In Portland, a transportation project has raised the ire of historic neighborhood residents, many who feel the city’s sudden will to improve safety on the street is conveniently timed, as most of the neighborhood’s historically black community have now been dispersed to other neighborhoods and a new, more affluent white community has taken their place. … Read more
The wild buffalo herd of Yellowstone National Park represent the only genetically pure buffalo left in the world. They need to survive and be safe. Unfortunately, the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, has reinstituted a hunt, and in 2008 over 1,600 Yellowstone buffalo were killed. There are only about 2,000 of these wild buffalo remaining. … Read more
Off and on, I’ve been reading wonderful, radical, and humbling writings put together by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. I found some resources on their site which help simplify their argument: non-profit/non-governmental organizations often enable the systems they claim to disable. WHAT … Read more
After for working in Camden, NJ for the past year, I’ve had the experience of visiting an impoverished, third-world country right across the Delaware river. It is hard to describe it’s condition, but two recent local media pieces have tried: From a recent Philadelphia City Paper article: Most of Camden looks like the deadly Badlands … Read more
Peak Johnson, who I worked with closely on the teen-run community newspaper, North Philly Metropolis, is featured in an article in this week’s PW. I think it’s an interesting look at issues within our schools, higher-ed and my last program’s college access program. http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15980