Thursday, January 24, 2019

As The “Library Squasher” Rises, Developer of Luxury Towers Advertises Views From Middle Apartments (On 26th Floor) That Look Down On Federal Courthouse Once Challenged as Too Tall

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The wealthy who can afford to buy apartments on the floors in the upper portion of the luxury building replacing the central destination d...

With Scathing “Perpetual War Letter” Email William Arkin Self-exiles Himself From NBC (And the Rest of Corporate Mainstream) Thus Adding Himself To Our List Of Journalists Similarly Absent Or Banished Because of Their Views

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Just a few weeks ago, we added Marc Lamont Hill , fired from CNN for expressing views sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, to ...
Friday, January 18, 2019

WBAI Radio- An Important Voice- Keeping It Meaningful & Alternative (Library Defenders Running For Its Local Station Board)

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With the consolidation of most media into just six conglomerates and the pervasive influence of monied interests, it is increasing import...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

No Available Publishers, Threat To Abandon The Book, Then A Pulitzer: Should Gilbert King’s “Devil in the Grove,” A Black Lives Matter Book About The Groveland Four, Be On Our List Of Suppressed Books?

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Gilbert King, author of “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” on Democracy Now and a...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

As Striking L.A. Teachers Push Back, Analysis That Profit-Seeking Billionaires Are Desperate To Privatize In Order To Lower Expectations And Prove Government Doesn't Work (cf: Fights For Green New Deal and Universal Healthcare)

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On Deomcracy Now's report on the Los Angeles teachers strike against privatization: Cecily Myart-Cruz and Eric Blanc We could write ...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Our Defending Libraries Testimony On Councilman Steve Levin's Proposal To Change NYC Law To Pour More Money Into Mayor de Blasio's Legal Defense Fund For Fending Off Pay-To-Play Investigations

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Steve Levin at the hearing on his proposal to help de Blasio pay his legal bills for being investigated for selling off public assets like...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

NYPL Trustee Stephen A. Schwarzman, With His $1 Billion Salary, Claims Success `NOT Because We’re Smarter’, But Because `We Just See Things Others Can’t See,’ Have Data Others Don’t, And Get Advance Warnings

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Its sort of a creepy thought: Seeing what “others can’t see.”   We wondered who else might be unnerved by some of the things in a new Bar...