Re: War Losses Mount for Small Towns
On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Another thing to consider is that Manhattan, where many movement leaders and intellectuals seem determined to to have offices, is not a hospitable place for growing a Left that can challenge the Democratic Party. An absence of news about New York activists occupying HRC’s offices, in contrast to occupations of Democratic congresspeople’s offices in Toledo, OH, Denver, CO, Sacramento, CA, etc., is an index of the Democratic Party hegemony over NY leftists. (Is that because NY leftists need Democrats for rent control and stablization to be able to live in Manhattan at all?)
I think most of them actually live in Brooklyn or Queens. People like
me, with a rent-stabilized apartment in an upscale Manhattan
neighborhood, are a dwindling breed. And with a growing kid, we’re
not going to be there much longer, either.
Doug