Hip Hop
Schools of Door Knocks
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Deciding to become a community organizer used to mean post-college purgatory. Now it’s a lifelong profession. City Limits examines 15 organizing schools that prep tomorrow’s rabble-rousers.
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HOUSING PLAN BREWING IN BUSHWICK CHUGS ALONG
Matt Pacenza |
A plan to build hundreds of units of housing in Bushwick passed phase I of the land-use approval process last week, taking a step closer to becoming one of the first “brownfields” to be developed in the state.
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Guest Privileges
Laura Ciechanowski |
A lawsuit challenges welfare offices’ ban on bringing a friend.
Hillary Clinton
The Young and the Leftist
Kathleen McGowan |
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.
Bronx
Unfunded Yout
Elizabeth Corona |
Bushwick teens protest the lack of youth programs in their neighborhood.
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Stars Big and Small
Kathleen McGowan |
If, by chance, you were idly wondering what Elizabeth Hurley, Heather Locklear and Miss USA 1999 might have to contribute to the struggle for community change, listen up.
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BUSHWICK'S LEAD STORY
Kathleen McGowan |
A quick survey of a handful of homes in Bushwick shows that lead paint and little children share many more apartments than you might think.
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TRANSLATION: SEE YOU IN COURT
Kathleen McGowan |
An coalition of advocates is taking the city to court over its unwillingness to translate welfare and food stamp assistance into other languages.
Latino
THE OTHER CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Amanda Bell |
An organizing drive at the city’s Clinton welfare center hopes to change some caseworkers’ bad habits.
Homelessness
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Kemba Johnson |
Que? A new study shows that most Spanish-speaking applicants for welfare had trouble communicating with their caseworkers, and a lawsuit follows.
