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I grew up hearing the name "Gordon Parks" regularly. The man was a legend and a legendary New Yorker. He was the first person of color to direct a major motion picture (" The Learning Tree ") based on a screenplay he wrote based on a best-selling novel he wrote. He also directed the original Shaft . That alone would s...
Simply Left Behind - Thu 11:11 a.m. - 10 clicks 
Unfortunately, I doubt many other New Yorkers, particularly those with money , do. In gentrification, we've destroyed neighborhood after neighborhood. Keeping Harlem at the scale it presently exists would help preserve the single most important cultural neighborhood in the city. Think about it: you can mention any other neighborhood, and you'll get diffe...
Simply Left Behind - Thu 8:30 a.m. - 16 clicks
One might begin to see the seeds of its decline here : iMore reports that Google may make four times the ad revenue off of their use in iOS than they do from their own Android platform. Apple wants to change that. Apple has already begun intermediating search queries though Siri, effectively cutting Google out of the valuable identity information asso...
Simply Left Behind - Wed 8:29 a.m. - 16 clicks
The results of this poll sort of reflect my own feelings and experiences with Facebook: According to a new AP-CNBC poll, 57 percent of Facebook users say they never click ads or other sponsored content when they use the site, with another 26 percent saying they hardly ever engage in such activity. While the company makes money, in part, simply by displaying sponsored ...
Simply Left Behind - Tue 6:13 a.m. - 13 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #549: "Apple and Foxconn" Paul Garver tells about how iPhones and iPads are assembled - by subcontractors in huge factory complexes in China. Oppressive working conditions have led to a wave of suicides by young workers. But the workforce is beginning to require a better deal. $10 added to the cost of a device could make a huge ...
Ithaca Action Network - Mon 6:52 p.m. - 16 clicks
...I think. As you no doubt have heard by now, the US foiled a new and improved underwear bombing scheme dreamed up by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (apparently, Al Qaeda has a franchise operation.) Jingoistic heel-clicking aside , the counterterror operation involved human intelligence and a double agent: (CBS News) NEW YORK - It'...
Simply Left Behind - May 9 - 2 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #548: "May Day for a Living Wage" Diana Ceja, Pete Meyers, the Take Action Resistance Singers, Victor Tiffany, Adam Levine, Brandon Douglas, Linda Smith and Lucas Gagnon lead a rally before the County Courthouse. You can't live on the minimum wage. They call on the County Legislature to pass a resolution urging the State to ...
Ithaca Action Network - May 7
UAW Local 2179 picketed the Strand on May Day(Photo: Thomas Altfather Good / NLN) NEW YORK — May 1, 2012. May Day is traditionally the International Workers Holiday but when Occupy Wall Street, looking to revitalize the movement, teamed up with Labor in the streets of Manhattan it became the Holiday of Hope. [...]...
Next Left Notes - May 5
So Paul Dyster's grand vision of a holiday market in Niagara Falls , which cost $900,000, half of which was taxpayer subsidized, lost $31,000 when all was said and done. Council President Sam Fruscione wants answers to the debacle that drew few visitors and even fewer buyers. Dyster, in his infinite denial, had this to say to the Gazette: “We think, overall, the market was a success,” Dy...
Niagara Times - May 2
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #547: "Occupy and Take Action" Cornel West and Frances Fox Piven discuss the Occupy movement. It is a very hopeful moment, because people are coming together to raise awareness and challenge deep injustices in this society. Young and old can learn from each other. Recorded March 18, 2012 at Left Forum. Tuesday, May 1 7:00-7...
Ithaca Action Network - Apr 30 - 2 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #546: "Tax the 1%" Ithacans rally on Tax Day. We pay our taxes but some very big and profitable corporations get away with paying very little, and that's not fair. We want millionaires to pay as high a rate as their secretaries pay. In New York State the very rich pay at a far lower rate than the middle class. Living wages a...
Ithaca Action Network - Apr 23 - 3 clicks
CWA’s Steve Lawton mc’d the Tax Day protest(Photo: Thomas Altfather Good / NLN) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — April 17, 2012. On Tax Day 2012 over 100 members of several New York City unions attended a demonstration outside Staten Island’s main post office — not to protest against paying taxes but to demand that corporations [...]...
Next Left Notes - Apr 21
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #545: "Poverty in America 50 Years Later" Frances Fox Piven and Cornel West remember Michael Harrington and the stir that his book The Other America caused. It led to progress in reducing poverty, but now, with the resurgence of the 1%, poverty is back worse than ever. But people are starting to resist. Recorded March 18, 2012 at ...
Ithaca Action Network - Apr 16 - 2 clicks
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #544: "Higher Education Crisis" Andrew Porter explains how federal and state spending on higher education went down while tuition rose far faster than inflation. What student aid there was shifted from grants to loans, in particular to government-backed private loans, so student debt has risen sharply. The money is there, but it's ...
Ithaca Action Network - Apr 9 - 2 clicks
NEW YORK (Borowitz Report) — Political observer and satirist (if that isn’t redundant these days) Andy Borowitz “reported” on two recent developments that may be of interest to NLN readers: On April 3, Borowitz revealed that “the Supreme Court decided today that annual physicals were unconstitutional and should be replaced by random strip searches conducted [...]...
Next Left Notes - Apr 7 - 2 clicks
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Tuesday, March 27, City Council Member Debi Rose (District 49) held her second annual event celebrating “Women in History.” The event was held at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s Veterans Memorial Hall. The Curtis High School Guitar Ensembleprovided the music at the event(Photo: Thomas L. Miles / NLN) [...]...
Next Left Notes - Apr 7 - 3 clicks
I was reading the Buffalo News story today about Kathy Hochul's "pivot" on Medicare compared to positions she took in the campaign. Look, if Kathy is smarter now than she was before when she was pandering on the Medicare issue during the campaign, great. But the language that is getting used in politics these days is one of my pet peeves. Such as: 1) Pivot: Ridiculous way of saying I chang...
Niagara Times - Apr 4
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #543: "Social Market Alternatives" Paul Garver says that reforms far short of socialism could still make a big difference in our lives. The federal government could spend less on the military, prisons, and homeland security, in order to spend more on creating jobs, education, pensions. Social Security only needs to tax all incomes, no...
Ithaca Action Network - Apr 2
The “What War?” panel (l to r): Michael Otterman, Larry Everest, David Swanson and Debra Sweet(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN) NEW YORK — March 28, 2012. The only thing missing from this year’s Left Forum was the Iraq War, which ended before the annual event — or did it? The 2012 Left Forum [...]...
Next Left Notes - Mar 28 - 2 clicks
No doubt, you’ve heard the news out of Ontario: brothels are now legal . We think the Buffalo News really dropped the ball with their headline writing, however. For such a monumental occasion, they could have done much better. We invite you, Dear Readers, to offer suggestions for better headlines here. We’ll forward the best ones to the News. _uacct = "UA...
Niagara Times - Mar 27
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #542: "Technion and Cornell: Questions" Cornell University plans to build a whole technology campus in New York City in collaboration with the Israeli Technion. But, Dan Sinykin of Students for Justice in Palestine tells Deirdre Silverman that the Technion works on the technologies that are used to keep down the Palestinian people in t...
Ithaca Action Network - Mar 26 - 2 clicks
Protesters in New York demand justice for Trayvon Martin(Photo: Bud Korotzer / NLN) NEW YORK — March 23, 2012. Over the years there have been many marches and rallies protesting the killings of young Black and Latino men — protests have gotten larger and more diverse, yet the murders continue. Last month volunteer [...]...
Next Left Notes - Mar 23
Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America Presents #520: "Wisconsin Stands Up for Unions" John Nichols, political journalist and Wisconsin resident, tells about the popular uprising against Governor Scott Walker. The public clearly and militantly supported public sector unions. Recorded September 27, 2011. Tuesday, March 20 7:00-7:30 pm on Channel 13 Wednesday, March 21 1:00-1:30 pm o...
Ithaca Action Network - Mar 19
