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The Debut of Open Streets Owosso: PHOTO ESSAY
This weekend saw the launch of yet another Open Streets event modeled on the successes of similar car-free street events in cities like Bogotá, Portland, Los Angeles, and Detroit. But what was slightly...
View ArticleHawaii Proposes Radical Prescriptions for Curing Homelessness
Trying to grasp the interplay between the US homeless crisis and the capital housing market can be a tad tricky at times. So often homelessness is viewed as the fallout of addiction or bad life...
View ArticleDodge Markets Their Cars to Sociopaths, It’s No Wonder Nazis Love Them
Last Saturday during a march against white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia, a man drove a Dodge Challenger into the crowd, killing at least one and injuring dozens more. The vehicle was...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Bike On It, It Doesn’t Belong In the City
Last week a critical mass of mostly black kids on BMX bikes swarmed the Cross-Bronx expressway in a glorious reclamation of space from the monopoly of the automobile. Predictably the mass ride quickly...
View ArticleYes, Michigan Has the Authority to Kill Line 5. Here’s How.
“You’d never build a pipeline like this today.” This recent statement by For the Love of Water’s executive director Liz Kirkwood reflects the consensus among Great Lakes environmentalists. For years...
View ArticlePitting Cyclists Against the Homeless Is Peak Neoliberalism
If you read blogs about bikes you likely saw how Seattle’s DOT installed a dozen and a half bike racks in a place nobody would lock a single bike, let alone dozens of bikes. SDOT did this, quite...
View ArticleDriverless Cars Will Be Allowed to Kill Us, Because Capitalism Is A Death Cult
As you likely already know, last week a ‘driverless’ Uber test vehicle made by Volvo struck and killed 49 year old Elaine Herzberg while she was walking her bike across a road in Tempe, Arizona. The...
View ArticleOur Cities Need Socialism
Remember in 2016 when the McResistance told us that fighting for progressive causes was getting put on hold while all effort would be focused on blocking Trump? Then, predictably, Democrats ended up...
View ArticleAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs Amazon’s City-Destroying Machine
With the nonstop national media coverage of AOC, you’d be forgiven for forgetting she’ll actually be representing a geographically small congressional district starting January 2019 comprised mostly of...
View ArticleThe Earth Isn’t Dying, It’s Being Killed by Realtors
In 2013 the US was still reeling from the collapse of the housing market in 2008. While hundreds of thousands of Americans unjustly lost their homes, many foreclosed on illegally, there was one upside...
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