Poverty

Gentrification Or Health Care? Preserving Neighborhood Care In Brooklyn

August 9, 2013 Sarah Jaffe, www.alternet.org Create! Health Care, Poverty

For Red Hook's residents, many of whom are public housing residents living on low incomes, the nearest emergency room would be miles away. As the race began, three teams set off in cars; one for LICH, one for Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene, and one for Methodist. An additional team headed to Methodist via public transportation—a torturous journey from Red Hook. (For reference, it took me nearly an hour to reach Coffey Park via public transit from my Crown Heights apartment.) I tagged along in the Methodist car with Gabe Kristal of NYSNA and Margaret Weber, an audiologist who once worked at LICH and whose family has relied heavily on the hospital over her 30 years in Brooklyn Heights.

Sustainable Abundance: Permaculture Principles For Monetary Systems

August 1, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.truthout.org Create! Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Solidarity

There is a lot that we can learn from nature, and one important lesson is that diverse systems have greater strength and resilience. When conditions change, various components within a diverse system will step in to pick up where others fail. The weaknesses of monocultures are evident in agricultural systems where crops either flourish or wither each season. We also know that using permaculture, in which multiple types of plants are grown together to fill different functions and aid each other, creates greater abundance. Less obvious is that these same principles can be applied to monetary systems. The dominant type of money, a fiat currency, essentially a mono-currency based on debt and scarcity, is failing most of us.

Economic Crisis Worsens, More Reasons To Create New Economy

July 28, 2013 Hope Yen, www.ap.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights, Poverty

Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend. Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor." "I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit and vegetable stand with her boyfriend but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks.

Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply To Everyone

July 26, 2013 John Light, www.billmoyers.com Educate! Poverty, Women's Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

But there’s another problem: Millions of working Americans make less than minimum wage. In fact, more Americans are exempt from it than actually earn it. The Pew Research Center examined Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that about one and a half million Americans earned the minimum wage in 2012, but nearly two million people earned an hourly wage that was even less than $7.25 an hour. These workers, for one reason or another, areexempted from the part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) that requires employers to pay at least the minimum wage, and include tipped workers and many domestic workers, as well as workers on small farms, some seasonal workers and some disabled workers.

Portland Mayor Moves To Evict City Hall Protest Encampment

July 25, 2013 Nigel Duara, www.registerguard.com Organize! Housing, Poverty

Mayor Charlie Hales announced a plan on Monday to evict protesters from an encampment in front of City Hall that began in 2011 during the Occupy Portland movement. Hales said crime and litter at the encampment forced his hand. “People who work in this building have been harassed in and out of the building,” Hales said during a news conference on Monday. Protesters reacted with dismay to the news. About 30 protesters, ranging in age from teenagers to people in their 60s, were still gathered in front of City Hall on Monday afternoon. Seth Ozturgut said he has been staying at the encampment for more than four months. He said he hopes the protest brings the homeless plight to the city’s attention. “Sleep is a human right,” Ozturgut said

City Leaders Target Miami’s Homeless Population For Arrest

July 23, 2013 Mint Press News Desk, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Housing, Poverty

Commissioners are attempting to roll back provisions instituted in the 1960s that protected the city’s homeless from habitual arrest, opening the door to arrests for blocking sidewalks and cooking food in public areas. At the heart of the petition is the 1998 Pottinger v. City of Miami case, in which the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of 6,000 homeless people, sued the city for treating homelessness as a crime. The plaintiffs argued that the arrest of homeless people for “basic activities of daily living” violated the Eighth Amendment. The plaintiffs’ case rested on the argument that homeless people were not in that position by choice, which made punishment “cruel and unusual.”

Video: The Amazing Landfill Harmonic Orchestra

July 22, 2013 Staff, www.kickstarter.com Create! Arts, Poverty

This is an amazing video that will grab at your heart. It is about people in Cateuri, Paraguay, a slum built on a landfill, without any hope of escaping. The Landfill Harmonic reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort to change that - musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials - and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises and children find new dreams. "Landfill Harmonic shows how trash and recycled materials can be transformed into beautiful sounding musical instruments, but more importantly, it brings witness to the transformation of precious human beings."

International Day To Protest Violent Treatment, Murder Of Sex Workers

July 21, 2013 Staff, www.occupywallst.org Educate! Human Rights, Poverty

Following the murders of Dora Özer and Petite Jasmine on the 9th and 11 of July 2013, sex workers, their friends, families, and allies are coming together to demand an end to stigma, criminalisation, violence and murders. In the week since the two tragedies occurred, the feelings of anger, grief, sadness and injustice – for the loss of Dora and Jasmine, but also for the senseless and systemic murders and violence against sex workers worldwide – have brought together people in more than 35 cities from four continents who agreed to organise demos, vigils, and protests in front of Turkish and Swedish embassies or other symbolic places.

A Philadelphia School’s Big Bet On Nonviolence

July 21, 2013 ByJeff Deeney, www.theatlantic.com Create! Education, Poverty

Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia's infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. The school was known as "Jones Jail" for its reputation of violence and disorder, and because the building physically resembled a youth correctional facility. Situated in the Kensington section of the city, it drew students from the heart of a desperately poor hub of injection drug users and street level prostitution where gun violence rates are off the charts. But rather than beef up the already heavy security to ensure safety and restore order, American Paradigm stripped it away.

Get Ready for Unfounded Attacks on War on Poverty

July 17, 2013 Arloc Sherman, www.offthechartsblog.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty

The truth is very different. A number of anti-poverty programs — including some key efforts that have their origins in the War on Poverty and some that came later, often the product of bipartisan agreement — have an impressive record of achievement. Together, programs such as food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Medicaid, college financial assistance and broader based programs such as Medicare, have reduced poverty and malnutrition, expanded access to health care, and opened doors of opportunity for millions of people. To be sure, poverty remains a serious problem in the United States and remains higher here than in many western industrialized countries.

McDonald’s Can’t Figure Out How Workers Survive on Minimum Wage

July 17, 2013 Jordan Weissman, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

Well this is both embarrassing and deeply telling. In what appears to have been a gesture of goodwill gone haywire, McDonald's recently teamed up with Visa to create a financial planning site for its low-pay workforce. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the thing seems to have been literally incapable of imagining of how a fast food employee could survive on a minimum wage income. As ThinkProgress and other outlets have reported, the site includes a sample budget that, among other laughable assumptions, presumes that workers will have a second job.

City To Fund Developers, Low Wage Workers Fight Back

July 16, 2013 Staff, www.unitedworkers.org Organize! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

The proposed $107 million TIF for Harbor Point (Beatty Developers Group, LLC) has renewed a long-term debate in Baltimore about development, the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), and the future for working class people of color in Baltimore. Time and again, the city has awarded our resources to wealthy developers at the taxpayers’ expense in the hope that money will trickle down. This model has failed. Over $2 billion of public money has been spent on the Inner Harbor since the 1970s, yet many Baltimore residents remain in low-wage, temporary, and unstable jobs that keep them in poverty. Nineteen percent of Baltimore Residents are living below the poverty line. This Harbor Point TIF deal is more of the same.

“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay!”: Conversation with a French Debt Resistor

July 4, 2013 Strike Debt, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Organize! Finance and the Economy, Poverty

An alternative strategy of debt refusal is beginning to unfold in Europe and in the global south. Argentina stopped payment on a portion of its state debt in 2001, followed by Ecuador in 2008. Organizers in Europe were inspired to conduct audits of public debt with the goal of taking the power to determine the legitimacy of such debts out of the hands of politicians, bankers, and the courts. Since the European movement began in France, a broad coalition has emerged in multiple countries. Working under the banner of the International Citizen Debt Audit Network, regular people, most of whom are not finance experts, are studying the debts owed by cities and public agencies in order to determine which ones deserve to be repaid.

Remembering the Newark Rebellion of 1967

July 4, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Racism

The Newark Riot of 1967 began with the arrest of a cab driver named John Smith, who allegedly drove around a double-parked police car at the corner of 7th St. and 15th Avenue. He was subsequently stopped, interrogated, arrested and transported to the 4th precinct headquarters, during which time he was severely beaten by the arresting officers. As news of the arrest spread, a crowd began to assemble in front of the precinct house, located directly across from a high-rise public housing project. When the police allowed a small group of civil rights leaders to visit the prisoner, they demanded that Mr. Smith be taken to a hospital.

Chicago’s South Side Rises Up Against Gun Violence

June 30, 2013 Ken Butigan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Organize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Police abuse, Poverty, Racism

Fr. Michael Pfleger — St. Sabina’s pastor who has been actively challenging the violence, and the poverty and racism that spawns it, for decades — put it this way at the opening rally: “We cannot wait for law enforcement or for government. We must run our homes. We must run our neighborhoods. We must occupy the streets. We must come out of our houses, out of our churches, out of our businesses, and be the presence in our communities. ” He continued, “We must be the eyes and ears of the community — to let our children know that we are watching over you and we will protect you. We are 911. We are the blue lights. We’re the Interrupters. We are in charge of the community… Occupy the streets. We must reach out to our brothers in the community. Stop demonizing them!

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