Category: Housing & Community

Incapacity, White Supremacy, and the Destruction of Detroit

By Mike Kolhoff

The destruction of Detroit continues according to the plans of Michigan’s Teapublican-controlled state government. Their racist intentions are obvious. They want to drive out the existing African American population, and replace it with one more to their …

Posted: June 30th, 2014 under Anti-Racism, Housing & Community.

White Supremacy and the Looting of Detroit

By Mike Kolhoff

The court has ruled, so the legalized looting of Detroit will go ahead as Governor Snyder has planned. The Emergency Manager has ordered the DIA to provide him with a list of the values of the many …

Posted: January 29th, 2014 under Anti-Racism, Austerity, Economy, Housing & Community.

Anarcho-Syndicalism and Principles of Urban Planning

By Scott Rittenhouse

Urban Planning is neither boulevards for conquerors, nor a landscape for the palaces of the rich, nor an opportunity for land speculators, nor a design opportunity for artists, nor a conspiracy for social engineers.

Urban planning is …

Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Ecology, Economy, Housing & Community, Ideas.

Wage Theft in America – Two Approaches

From Trial by Fire

Mercedes Herrerra is a 39-year-old Mexican immigrant living in Houston, Texas. Working primarily for staffing agencies, she first started cleaning houses and sports facilities in 1996. Paid meager wages, working long hours and travelling some distance

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Posted: January 14th, 2011 under Housing & Community, Labor.

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