Showing posts with label Social Programs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Programs. Show all posts

Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Rise and Fall(? - Hopefully) of the Neo-Liberal Order

 1).  “Gary Gerstle: Where Did Neoliberalism Come From and How Did It Become So Influential?(Bristol Ideas)”,  video, duration 1:08:59,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcDoaDN-bI&t=18s >


2).  “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era”,  video, duration 1:35:35,                                                    at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sz1pqmmA8M&t=23s >


3).  “Neoliberalism's anti-democratic stealth revolution w/Wendy Brown”,  video, duration 37:13, < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvd_yOi_80 >, transcript below, and at                                                                                                               

<https://therealnews.com/wendy-brown-neoliberalisms-anti-democratic-stealth-revolution>


4).  “Thom Hartmann presents The Hidden History of Neoliberalism”,  video, duration 1:00:53, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiH7Iv5sVs >

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Urban Housing Struggles During Periods of Right-Wing Mobilization and Power:

  1).  “Modern Housing w/ Gail Radford”, 

Dec 11,  2022, Daniel Denvir interviews Gail Raford about her book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era, duration of interview audio 2:37:15, The Dig, at < https://thedigradio.com/podcast/modern-housing-w-gail-radford/ >


Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans.


Note: This is a link to an audio file there is no transcript - no text.

2).  “Red Vienna: The enduring legacy of an architecture of hope”

January 8, 2020, Dennis Broe,  peoplesworld.org, at <https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/red-vienna-the-enduring-legacy-of-an-architecture-of-hope/>

3).  “Red Vienna: A worker’s paradise”,   

n.d.,  Anson Rabinbach, Virtual Vienna, originally published at www.metropolismag.com, at < https://www.virtualvienna.net/the-city-its-people/history-vienna/red-vienna/ >


4).  “Remembering Red Vienna”,

Feb 10, 2017,  Veronika Duma & Hanna Lichtenberger, Translation by  Loren Balhorn, Jacobin.com, Republished from LuXemburg

At < https://jacobin.com/2017/02/red-vienna-austria-housing-urban-planning/ >


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Monday, December 26, 2022

Merry Christmas from the U.S. Ruling Class!!

 “Congress, Biden boost war spending at the expense of social programs”, Dec 22, 2022, Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site, at                                                             < https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/23/vxoy-d23.html >

“Which States Are Givers and Which Are Takers? (And is that even the correct way to frame the question?)”, May 5, 2014 -  Updated on March 8, 2017. John Tierney, The Atlantic, at                                                                                         <https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/ >

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