$1 billion coming to Kensington Expressway redesign
The project seeks to fully cover the portion of Route 33 known as the Kensington and reconnect the Hamlin Park, Cold Spring and MLK neighborhoods on the city’s East Side. Howard Riedel May 6,...
RIGHT 2 THE CITY Blog
The Limits of “Lived Experience”
By Erica Canes
Read the full article from Hood Communist, here.
The language of identity is important but can also be used to erase those who should be lifted up.
Brown proposes increases in Buffalo property taxes, user fees
By Deidre Williams
Read the full article from Buffalo News, here.
For only the second time in his 16 years as Buffalo’s mayor, Bryon Brown proposes to increase property taxes.
His $568 million spending plan for 2022-23 recommends increasing residential property taxes by 5% and commercial property taxes by 6.6%.
To Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap, Help Entrepreneurs of Color Own Property
By Willow Lung-Amam and Nohely Alvarez
Read the full article from *CityLab, here.
The Biden administration has focused on homeownership in its attempts to address U.S. racial wealth disparities. There’s another kind of real estate that can help build wealth for small business owners.
Rather than sell their own blood, Indiana students go on strike
By Jake Watkins
Read the full article from Workers Today, here.
It is common for student workers to get second jobs and sell plasma to stay afloat,” John Ferrand from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition told People’s World. Ferrand said that salaries at Indiana University can be as much as $20,000 below a living wage,” as a calculator developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lists for Monroe County Indiana]”
The Class War Is Raging at Amazon’s Staten Island Complex
By Alex N Press
Read the full article from Jacobin, here.
The atmosphere was electric at a prevote rally Sunday in Staten Island where workers prepared to cast ballots on whether to become the second Amazon facility to join the Amazon Labor Union. Bernie Sanders was among the speakers.
Amazon’s Union Busting Is Subsidized By The Government
By Matthew Cunningham-Cook
and Julia Rock
Read the full article from The Lever, here.
The retailer’s anti-labor activities could be violating the terms of multi-million subsidy deals it has scored in New York.
Gaza: A Vision Of What Capital & Empire Intend For The Rest Of The Globe
By Rainer Shea
Read the full article from Workers Today, here.
In this era of decline for U.S. imperialist hegemony and contraction in capital, colonialism increasingly asserts itself through crude and haphazard exercises in profit-driven brutality.
High Court upholds excluding Puerto Ricans from aid for disabled and blind
By Nina Totenberg
Read the full article from NPR, here.
he U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that residents of Puerto Rico are ineligible for a federal welfare program.
The Legacy of McCarthyism on Social Group Work: An HistoricalAnalysis
By Janice Andrews and Michael Reisch
Read the full article from The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, here.
This paper explores the impact of McCarthyism on the ideology, education,
practice, and public image of group work. The authors argue that the
witchhunts that occured during the period and its climate of widespread
fear purges and political conservatism diminished the gains the social work
profession had made in the 1930s and 1940s through its participation in
progressive activities and left the profession, particularly social group work
ill-prepared for the issues and activism of the 1960s and 1970s