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RADICAL ELECTION GUIDE, p8 Issue #115, February 1 – 21, 2008 the indypendentA FREE PAPER FOR FREE PEOPLE The Casino Economy Goes BUST p6 GINO BARZIZZA tear down the Wall, p12 the Return of Winter Soldier, p5 Remembering talkin’Brad Will, about p6 Revolution, p14 nyc.indymedia.org • indypendent.org • us.indymedia.org community calender FEBRUARY Please send event announcements to Jessica Lee, Nicholas Powers and [email protected]. Steven Wishnia will discuss the super Tuesday Primary results and how to The next editorial meeting for The creatively respond this year’s elections. Indypendent is Tuesday, Feb 5 at 7pm. Freebird Books and Goods, 4 W. 43rd St, Room 311. All are welcome. 123 Columbia St. (Red Hook, Bklyn) freebirdbooks.com FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH! FRI FEB 8 ThE INDYPENDENT SAT FEB 2 7:30pm • $5-$10 suggested P.O. 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Volunteers 7pm • Free African Americans in politics from the WORKSHOP: “WORKING WITH UN- write and edit articles, take photographs, do forum: 2008 elections. 1800s to the presidential candidacy of DOCUMENTED YOUTH IN THE Next Issue, February 22. design work and illustrations, help distribute Indypendent contributors Arun Gupta, Senator Barack Obama. JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM.” papers, update the website and more! The In- dypendent reserves the right to edit articles for length, content and clarity. The Indypendent is the newspaper project of reader comments the New York City Independent Media Center, which is affiliated with the global Indymedia Response to “A Crack Opens in was doing to their older siblings knowing it is radical media, takes tant. Populism is dangerous: it is movement (indymedia.org), an international Drug Law Sentencing,” Jan. 12: and decided for themselves that a stab at critique. What we get to the promise of the tyranny of the network that is dedicated to fostering grassroots crack was bad news. This is read is an okay “on the ground” majority on any subject. media production. NYC IMC sponsors three Mandatory minimum prison sen- not to say nothing can be done piece with some superficial analy- Principled stances, like those of other projects, the children’s newspaper Indy- tences have done little other than about hard drugs like crack or sis on the race. So you have good Kucinich, Gravel and Paul, are di- Kids, the IndyVideo news team and the NYC give the land of the free the high- methamphetamine, the latest reporting and then you fall short rectly opposed to this. Most poli- IMC open publishing website (nyc.indymedia. est incarceration rate in the world. headline grabber. Access to sub- on explaining it all to the reader. ticians are populists. These guys org). NYC IMC relies on volunteer participa- The deterrent value of tough drug stance abuse treatment is critical. —Anonymous aren’t going anywhere, largely tion and is open to anyone who is interested. laws is grossly overrated. During Diverting resources away from because they aren’t populists. the crack epidemic of the 1980s, prisons and into cost-effective —John VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS: New York City chose the zero treatment would save both tax Responses to “Populists Need Sam Alcoff, Nicholas Allanach, Chris Anderson, tolerance approach, opting to dollars and lives. Not Apply,” Jan 12: Steven Arnerich, Eleanor J. Bader, Kazembe arrest and prosecute as many of- —Robert Sharpe, MPA Balagun, Gino Barzizza, Charlie Bass, Bennett J. Baumer, Lani Bouwer, Jed Brandt, Mike fenders as possible. Meanwhile, Populism does not equal prin- Burke, José Carmona, Kepfram Cauley, Matt Washington, D.C., Mayor Mar- cipled stance. Neither presidential Cavanaugh, Rahul Chadha, Susan Chenelle, ion Barry was smoking crack and Response to “Voters Desperate candidates Dennis Kucinich nor Ellen Davidson, Jeff Faerber, Renee Feltz, Leo America’s capital had the high- for Solutions, Candidates Offer Ron Paul are populists. Poll watch- Garcia, Shira Golding, Samantha Gorelick, Liana est per capita murder rate in the Soaring Rhetoric,” Jan 12: ers are populists. I’ve continually THE INDYPENDENT Grey, Mary Heglar, Alex Kane, Ruth Kelton, country. Yet crack use declined in read Kucinich and Paul being de- Jennifer Lew, Samantha Lewis, Gary Martin, both cities simultaneously. This is an okay article.