Development

After 9 Days Of Protests Hawaii Governor Finally Visits Sacred Mauna Kea

July 24, 2019 By Anita Hofschneider, Civilbeat.org Resist! Development, Hawaii, Protests

Hawaii Gov. David Ige wants Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim to take the lead on negotiating with opponents of the planned Thirty Meter Telescope who are engaged in a massive protest to prevent its construction on Mauna Kea, a mountain they consider sacred. The governor issued a statement Tuesday morning on the ninth day of protests before visiting activists camping on the mountain in the late afternoon. Hundreds of people were gathered peacefully at Puʻu Huluhulu across from Mauna Kea Access Road to oppose the project.

No Arrests And No Construction Convoy After A Day Of Protests

July 16, 2019 By Anita Hofschneider, Civilbeat.org Resist! Development, Hawaii, Protests

Tensions seemed to flare anew late Monday afternoon when protestors were seen blocking three police vehicles from going up the Mauna Kea Access Road. Authorities were still negotiating with the protestors at 4:45 p.m. in an attempt to get them to move. The standoff came after a work crew had erected a gate next to where protestors had chained themselves to a cattle grate earlier in the day. Later, authorities agreed to take the gate back down as they continued to negotiate for passage up the mountain.

Poor Neighborhoods Need More Than ‘Investment’

June 6, 2019 By Amadi Anene, Otherwords.org Create! Development, Inequality, Poverty

Low-income neighborhoods need employee-owned businesses anchored to their communities, not investors looking to make a quick buck. 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.

US Has Regressed To Developing Nation Status, MIT Economist Warns

June 6, 2019 Chloe Farand, Independent.co.uk Educate! Development, Inequality, New Economy, United States

Peter Temin says 80 per cent of the population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security America is regressing to have the economic and political structure of a developing nation, an MIT economist has warned. Peter Temin says the world's’ largest economy has roads and bridges that look more like those in Thailand and Venezuela than those in parts of Europe. In his new book, “The Vanishing Middle Class", reviewed by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mr Temin says the fracture of US society is leading the middle class to disappear.

Cries Of ‘Shame!’ Heard At Arlington County, Va. Hearing As Officials Approve $23M In Incentives For Amazon

March 18, 2019 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos

"You claim Arlington is a place for all, for immigrants, for equality, [and] clamor for the attention of a company that does the opposite." Anti-Amazon protesters in Arlington County, Virginia were outraged Saturday after the county board dismissed outright their concerns over the corporate giant's decision to build a headquarters in Crystal City—voting unanimously to approve $23 million in tax incentives for the company. The 5-0 vote followed hours of testimony by Amazon representatives, supporters, and opponents of the plan, with critics arguing that the trillion-dollar company has no need for financial incentives and that its presence in Crystal City will negatively impact lower-income residents and public services.

As Big Lincoln Yards Vote Looms, Protesters Call On Ald. James Cappleman To ‘Delay The TIF’

March 8, 2019 Jonathan Ballew, Blockclubchicago.org Resist! Development, Protests

UPTOWN — On Thursday, the massive Lincoln Yards development will advance to the City Council’s Zoning Committee. And while the project is miles from Ald. James Cappleman’s North Side ward, his position as chair of the powerful committee has made him a target for those opposed to the development — and the $900 million tax subsidy that goes along with it. “Hey Cappleman, you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side,” protesters chanted outside the 46th Ward aldermanic office at 4544 N. Broadway on Tuesday.

Without Amazon, New York Can Now Do Economic Development Right

February 27, 2019 By Isaiah J. Poole, Commondreams.org Create! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos, New Economy, New York (NY)

Now that activists in New York City successfully chased Amazon and its “HQ2” plan out of New York City, there is a new challenge: Can the organizers and elected leaders who successfully blocked the kind of economic development they opposed bring about the kind of economic development they want? That was a question that Cheyenna Weber, general coordinator for the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, was wrestling with hours after Amazon announced on Thursday that it was canceling a planned complex in Long Island City, Queens that they said would bring 25,000 jobs to the area.

Feeling Unwelcome, Amazon Ditches Plans For New York Hub

February 15, 2019 Jonathan Allen and David Shepardson, Reuters.com Resist! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc abruptly scrapped plans to build a major outpost in New York that could have created 25,000 jobs, blaming opposition from local leaders upset by the nearly $3 billion in incentives promised by state and city politicians. The company said on Thursday it did not see consistently “positive, collaborative” relationships with state and local officials. Opponents of the project feared congestion and higher rents in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, and objected to handing billions in incentives to a company run by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man.

Protests Push Amazon To Explore Alternatives To New York Office

February 11, 2019 David Shepardson and Susan Heavey, Reuters.com Resist! Amazon, Development, New York (NY)

The online retailer has not yet acquired any land for the project, which would make it easy to scrap its plans, the source said. The Washington Post reported the story earlier on Friday. The person briefed on the matter said that Amazon was still working toward winning approval from New York officials and had not given up on the proposal, but was considering potential alternatives to New York. Earlier, the Post, which is owned by Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, reported that Amazon executives had had internal discussions to reassess the situation in New York and explore alternatives. It cited two unnamed people familiar with the retailer’s thinking.

Corporate And Banking Interests Profit From Desecration Of Black Maryland Graveyard

January 17, 2019 By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Blackagendareport.com Resist! Banks, Corporations, Development, Maryland, Racism

In the grand scheme of things it didn’t even register a blip. Four people arrested in an obscure auditorium in a place whose name has a certain regal air to it -- Kensington. But this wasn’t somewhere in England. No, it was in Maryland, well south of the Mason-Dixon Line, in a county with the disgraceful heritage of kidnapping, enslavement, lynching, Black breeding farms, covenants to keep Blacks and Jews sequestered and ethnic cleansing high on the list of priorities that have informed every county official since before the Emancipation Proclamation and their systematic erasure of that history both physically and from public consciousness.

Germany Allocates $62m To Development Projects In Palestine

December 7, 2018 Middle East Monitor, Mintpressnews.com Create! Development, Germany, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Palestine, Uneven Development

Germany allocated €55 million ($62.5 million) to be dispersed to Palestinian development projects in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2019. Klaus Kramer, the head of division in the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, told reporters in Ramallah that it was agreed, in coordination with various ministries in the Palestinian government, that the money will go to mainly three sectors: sustainable economic development, infrastructure such as water projects and local governance, including projects with municipalities. While the funds in the form of grants will go mainly to these three areas, development projects in other fields will also get part of the money, such as projects carried out by civil society organisations.

Amazon’s Billion-Dollar Shakedown Of America’s Cities

November 16, 2018 By Jacob Sugarman, Truthdig.com Educate! Amazon, Development, Gentrification, Jeff Bezos

If one required reminding of the Democratic Party’s complete capitulation to corporate interests, to say nothing of the country’s as a whole, he or she need only have listened to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s address on Tuesday. “One of the biggest companies on earth next to the biggest public housing development in the United States,” he told reporters during a joint press conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “The synergy is going to be extraordinary.” The company in question is Amazon, which confirmed earlier that morning that Long Island City, Queens, will become the site of its second headquarters (a third headquarters will be located in northern Virginia).

TribalUSm: Colonization Unleashed With Ruthless Efficiency In America

August 24, 2018 Teorose Fikre, Ghionjournal.com Educate! Colonialism, Development, United States

Up until that epiphany occurred during my second year in college, I assumed the technological edge, weapons superiority and tactical advances were why country after country in the continent we now refer to as Africa was decimated and put under the boots of European invaders. I was wrong all along, it was never the superior might of colonial powers that paved the way for the suppression of the Zulu, Hausa, Yoruba and countless civilizations within “Africa”, manufactured schisms and the splintering of the people birthed continental subjugation. Though the targets were many, the blueprint of colonization was always the same. The first step is to induce conflict by way of tribalism. In order to do this, sustainable communities were lumped in with other communities in order to form a central authority.

Community Land Cooperatives Should Oversee Neighborhood Economic Development

June 27, 2018 Brandy Brooks and Joel Rothschild, Shelterforce.org Create! Cooperatives, Development, Land, New Economy

This nonprofit is organizing a real estate investment cooperative for the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, with the exclusive purpose of incubating, funding, and assisting “community land cooperatives.” Ecovillagers Alliance is a nonprofit initiative of educators, organizers, systems engineers, and storytellers. We came together from a crazy quilt of past attempts to establish community control of land and buildings by different models—co-ops, land trusts, co-housing, communes—none of which quite addressed the inhumane realities of modern urban real estate. So we went back to the drawing board to ask: what instrument of neighborhood real estate stewardship would be democratic, just, and sustainable? Now we are organizing a real estate investment cooperative for the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States...

Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?

June 20, 2018 By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org Educate! Capitalism, Development, Gentrification

One year ago this week I was in London, speaking at a conference on global inequality at the London School of Economics. The morning of June 14, I could see smoke rising from the Kensington neighborhood, at the Grenfell Tower, a 24-story affordable apartment building. I walked closer to see the inferno. Seventy-one people lost their lives and over 600 people lost their homes. As of a few months ago, 320 households were still displaced and living in hotels, including over 200 children. Meanwhile, in the immediate Kensington area around the charred remains of the tower, there are 1,800 vacant luxury homes and hundreds of empty commercial spaces. It is a luxury ghost town. London is an acute case of the problem of the “tale of two cities” opening up across the world.

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