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Issue: June 2, 2010
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Articles in this issue:
Palestine Solidarity: One Woman’s Journey New Yorkers Escalate Demand for Immigration Reform Tenants’ Voice: Gov’s Rent Bill Would Retain Vacancy Decontrol FIRST PERSON: Teaching Under Assault: Two visions of education clash as Bloomberg prepares to lay off 6,400 teachers spOILed: BP Gas Station Targeted Community Calendar Reader Comments EXCLUSIVE: Illustrating the Crash: New book shows how we got into the Great Recession … and how we can get out of it. ANALYSIS: Finance Bill Misses the Mark: We need to restructure Wall Street, not just regulate it ‘Soldiers Were Opening Fire’: An Account of the Flotilla Attack INTERVIEW with ‘Green Gone Wrong’ Author Heather Rogers ‘Undercurrents’ Makes an Ecological Museum of New York City ESSAY: A Look at Art and Public Pedagogy in New York City Take it to the Streets: A Review of Street Art from City Walls to the Silver Screen ARTICLES
By Alex Kane
By Renée Feltz and Mary Annaïse Heglar Posted in Immigration, Local
Wearing a clerical collar, a pressed black suit and plastic handcuffs, Bishop Orlando Findlayter climbed with purpose into the back of a New York Police Department truck and took a seat. read more »
By Steven Wishnia Posted in Local, Steve Wishnia
After more than a year of pressure from tenants urging the repeal of the state’s vacancy-decontrol law, Gov. David Paterson has finally weighed in. read more »
By Norm Scott Posted in Local
After teaching elementary education for 27 years at PS 147 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was offered a technology job at the district level in 1998. read more »
By Indypendent Staff Posted in Local
Some 100 people demonstrated May 28 against British Petroleum at a Manhattan gas station on the corner of Houston Street and Lafayette Avenue. read more »
By Seth Tobocman, Eric Laursen and Jessica Wehrle Posted in National
When the end of the housing bubble sent Wall Street into a nosedive, it created a disastrous economic downturn that the rest of us are still struggling to survive. Two years later, Congress is trying — and failing — to pass a financial reform to stop the lending practices that led to the bubble and put the banking behemoths that speculated on it on a tight leash. read more »
By Robert Reich
Posted in National
The most important thing to know about the 1,500-page financial reform bill passed by the U.S. Senate on May 20 — now on the way to being reconciled with the House bill — is that it is regulatory. It does nothing to change the structure of Wall Street. read more »
By Indypendent Staff
Posted in International
On May 30, Israeli commandos stormed an unarmed flotilla of a half-dozen ships bringing humanitarian supplies to the people of the Gaza Strip. At least nine activists are reported to have been killed and dozens more injured when Israeli troops opened fire on the passengers of one of the six ships. read more »
By Irina Ivanova If you’ve ever taken comfort in buying “certified fair trade” instead of just organic, or optimistic about driving a fully electric vehicle within the next five years, you’ll have to think again. read more »
By Mike Newton Poor George. Lonesome George, the subject of a video installation by Rachel Berwick: he’s a 90-year-old tortoise from the Galápagos Islands who, thanks to some overeager biologists, is now the last surviving member of his subspecies. That’s how it is to think about ecosystems in 2010 — you have to consider The End. read more »
By Mimi Luse Posted in Culture
In the late 1990s, an art movement called relational aesthetics undertook, according to theoretician Nicholas Bourriaud, to put art to work. The idea was that art-making would be a socially progressive act, repairing the social gaps identified by Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone: the fragmenting of community, the demise of collaboration and so on. read more »
By Arturo Conde For the most part, Exit Through the Gift Shop follows Thierry Guetta, a French amateur cameraman with long sideburns that merge with his mustache from under a fedora. The owner of a vintage clothing shop in Los Angeles, Guetta is an obsessive recorder who shoots practically every moment of his life on video, collecting tape after tape, without ever watching them. read more »
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