Hamilton The ACORN Canada board and annual general meeting was in full force before the biennial convention was scheduled to begin in Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton is a former steel-making, industrial city along Lake Ontario, roughly midway between Toronto, the queen city of Canada, and Buffalo, New York. Hamilton is having a revival of sorts, but that …
Month: June 2019
The Story Behind the Iconic Andrea Dworkin Bullhorn Picture
Buffalo The New York Review of Books is not exactly everyday reading for the masses. As a publication, it is what its title implies: a review of books. It is also a cultural touchstone for the last more than fifty years for the intelligentsia with long form essays on arts, movies, politics, and other matters …
Tenant Breakthrough in New York State on Rent Control
New Orleans For tenant activists and organizers around the country and the world, rent control, real rent control, often seems like gold at the end of the rainbow, almost a mirage, certainly unattainable, and perhaps not worth the struggle. New York City has long been a beacon for tenants trying to win such protections, …