Market Meltdown Stalls Whitening of Harlem: Gentrifiers Go Bust
A Black Agenda Radio interview with Nellie Hester-Bailey, executive director, Harlem Tenants Council by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
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The financial crisis has at least temporarily stalled the ethnic cleansing of Harlem by predatory developers and the investment banksters that back them. However, the gentrifiers’ champion, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, seeks to win another term in office in order to finish the racial and class makeover of Harlem and other non-white communities. He is abetted by a host of “supine” Black office-holders ever eager to displace their own people.
Racist barbarity is on the march, with Missouri’s men and women in blue in the vanguard.
You can’t build long-term power by letting white supremacists, nor the government, harm and kill people with impunity.
6p to 9p on Saturday, October 26 at the People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York City.
A project for cooperative economic democracy in the Deep South seeks to break free from big capital’s “value chains.”
Amid a fuel shortage crisis and continuing corruption allegations, the popular classes in Haiti have been on the streets daily to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse.
