Privatization and Planning

  [quote] “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” -From the Great Law of the Iriquois Confederacy [/quote] Privatization and Planning The Fall/Winter New York Planners Network Forum featured three…

Categories: January/February 1999

Iraq Bombing : Another Lie

By Howard Zinn [Immediately after President Clinton announced the bombing of Iraq, Mother Joneswww.mojones.com called Boston University historian Howard Zinn and asked for his take. After a few minutes, he sent this forceful accusation.] President Clinton has just told another lie,…

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Apocalypse Now

By Edward W. Said It would be a mistake, I think, to reduce what is happening between Iraq and the United States simply to an assertion of Arab will and sovereignty on the one hand versus American imperialism, which undoubtedly…

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The Bombing of Iraq: U.S. War Crime

By Noam Chomsky The US and its increasingly pathetic British lieutenant want the world to understand – and in particular want the people of the Middle East region to understand – that “What We Say Goes,” as Bush defined his…

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The Postmodern Opportunity for Planning

By Paul Niebanck We are living at a time of huge new promise and opportunity for progressive planning. Long constrained by the rigidities associated with modernism, we are free now to help invent the future and construct the institutions that…

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Putting Housing on the Unions’ Agenda

by Chris Baker, Annica Cooper, Sahyeh Fattahi, Paula Bingham Goldstein, Jimmy Gomez, Daniel Inlender, Jacqueline Leavitt, Erika Licon, and Paula Sirola Union organizing around housing is barely a blip on the radar screen of unions in Southern California. Striking gains…

Categories: January/February 1999