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Who’s Gonna Close?
3-6-25 – By Josh Poe – @DaRealHanYolo on X As spring training rages on, I feel strange about this team. I am excited, yet not. One of the main things that excites me is the pitching rotation. This rotation looks to be the best of my lifetime. I was born in 1999, but since then, there have been good rotations you have seen this year, and it stands out. This rotation is easily among the top ten in baseball and could propel them into a spot for the playoffs.
Talk to Your Neighbors and Stand Your Ground
The following is a transcript of the video above from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. Wes Pelletier: If someone’s getting evicted, it might be too late. Everyone on this call: even if you don’t rent, just get used to building community. Get used to talking to your neighbors, be weird and go ask for something that you would have to run out to the store for.
Unpacking Biden’s Latest Student Debt Forgiveness Plan—And What’s Next? - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Not long ago, most federal student loan borrowers received the following email message from the US Department of Education: As a result of legislation enacted by Congress, the student loan payment pause is ending. Student loan interest will resume Sept. 1, 2023. Payments will be due in October 2023 for most borrowers. We understand that your life may have changed since the last time you made a student loan payment, or this may be your very first time making a payment.
Experiments in Community Ownership Taking Charge of Commercial Real Estate
Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” In 2016, activists in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, a historically diverse and predominantly Latinx community, were organizing against gentrification that was encroaching on their community.
How Does Self-Interest Create Movement Unity?
The following is a transcript of the video above from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places.” View the full webinar here. Josh Poe: I think there are two parts of this question: One, how do we organize? Then, how does our organizing build power? We really try to organize around self-interest as opposed to ideology.
Tenants Unions Are How We Win in the South
I want to tell you a story about where I’m from. I’m from Appalachia and grew up in northeastern Kentucky on my papaw’s small tobacco farm and as a kid I worked in tobacco fields. After we harvested my papaw’s tobacco, I would go work for the surrounding landowners. Tobacco work was piecework. You were paid 7 cents for every stick you cut. My papaw told me to demand 10 cents for every tobacco stick I cut and to make sure everyone else who worked in the field also got 10 cents.
Remaking the Economy: Tenant Organizing in Unexpected Places
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Louisville's eviction rate is being ignored as landlords become more aggressive
Josh Poe, Opinion contributor Published 6:42 a.m. ET July 10, 2019 | Updated 6:42 a.m. ET July 10, 2019 The eviction rate in Louisville is double the national average. Following a 2018 report on evictions by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, the director of Develop Louisville stated that evictions were something that had “just now come to light.” Meaning that the issue had not been important enough to merit much attention until Princeton shed light on it.
Louisville housing policies cater to developers at the expense of black residents
Josh Poe, Opinion contributor Published 6:42 a.m. ET July 10, 2019 In 34 cities, at least 13% of households are severely cost-burdened--and almost half of the cities are in California. Louisville Courier Journal Gentrification happens when rent outpaces income. Wealth creation in the U.S. is connected to the exploitation of black communities. Free labor through slavery birthed U.S. wealth. The exploitation of black workers, through low wages, then stabilized industrial markets for a century.
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