Friday, December 28, 2007
Benazir Bhutto
Let us heed her words in her memory:
"Dictatorship neglects the basic needs of the people. And when their basic needs to clothing, to housing, to drinking water, to economic advancement is neglected, the poverty and the desperation is a fertile ground for the extremists to exploit."
-- Benazir Bhutto on NPR this June (see http://www.npr.org/about/press/2007/060407.bhutto.html )
"Dictatorship neglects the basic needs of the people. And when their basic needs to clothing, to housing, to drinking water, to economic advancement is neglected, the poverty and the desperation is a fertile ground for the extremists to exploit."
-- Benazir Bhutto on NPR this June (see http://www.npr.org/about/press/2007/060407.bhutto.html )
Labels: Bhutto, extremists, NPR, poverty
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Property & Poverty
I am currently writing the chapter about property ownership as a marker of citizenship. And, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. makes the connection so very clear in his Op-Ed in Today's NYT "Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth." That is a must read, as is Teacherken's diary on the DailyKOS--he articulates what I would have herein.
Teacherken:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/18/54936/576
Gates in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18gates.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
Teacherken:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/18/54936/576
Gates in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18gates.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
Labels: dailykos, poverty, property, Skip Gates, teacherken
