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Ratner was given 22 acres of prime Brookprime of acres 22 given wasRatner Near the film’s finale, Mayor Michael Actually, no. Between the success of It was two parallel universes: one where tyMarkowitz Knicks and former New York star Bernard King to unveil Frank Gehry’s model of 16 Gehry skyscrapersdescribed “neighborhoodasa it built and almostwere anthere though even scratch” from arena. 1,000 people living in the proposed project footprint — many of whom had been there for generations — and small 35 businesses. lyn real estate, hundreds of millions of dol lars in public subsidies, and a zoning override without eminentthe vote of a domain single elected official in returnfor his promiseyearstenthatmega-inthe 2,250yield wouldaffordproject
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However, However, in its pre-trial appeal of For As previously reported on tactics after a dramatic Sept. 12 rulingU.S.DistrictKatherine Judge Forrestdeclar by ing unconstitutional the portion of the Na tional Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that authorizes indefinite detention without trial of those who ... “substantially forces engaged support in hostilities against U.S. the or its coalition partners.” Forrest had granted a permanent the enforcement injunction of this against statuteAmendment suit inbrought by Chris a Hedges, First Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg and other activists against the issuethis Forrestforcedto unusualwas con 2012 NDAA. Judge stitutional ruling at a pre-trial stage of the lawsuit because of the tactics of the admin istration lawyers,who flatly refused to address Forrest’s Judge questions bemight who about subject to detention under the wording of the act. vague After being stone walled five by the times Department of Justice lawyers, she concluded reluctantly Hedges, who that interviewed has quoted members of and Hamas and other designated terror ists for his books, faced the possibil ityrunning of afoul its avoid withoutknowingthe law to of how provisions. rest’s injunction, the government tactics changed and asserted that prosecutingtion of it journalists organizersor had no inten such as Kai Wargalla, an activist on behalf of Julian Assange. The fact that the DoJ of fered this assertion only on appeal, only af ter District Judge Forrest held a hearing on the constitutional dangers, is unbecomingat best. It is unseemly for government law yers to change their theory of the case mid- stream, and it is improper for any lawyer to offer new facts at the appeals stage, as it is the trial judge’s role to determine facts and decide who is telling the truth. dent
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radicalbookstore activist | centerfair trade | cafe HUFFPOST QUEBEC HUFFPOST ------Quebec’s successful student strike shows Students and their families across North While the unions were financially sup TOO EARLY thismeans.allwhat The say to earlytoo is It students who struck are tired, They but won all elated. of their “realistic” demands. Quebec is one onlyof three provinces to see no tuition increases in the What last appeared few at first years. to be a single-issuestrike against tuition hikes provided impor tant inspiration and lessons about defeating neoliberalism. that there is no substitute for building sus tainable, democratic and progressive mass organizations like those started by Quebec students decades ago. Those strikers, today’s parentsthe of they andnow students are are impressed and gratifiedto see that their organizing efforts paid have off. America are being forced to pay skyrocket ing tuition as governments attempt to aban theireducation;supportdon for meanwhile, private schools cherry-pick students wealthy families. from Many will have to decide whether higher education is worth the debt. Quebec’s difficult lesson is clear:and building supporting large mobilize a critical mass of students, organizations parents that and teachers is the only model that can suc cessfully make education affordable. Scott Montreal is involved politicalactivities inorganizing, fo and a with progressive cus on Palestine solidarity and health care. This article was WagingNonviolence.org. originally published on Theybeen have supportiveother progres of sive sive demands, recognizing the colonial oc landsopposingnativeand“Plan cupationof Nord,” the anti-indigenous state-sponsored plan for development of north Quebec mining and by development corporations. portive of the striking student associations, they didn’t mobilize their members, which disappointment.major a was theyHaddone working-classtheirbroaderso, demandsare something the movement might be striving for now, instead of gettingcompeting capitalist parties. distracted by ------(red squares), forced carrés rouges Students participating in the five-month strike frequently gathered for massive street Immediately after the PQ took over in mid- in over took PQ the after Immediately Political divisions in the student move $200 million repressing the protests and sus andprotestsmillion $200repressingthe pending and adjusting the school schedule, which is more than the government would recoupedhave from any tuition increase. the PQ follows through: during its last period last its during through: follows PQ the in from power 1994 to 2003, it attacked the nurses union and attempted to raise tuition by 30 percent. The PQ is a neoliberal par DIVISIONS The strike was composed almost entirely of French-speaking students, many of saw whom this as a battle for the future of “their Quebec.” Race, nationalism and ethnicityloom large in Quebec’s political movements and often contribute them. to Though divisions most within of communities” and Quebec’s immigrants “ethnic are French- speaking and educated in French, they were strike.due therepresentedThisin iswell not at least in part to systemic racial divisions. Most strikers were liberal arts students, not those in the engineering, science and busi The students and then the citizenry, wear ing their feat. The Quebec nationalist Parti (PQ),cois Québéwhich supported thestudents’ de mand for a moratorium on the tuition hike, a minoritywon government. it announcedSeptember, a tuition freeze, re scinded most of the anti–student strike Law support Quebec’s ended 78), Bill (formerly 12 for shale gas fracking and pledged to down shut Quebec’s only nuclear power These plant. measures are popular, but the move ment must maintain pressure to ensure that ty that, like the Democrats, absorbs union many members and progressive Quebecois nationalists into its ranks and maintains thinly a disguised antipathy to Muslims and immigrants.non-French-speaking ness programs immigrants. by favored ment remain as well. The Coalition large de l’association pour une solidarité syndicaleétudiante (CLASSE), which organized half of the strikers and mobilized direct most actions, of wants free the tuition as a goal. VICTORY: ELECTION VICTORY the Liberal government into The government a finally stalemate. called an election,in which the Liberals suffered a major de demonstrations to bring attention to the negative impact of tuition hikes. ------les en , or Maple Printemps Erable , or child-kings (a reference to the
The students who participated in the There were more than 100 night-time The strategy of the students was simple: Since most of the demonstrations were Quebec’s five-month student strike Over the last four decades, Quebec stu In Quebec, most colleges and universities Also, what Americans may findvery dif Nicknamed Spring, the strike sparked a criticism. great deal Although of most Canadiansport their sup universal free healthcare,think many that students should pay tion. for Detractors educa called the students fants-rois spoiled young Louis XIV). strikeheavypaida price. Many beatenwere by police; more suffered than200,000quences.More academic studentsmain conse tainedthestrike months, five for with 3,387 arrested (including the author of this piece) and hundreds injured — some seriously — plasticby bullets and batons. demonstrations, including theatrical, aero bic and nearly naked protests sands of with participants, thou and usually anotherthree or four daily demonstrations or direct actions, like blocking bridges, schools and streets. organize, hold general assemblies,take the to it streets and resist the corporate strike, state. Many thousands who were not dents joined stuin. After the government made student demonstrations illegal on May 18, they morphed overnight into protests, noisy with people street banging on pots and pans. It truly felt like the neighborhood was inout the streets breaking the law. declared illegal, they were some of the larg est acts of civil disobedience in the history of North America: three involved as many as 300,000 protesters. Quebec spent about
By Scott Montreal MONTREAL,secretThePsst!isQuebec — foughtout: the We law and won. we against college and university tuition hikes has ended in victory. Coming on the heels of the Arab Spring, the against disastrous European austerity policies and the revolts threeinstudents Quebecmovement, Occupy province-wide associations tough and refused to back down struck, against the hung raiserepressiveLiberal to plan government’s years five over $1,625) percent(or tuition 75 — winning a major battle against neoliber Quebec Student Strike Wins Big Wins Strike Student Quebec alism that was all but ignored by themedia. U.S. collectively dentshave struck against tuition hikes and cuts to loans and grants, but this strike was by far the most ferocious, draw ing battle lines between the corporate state and the general population. didn’t But risk students their schoolval communal of a revolt thiswas — money year just to save ues and passion, built on a solid foundation of mass province-wide democratic associa - tions and a culture militancy. of are public. Before the strike, Quebec gradu ate students’ tuition averaged $2,624, lessthan the average $3,000 tuition munity for college com in the example, United Dawson Community States. For College Montana costs $3,006 a year in in tuition and fees — 15 to 30 times as much as Dawson College in Montreal, attend.students to $200for and tween $100 which charges be ferent, is that the students did not look the political to parties for salvation — nor did theyorganize behind anyparty after having forced a provincial election. 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and Avatar “You “You going to be a bad moth They cackled as he went on. In films, we repeatedly see Big Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Alien: Resurrection American cinema repeats the old Marxist idea that we are by shaped labor. And often the films end with the lesson that only when we becomesomething other than our in 1987’s 9 selves can we destroy the systemthat created us. most recently in 2009’s formed into food or a monster, an alien or cyborg by corporations. erfucker,” mid-level Bob Morton says executive who to RoboCop, stomps streets of Detroit to into bring law and the order. The Detroit chaotic in that filma is Republican wet city dream. gone bankrupt, taken It’s over by a a large corporation that replaces workers with tireless theButmessage thefilm of a not is machines. simple endorsement of a corporate hecklers at a campaign event last August.They groaned andhis eye brows shot up, “Of courseare. Everything they corporations earn ultimately goes to people.” They let loose a loud raucous barnyard laughter. He patted the air taming as a if wild animal, pockets “People’s — friend.” human beings my Hearing a rich manflows directly say from money businesses to people after Walls Street crashed the economy was just too much.But more than behindwasguffaws. the livedAnAmer experience ican counter-narrative exists that says, no, corporations are not hu man and neither are for them.work those who Business as a that malevolent Borg-like entity destroys the vidual. indi In 1973’s Island C By Nicholas Powers Corporate Dystopia Corporate Hollywood and the and Hollywood “ 18 OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 16, 2012 THE INDYPENDENT INDY INDYPENDENT.ORG/SUBSCRIBE OR GO TO YORK,10012NEW NY 666 BROADWAY, SUITE 510 THE INDYPENDENT ORDER TO SIMPLY SEND ACHECK OR MONEY ISSUES FOR ONLY $20! SPECIAL HOLIDAY RATE OF 10 YOU ABOUT. CARE HOLIDAY SOMEONE TO SEASON AGIFT SUBSCRIPTIONGIVE THIS INDY SHARE THE Jenny Hurwitz &Talbot Katz; Jay Byrd featuring Toby Fagenson, Ray Korona, Joel Woody Guthrie Centennial Tribute (PVC Tlamsa and The Solidarity Singers of the Landy, Anne Price, Steve Suffet, Gina Community Church of Church NewCommunity York Unitarian-Universalist New Jersey Industrial Union Council Suggested Donation: $18 TDF; or $10 PVC members Such As Us; Amalgamated Muck More less if choose; you if can’t; you away turned one no 32 Saturdays at 8p.m. years of celebrating of peace doors open 7:30; wheelchair accessible 7:30;wheelchair open doors SAGE Singers; Linq 40 E. 35th St. ( St. 35th E. 40 www.peoplesvoicecafe.org New York, 10016 NY 212-787-3903 Nov 10 Nov 17 Oct 27 and resistance and benefit) Nov 3 Madison/Park
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