

December 23, 2002

Wage War

In These Times

December 4, 2002

City & Community

December 2002

The Spoiled Brats of Summer

August 4, 2002

New Life in Old Symbols

Help, Don't Hinder, Homeowners

July 4, 2002

Patriotism's Secret History

June 10, 2002

May 16, 2002

Housing: An LA Story

Social justice philanthropy: Can we get more bang for the buck?

April 15, 2002

Jackie Robinson's Legacy: Baseball, Race, and Politics

2002

Preaching and Politics

The Boston Review

April/May 2001

M.E. Sharpe

May 1, 2001

Shelter the Wealthy, Lock Out the Rest?

A Multiracial and Multilingual Progressivism Is Born in Los Angeles

March 26, 2001

California's Housing Crisis Affects Us All

March 11, 2001

September 25, 2000

Alternative LA

LA's Progressive Mosaic: Beginning to Find Its Voice

August 21, 2000

Renewing Bonds: Why the Housing Movement and Organized Labor Need Each Other

August 10, 2000

Shelterforce

May/June 2000

Why America's workers can't pay the rent

Living Wage: Big Money's Wolf in Sheep's Clothing In Santa Monica

Summer 2000

May 10, 2000

Sprawl's Invisible Hand

February 21, 2000

Wild Pitch

Labor Makes a Stand in Los Angeles Unions

December 20, 1999

The campus anti-sweatshop movement

October 8, 1999

How Do We Bridge the Housing Gap?

September/October 1999

Treat Welfare Recipients Like Workers: Pay Them a Wage

September 12, 1999

Looking to Sinclair for a Happy End to a Tale of Two L.A.s

August 29, 1999

Low-Wage Workers Miss a Tax Break

June 27, 1999

The Stirrings of a New Progressive Movement Can Be Heard

January 24, 1999

Reconnecting Campus and Community

September 27, 1998

Business Would Have Its Way

August 14, 1998

Educators Need to Join Labor's Fight Against Paycheck Protection Laws

May 28, 1998

The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 22, 1998

Union destruction act

The Myth of Student Apathy

May 8, 1998

Sierra Club Wrestles With the Nativism in Environmentalism

April 13, 1998

There's no racial justice without economic justice

March 1, 1998

Modern Housing for America

Winter 1998

Contemporary Sociology

November 1997

Saints, Sinners, and affirmative action

The Chronicle of Higher Education

October 24, 1997

The landlords stage a rent strike

Remembering Jackie Robinson

June 23, 1997

For Unions, Class Is In Again

March/April 1997

February 17, 1997

Courting Racial Justice

The new politics of housing

January/February 1997

The Journal of the American Planning Association

Winter 1997

Labor's Growing Pains

December 20, 1996

Canadian beacon

It's Business as Usual for Some Living-Wage Opponents

December 16, 1996

Democrats Should Lead on Labor Reform

December 8, 1996

Clinton Deserves a New Deal

October 11, 1996

August 30, 1996

Bob Dole on 'socialism'

Players must act like a labor union

June 1, 1996

The Struggle for Our Cities

May 19, 1996

Fed must make Wells Fargo a good corporate citizen of L.A.

Summer, 1996

Today He'd Champion a Wider Cause: Social Justice

February 18, 1996

January 15, 1996

Moving from the 'hood

US Housing policy at the crossroads: Rebuilding the Housing Constituency

Winter 1996

The Journal of Urban Affairs

1996

What Farrakhan left out

Boston's West End 35 years after the Bulldozer

December 15, 1995

Redlining, Not Red Tape

The New York Times

November 25, 1995

Planning

August 1995

Making the case for cities

Challenge

July 1995

Housing Policy's Moment of Truth

Putting cities on the national agenda

June 23, 1995

The Urban Affairs Review

May, 1995

California's single Player Initiative: What went wrong?

In These Greedy Times, Remember Jackie Robinson

Spring 1995

Progressive Politics and the Motor Voter Law

March 22, 1995

Third Force

December 31, 1994

Seismic Stimulus

Rent Control Myths and Landlord Money Housing

June 23, 1994

If They're Registered, Most Will Vote

June 17, 1994

Man-made Disasters' Double Punch

April 20, 1994

Its Mission isn't holding auctions

January 21, 1994

Ray Flynn's legacy: American cities and the progressive agenda

December 3, 1993

The National Civic Review

Fall 1993

From "projects" to communities: Redeeming public housing

The Journal of Housing

January/February 1993

Kinder, Gentler Canada

How to Expand Homeownership for More Americans

January 1, 1993

Challenge

March/April 1992

Debating the Causes of Homelessness

The Journal of the American Planning Association

Spring 1992

Redlining Cities: How Banks Color Community Development

Challenge

November/December 1991

Scapegoating Rent Control: Masking the Causes of Homelessness

The Journal of the American Planning Association

Spring 1991

American Nightmare: Homelessness

Challenge

March/April 1991

Downtown Development and Urban Reform: The Politics of Boston's Linkage Policy

The Urban Affairs Quarterly

March 1, 1991

The limits of localism: Progressive housing policies in Boston, 1984-1989

The Urban Affairs Quarterly

December 1, 1990

Nobody Home: The Housing Crisis Meets the Nineties

Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada

September 1, 1990