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Creating Opportunity Out of Tragedy-Why Occupying Abandoned Commercial Space May Be The Next Phase of the Civil Rights Struggle
Creating Opportunity Out of Tragedy- Why Occupying Abandoned Commercial Space May be the Next Phase of the Civil Rights Struggle
Dr Mark Naison
Fordham University
Whether or not auto bailout legislation passes, the US economy is about to experience an abandonment cycle comparable to what took place in the South Bronx in the 1970’s and in rustbelt cities throughout the [...]
Worldwide “Trickle Down” of Economic Collapse
Drip. Drip. Drip.
This morning, an otherwise beautiful wintry Friday morning, brings with it something far more chilling than any cold front. With the failure of the big 3 automotive bailout in the United States we look forward to an economic outlook more imperiled than any we have seen in generations. It is not simply two, [...]
Alliance of Youth Movements
Join Whoopi Goldberg (ABC’s “The View”), Under Secretary James K. Glassman (U.S. Department of State), Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook), Oscar Morales (One Million Voices Against the FARC) and other prominent attendees, as they engage pioneering leaders of youth movements from around the world at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit streamed live from New York City, [...]
Time to Use the “D” Word: “Recession” Doesn’t Begin to Describe Where The US Economy is Headed
For the last three months, as the American economy has gone into a free fall, economists and political leaders have parceled out the bad news in small, allegedly manageable proportions. Yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally confirmed what virtually every small business owner has known for some time- that the US economy is [...]
Solution to the Economic Crisis Requires Raising Wages and Redistributing Income
The roots of the current economic crisis in the United States are strikingly similar to those which provoked the Great Depression of the 1930’s. In each instance, the economic collapse followed a long period of economic expansion in which profits far outpaced wages, leading to massive speculation in unregulated financial products and the stimulation of [...]
The Streets Are Still Part of Bronx Hip Hop
Last October, when I was taking a group of people on a tour of the Bronx’s historic Black neighborhood, Morrisania, I noticed a group of twenty teenagers standing in a circle on the corner of 168th Street and Prospect Avenue, clapping their hands in rhythm, while one by one, people entered the circle and began [...]
Status of Forces Agreement and the Likely Attack on Iran
There are certain fundamentals to an international negotiation that simply cannot be massaged or altered, even with the political momentum fostered by America’s incoming president, Barack Obama.
In the last five years, Tehran and Washington have jockeyed for influence in Iraq and occasionally negotiated with each other to shape the country’s democratic Shia majority to their [...]
Georgian Peackeepers in South Ossetia
Georgian officials have made it clear that they neither support nor trust Russia’s military peacekeeping force in South Ossetia. But what are the alternatives to this presence? Georgian ministers and members of parliament have advocated two different alternatives. Both assume that the Russians will abandon their interests in South Ossetia, and both invite more questions [...]
Northern Lights: A Beautiful Collection of Pictures
I received these pictures in an Email today and thought I would share them. If you or anyone you know took these please notify me so I can attribute them. Thanks.
Post-Partisan Success Under President Obama
No one will ever accuse me of being a primarily bi-partisan fellow. I am however an enormous fan of good government, and a properly functioning Democracy, and in that light the victory of Saxby Chambliss here in the Georgia runoff yesterday has a silver lining.
I supported Jim Martin whole-heartedly for a number of reasons, [...]
