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Opinion | I’m an anti-capitalist Material Girl — and you can be too

By Grace DeLallo, Assistant Opinions Editor • May 24, 2022

I am a self-proclaimed anti-capitalist Material Girl — and you can be too. And don’t worry if you’re not a girl, because anyone can be a MG at heart.

Opinion | Body acceptance is a means of anti-capitalist resistance

By Paige Wasserman, For The Pitt News • February 24, 2022

If you’re struggling with body image, reframing self-love as resistance can be very helpful.

Opinion | You know what tastes better than Starbucks? Unionization.

By Grace DeLallo, Assistant Opinions Editor • January 19, 2022

Starbucks should prioritize unionization for all of their stores instead of fighting it — putting better working conditions and protections ahead of capitalist pursuits at the expense of its workers. Although there is such a long way to go in the fight against big businesses and capitalism exploiting workers, we must have solidarity within the working class if we are to see any meaningful change in the next decade or so.

Opinion | The fashion industry hates fat people and the lower class more than it loves money

By Grace DeLallo, For The Pitt News • September 16, 2021

Inclusive sizing and affordable pricing would improve clothing brands' reach and, most likely, their profits. Yet, for most brands, these seem secondary to deep-seated disdain for fat people and the poor.

Opinion | Stop wasting your time with the lie of ethical consumerism

By Lucas DiBlasi, Senior Staff Columnist • June 1, 2021

For one thing, ethical consumerism needs to impact companies’ bottom line to change their behavior, and “voting with your wallet” almost never actually does so.

Opinion | Reject manipulative advertising

By Jack Troy, Senior Staff Columnist • April 15, 2021

We must reject disingenuous, hollow marketing to regain some autonomy as consumers.

Opinion | All mainstream media networks serve the same goal — make tons of money

By Ethan Tessler, Senior Staff Columnist • April 7, 2021

There is no objective mass media, there is only corporate mass media.

Editorial | Stop commodifying activism

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • October 8, 2020

When we turn to capitalism and start selling goods with funny taglines, it distracts from larger issues of politics and justice that need to be recognized and advocated for.

Opinion | The ideal way to corporatize LGBTQ+ identity

By Grace McGinness, Staff Columnist • June 12, 2019

While the corporatization can be bad, there are ways to ethically market LGBTQ+ inclusiveness. Companies need to adopt these principles, and it is our job to hold them accountable.