This weekend marks the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. But I want to focus on one he made four years later, exactly a year before his murder. On 4th April 1967 he spoke at Riverside Church in Harlem about Vietnam, breaking his silence… Continue reading The Fierce Urgency of Now
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In a New York minute…
…everything can change, so the song goes. Well, things have certainly changed here in the past 24 hours and since I wrote this rather gloomy post four days ago. It’s a good reminder of how volatile politics can be, but also, that progressive movements must be ready to seize those moments. Two things happened last… Continue reading In a New York minute…
On the edge of eviction
Today, about 7 million Americans stand on the edge of homelessness. The national ban on evictions (which was never comprehensive) has expired and so landlords can resume or commence legal action to force people out of their homes, even if they’ve lost income, through no fault of their own, due to COVID. Meanwhile, the pandemic… Continue reading On the edge of eviction
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