There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy.
Archive - 2007
Affordable Housing in Austin- Tools to Fight Gentrification
By georgessorel - Posted on September 29th, 2007
<p>The big issue in Austin is the cost of housing, and the fact that as Austin has become a hot spot recognized around the country, folks have been flooding in and driving up rental and purchasing costs of homes, much to the chagrin of natives, low-income groups, civil rights organizations, environmentalists- well basically everyone besides developers.</p>
<p>We talk and talk this issue to death, and I can't count the number of times I've heard people bash the Californians and their McMansions, but apart from some dynamic organizations like PODER or the Texas Affordable Housing Project, people don't seem to fight gentrification. It causes enormous anger, but people don't seem to know what to do about it, what tools they can use to fight it.</p>
<p><b>Austin Affordable Housing Crisis General Assembly</b></p>
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Unions Resist Privatization in Haiti
By Anonymous - Posted on September 10th, 2007
Tagged: World
by David Morris
A coalition of Haitian unions has announced a series of activities to mobilize the people to resist the privatization of government operations in Haiti.
