54 days ago by chyma

This was Prospect Park Area where I would go frequently. Woman set alight and killed ‘over $2,000 debt’. Filed under: Bklyn, real estate, social justice, street life, urban studies, urban violence, violent studies

msbehave - chyma.wordpress.com · 3 references

94 days ago by CHRISTINA LACOSTE

Last Friday, The Fourth Wall Project opened the Anonymous Boston exhibit. Photographs of young victims are carefully presented all along the walls with brief descriptions of their lives next to the demeaning comments left by anonymous bloggers. The exhibit works to challenge the ways in which the me ...

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160 days ago by Anthony Cuthbertson

Does this look like your average mayor? It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Unfortunately, modern-day cities are often crime-ridden, chaotic, and in some form of decay. The Torre de David, the world’s tallest squat, which has emer ...

WhoWhatWhy - whowhatwhy.com · Rank: 21,383 · 132 references

179 days ago by Les Horswill

Walter Russell Mead and Peggy Noonan offer cold-eyed assessments of the spectacular violence in London and increasing racial incidents in American cities. They seem to want Americans to pay attention, but not to lift a finger. Walter Russell Mead in “American Tinderbox” states: “Even taxing “million ...

Horswill on political ... - les-horswill.blogspot.com · Rank: 149,248

185 days ago by Grok

The short answer is "because they can." The rioters are on the dole, have enough money to buy blackberries, and live in a society where it is politically incorrect to judge them in any way or to penalize them for bad behavior. We have seen this behavior in Greece, in Spain, in France, in Vancouver, ...

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218 days ago by hallblithe

This month sees the start of a year long exhibition at the International Slavery Museum concerning Toxteth. Thirty years ago this was just one area of England to experience riots, as this contemporary account from our Journal explains.

SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK - socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com · 29 references