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Organizing Against Bank of America in Enemy Territory
This week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco,...
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Grabbing the Bolt-Cutters with Take Back the Land
In Rochester, New York, activists are fighting to win control of Catherine Lennon-Griffin’s foreclosed, bank-owned home as a community land trust, at her request — making this one of the first examples...
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Sunset Park Tenants Launch Rent Strike
On the front stoop of a four-story brownstone in Brooklyn, three women sat and strategized.“We should have broken down the door yesterday,” Sara Lopez lamented. “The day they help us,” she said, waving...
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What's Your Sandy Story
Sandy Storyline is a participatory documentary about hurricane Sandy and the efforts to recover and rebuild our neighborhoods.“If I learned one thing from the storm, it was that the memories ...are the...
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Battle for the Rockaways
By Laura GottesdienerOn the bumper-to-bumper commute to the Upper East Side on Dec. 4, Luis Casco wanted to know one thing: Couldn’t he just talk how he would back at his church in Far Rockaway?“You...
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Occupy Homes, One Year On and Growing Daily
“We are about to take this house over, okay?” shouted Reneka Wheeler, speaking slowly and emphasizing each word as she stood in front of a vacant house in southwest Atlanta two weeks ago. It wasn’t...
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Rebuilding the Rebuilders
Diego Ibanez and Laura Gottesdiener Co-Directors Federal Office of Emergency ManagementReconstructing urban centers after massive weather-related disasters is a quixotic mandate, which is why we,as...
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Obama's One-Sided Partnerships
The split screen during the State of the Union address was a nice touch. After all, what is more practical, more common sense — more bipartisan, perhaps — than charts? My favorite chart was the one...
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