by Tom Angotti Seems wherever we New Yorkers go these days we hear about the great job “our”mayor’s doing. They say that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has cleaned up the streets, cut the crime rate and pulled the city out of debt. He’s made unruly New York more civil, going after taxi drivers, jaywalkers, street peddlers […]

by Barbara Loevinger Rahder The value of Planners Network for me is the opportunity it provides for networking with progressive planners, academics, and activists in other places, and the support and ideas that these contacts offer my work locally. In thinking about where PN might develop in the future, I’d like to see these strengths […]

by Ruth Yabes What should Planners Network and progressive planners be doing? How can I possibly answer that question since I don’t feel I am a true  progressive planner. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I don’t think I am alone among PN members. The classes I teach have not been as successful as […]

by Maryann Leshin The prospect of bringing together labor and community at the PN 1999 Conference brings to mind several critical discrepancies between the agendas of these two groups. I see labor and community from the perspective of someone who has worked for affordable housing and community development for the past two decades, a one-time […]

by Robert Pollin This past summer, security workers at LAX airport in Los Angeles began their first-ever union organizing drive. They were motivated, labor activists say, by the city’s foot-dragging in implementing a living-wage ordinance that had passed the previous year and guaranteed a minimum of $7.25 an hour (rising with inflation every July 1), […]