Banks or families? This is the false choice that big banks and the American Bankers Association are offering Congress as they move to eviscerate the…
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Here’s another little Havana/L.A. mashup about art and redevelopment. One of my other favorite places in Havana is the Callejón de Hamel, a small alley…
Last month I had the privilege and rare opportunity to visit Cuba, traveling along with the FourStory crew, friends, and family. A dozen or so…
This is a followup to January’s DIT video and article on How to Make a Storyboard. This time I’ll give deeper instructions by going into…
Popular education is education for a genuine democracy. This statement immediately raises two big questions. The first question is: how do people really learn? They...
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One way to reduce inequality is to actually tax people who have lots of money and won’t be harmed by contributing it to the public…
Democracy is basically a system that lets people make decisions together
Storyboards are a way to present the elements of a story in a sequence. They are used a lot by people who make movies and…
As of December 15, these necessary demands are not doing too well at COP 15. Check out Gopal Dayaneni’s video blog from the Right to…
Dr. Pop is really about storytelling — about who gets to tell the story, how it gets told and how to figure out what the…
Question: Will more people take the stairs if it is turned into a piano? Answer: Yes. Question: Will more people throw away trash if the…
Three artists help break the economic crisis down into things that we can see and touch and feel … and use. 1. Golden Globe by…
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless named Los Angeles the No. 1 “Meanest City” out of…
Considerable genius has been applied of late to the business of making facts come alive in maps in ways that allow us to visualize inequality…
This is a post from last September 2008, from Brazil. where I attended my first annual meeting as a Synergos Senior Fellow and had the…
For comic book and funnies fans, the economic crisis has spawned plenty to educate and entertain. Here are a few: Economic Meltdown Funnies First up,…
ProPublica The most comprehensive, comprehensible, and up-to-date resource about where bail-out money is going, to whom, and for what purpose is the ProPublica site —…
One silver-lining of the current economic crisis is the increased level of interest in teaching and learning about the economy. There is now some great…
While focusing on the current economic meltdown, I came across this flier that I made about 20 years ago. Gone but not forgotten, is our…
Here is a transcript of Cecil Corbin-Mark’s remarks, speaking at People’s Planning School: about working with planning professionals, the link between planning and health, and…