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…
I recently received a kick-ass comment from a friend of mine named Stuart Murphy. He had some insight to share on the development of the…
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…
Big time developer Ed Roski Jr. has plans to bring professional football, and by that I mean American smash mouth football, not soccer, back to…
This month Dr. Pop is all about sports and politics, about the ways that the love of the game gets mixed up with the…
Plan for London Olympics 2012 Village Photo: ecofriend.org In 2012, London will be hosting the Summer Olympics, “the greenest games to date” according to the…
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…
The amount you can learn might come as a surprise if you don’t read the sports pages, and possibly even if you do. Last month…
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…
For a general introduction to the theory and practice of restorative justice, check out: Restorative Justice online. I sat next to an astrophysicist on the…
I recently attended a public lecture given by Andrew Simms, the Policy Director of the new economics foundation, a UK-based think tank that develops new…
As mentioned in my previous post – back to the future of dystopia – with an emphasis on re-zoning sci-fi style. I can’t cite the…
Democracy is basically a system that lets people make decisions together
I saw Jane Wills of Queen Mary University of London speak last night on the battle for a living wage in the UK, a great…
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…
James Cameron has a baseball cap with the letters HMFIC on its crown. As this is a family-friendly site, I won’t spell out what those…
Five months ago, Brixton, one of the coolest areas of London, adopted its own currency, shown on the right below – the Brixton pound. (scroll…
If you sit very still and stare at downtown L.A. from the window of the Bonaventure Hotel’s cocktail lounge, this is what you will see:…