Development

A Community Fights The County To Show Black Ancestor’s Lives Matter

January 22, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Educate! Capitalism, Development, Slavery, White Supremacy

Clearing the FOG co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition about the struggle in her community to reclaim an African cemetery currently buried under a parking lot. Since discovering the cemetery, residents of Bethesda have uncovered the brutal treatment of Africans who lived there starting with being worked to death on a tobacco plantation that later turned to forced sexual exploitation and breeding for profit. Once they were freed, African residents set up a thriving community that was then taken over through gentrification. It is an amazing story of fortitude for those who lived through it and for the community that is now fighting the county to honor the memory of what happened.

How An African Cemetery Under A Parking Lot Galvanized A Community To Fight White Supremacy

January 20, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Development, Maryland, Racism, Slavery

The United States still has a long way to go to come to terms with its history of being founded on genocide and slavery. In recent years, we have heard about efforts to take down monuments to those who perpetrated these crimes. What we rarely hear are the stories of how that genocide and slavery have been covered up and how even today there are barriers to those who seek to expose them. One such effort is taking place right now in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo tells us the riveting story of her discovery of an African Cemetery under a parking lot. She has led a community effort to stop a building from being erected on the site, which has unearthed a horrific past experienced by former residents of that land and has become a struggle against gentrification and white supremacy.

Battle Of The Ages To Stop Eurasian Integration

January 18, 2020 ByPepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com Educate! BRI, Development, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Coming decade could see the US take on Russia, China and Iran over the New Silk Road connection. The Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani. Yet a bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Every game-changing act in geopolitics and geoeconomics in the coming decade will have to be analyzed in connection to this epic clash.

De Blasio Rejects Community’s Plan For Bushwick Rezoning

January 16, 2020 By Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist.com Educate! Development, Displacement, Gentrification, New York (NY)

Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected a community-driven rezoning proposal for Bushwick, dealing a significant blow to local residents who spent years drafting a blueprint aimed at addressing gentrification and displacement in the rapidly changing neighborhood. The administration's decision was outlined in a letter delivered to local stakeholders this weekend by Deputy Mayor Vicki Breen, who said she was "deeply concerned" that aspects of the community plan amounted to a downzoning.

Governor Orders Mauna Kea Stand Down

January 6, 2020 By Aliyah Chavez, Newsmaven.io Resist! Development, Government, Hawaii

The Thirty Meter Telescope will not be built atop Mauna Kea at this time. Hawai'i Governor David Ige announced in an internal memo this morning that law enforcement personnel will be leaving the site. The telescope, an object of controversy, is still slated to be built. The construction will now be delayed. “They are not abandoning Hawai’i,” Gov. Ige said in a press conference this afternoon. “We believe at this point in time, it made sense for us to bring our state law enforcement home.”

Green Steel

December 11, 2019 By Charlotte King, Ipsnews.net Create! Development, Sustainability

BEIJING, China, Nov 21 2019 (IPS) - How Indonesian craftsmanship is undergoing a revival at the world’s first ‘bamboo university’. It’s fast-growing, flexible and strong. Standing underneath a bamboo canopy, it is easy to understand why people have been using this grass plant for years, in the construction of houses, bridges and scaffolding. Bamboo has several advantages in construction, including its height, light weight, excellent tensile strength and flexibility. Critically, bamboo is also abundantly available and low cost, making it a traditional choice of housing material for many poorer communities.

Poor Neighborhoods Need More Than ‘Investment’

November 29, 2019 By Amadi Anene, Otherwords.org Create! Development, Gentrification, Investment

Where some of us see distressed neighborhoods — where families endure poverty and homes fall into disrepair — others see dollar signs. In fact, the Trump administration now brands them “opportunity zones,” offering tax breaks to investors who invest capital there. What remains unclear is this: Opportunity for whom? Big investors may stand to cash in, but many communities are saying they’re not getting the benefits they were promised.

Israel Destroyed Record Number Of Palestinian Homes In Jerusalem In 2019

November 5, 2019 Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss.net Educate! Development, Israel, Nationalism, Occupation, Palestine

Israel has demolished a record number of homes in occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, the most in the past 15 years, Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday. More than 140 Palestinian homes were demolished, resulting in the displacement of 238 Palestinians, 127 of them minors. Of the homes that were destroyed, 39 were destroyed by the owners themselves after they received demolition orders from Israel, in order to avoid incurring the municipality’s demolition fees. This year’s demolitions far surpassed the second highest number of demolitions, which occurred in 2016 when 92 homes were destroyed.

Gentrification vs. Revitalization: The Fight For Affordable Housing In San Francisco

September 19, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Affordable Housing, Development, Gentrification, San Francisco

A close up look at the epicenter of the nation's affordable housing crisis: San Francisco. We sit down with local residents and activists to hear about the manifold problems that gave rise to this crisis, and the creative ways in which folks are fighting for their human rights.

Hong Kong Shows China Must Abandon Its Property Model

September 9, 2019 Martin Choi, Scmp.com Educate! China, Development, Hong Kong, Property

The southern city of Shenzhen, now a blueprint for China’s urban development, should abandon the Hong Kong property model it borrowed decades ago, warned the country’s “godfather of real estate”. Meng Xiaosu, who spearheaded China’s property reform policies in the 1990s, said Shenzhen and other cities in the Greater Bay Area should learn from the pitfalls of Hong Kong’s market, which he said included cramped conditions, wealth inequality and a chronic shortage of land for development.

Protectors Of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science

August 29, 2019 Julianne Tveten, Fair.org Resist! Colonialism, Development, Hawaii, Protests

Thousands of Native Hawaiians and their supporters have been congregating since July 15 at the base of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano and mountain on the island of Hawaii. Known in Hawaiian as the kia’i, the protectors—a term the group prefers to “protesters”—seek to deter construction of the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. Business owners and state officials promise the telescope will provide jobs, educational opportunities and high-resolution astronomical imagery.

Thousands Jam On Mauna Kea Over Weekend

August 13, 2019 Staff, Bigislandvideonews.com Resist! Development, Hawaii

(BIVN) – A crowd of thousands gathered at the base of the Mauna Kea Access Road on Sunday, as opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope swelled over the weekend. Saturday and Sunday were day 27 and 28 of the scheduled start of construction on the TMT. Crews seeking to ascend the mountain in order to build the billion-dollar observatory have been stopped, for now, as project opponents have taken control of the only road (suitable for heavy machinery) that leads to the summit.

Prince George’s County Residents Want To Halt Suspected Amazon Warehouse

August 12, 2019 By Dominique Maria Bonessi, Wamu.org Resist! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos

When Briana Bostic moved to her developing Prince George’s County neighborhood last year, she was told that a shopping center, grocery store, library, and other amenities were going to be a part of the development. “It wasn’t just promises,” Bostic said. “It was a large and developed and involved plan with neighborhood input from thousands of people. It was the exact opposite of the process we see now.” Bostic is referencing a decision at a county council meeting last month to approve zoning changes.

It Took A Crisis To Bring Hawaiians Together

August 3, 2019 By Trisha Kehaulani Watson, Civilbeat.org Create! Class Struggle, Development, Hawaii

What’s happening at Mauna Kea is a form of nation-building, and its value supersedes whatever the Thirty Meter Telescope could accomplish. It was surely an unplanned coincidence that Gov. David Ige’s decision Tuesday to delay construction on Mauna Kea and revoke his emergency proclamation came the day before La Hoihoi Ea, a national celebration of the Kingdom of Hawaii that first occurred July 31, 1843, during the reign of Kamehameha III, Kauikeaouli. On that date, after a brief occupation by Britain, Adm. Richard Thomas, on behalf of the British government, was sent to Hawaii to restore sovereignty to the kingdom.

The Fight For Mauna Kea Is A Fight Against Colonial Science

July 27, 2019 By Keolu Fox and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Thenation.com Resist! Development, Hawaii, Indigenous Peoples, Protests

Kānaka ʻŌiwi, or Native Hawaiians, have long gazed into the sky to develop sophisticated knowledge systems about the stars, and have even welcomed non-Hawaiian communities to join in doing so. In 1874, King Kalākaua invited British astronomers to observe the transit of Venus; he dreamed of building an observatory on the Big Island, perhaps at a school. Nearly a century and a half later, the island of Hawai’i is getting a world-class observatory, but not at the invitation of Native Hawaiians, and not at a place of their collective choosing. A consortium of several international universities backed by six countries wants to build a $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)...

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