This article is more than 2 years old Mott Haven in the South Bronx is a classic example where black and Hispanic residents experience a particularly insidious ‘environmental inequality’ Hazar Kilani in the Bronx, New York Thu 4 Apr 2019 (TheGuardian.com) Daniel Chervoni looked out at the busy street from the… Continue reading
On Twain’s birthday, remembering the writer’s anti-imperialism “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” By BRUCE MIRKEN NOVEMBER 30, 2021 (48hills.org) Pop quiz: Which famous American writer said the following?: “I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its… Continue reading
by Eve Kessler on November 30, 2021 (beyondchron.org) (This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA) A quiet revolution in public space management is spreading throughout New York City — and it is not being undertaken by the city bureaucrats who are paid to oversee our streetscape, but by Business Improvement Districts, private entities that… Continue reading
NOVEMBER 29, 2021 (counterpunch.org) BY CHUCK CHURCHILL Photograph Source: PBS Newshour – CC BY 2.0 A recent Atlantic article by David Brooks, “The Terrifying Future of the American Right: What I Saw at the National Conservative Conference” lays out the latest thinking on the Right that contains some revealing language echoing the rhetorical techniques… Continue reading
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) addresses thousands of demonstrators from across the country as they rally in support of a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on September 21, 2021. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)… Continue reading
Plus: more taxpayer dollars for bad cops, and 248 people locked up beyond the legal time for a speedy trial because SF courts are lagging … that’s The Agenda for Nov. 29-Dec. 5 By TIM REDMOND NOVEMBER 28, 2021 (48hills.org) The full Board of Supes will have a chance Tuesday/30… Continue reading
Few Events – NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for other listings of events…. Continue reading
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business Matt Jancer February 5, 2018 (smithsonianmag.com) It’s October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, and Arizona is not yet a state. The O.K. Corral is quiet, and it’s had an unremarkable existence for the two years it’s… Continue reading
