Urban Politics | Lester Spence

A model for…food citizenship??

by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics | 3 comments

According to the Worldwatch Institute, the value of global trade in food has tripled since 1961, and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In North America food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500...

Our Time is Not the 1930s (from Grace Boggs)

by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics | 13 comments

I got this from Grace Boggs. Worth reading, posting, and re-posting: ….. Our Time is Not the 1930s By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008 Two weeks ago in my first post- election column, I wrote that I will not be among those organizing or...

The Big Three and Our Right to Rethink the City

by admin | Nov 24, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Marc Steiner Show, The Future of the City, Urban Politics | 9 comments

In discussing whether the auto industry deserves a bailout, we talked about the role of the auto industry in creating the middle class. The work protections that we have, the work week that we have, the benefits we have, all come from the “massification”...

Should the Automotive Industry get a bailout?

by admin | Nov 21, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics | 8 comments

I’m a Ford kid. I graduated from the high school I did because of Ford money. Graduated from undergrad out of Michigan because of Ford money. Went to grad school, got married to the woman i did, and had the children i did, indirectly because of Ford money. But...