[lbo-talk] "5000 Worker March": activistism gives rise to planning meeting

[Doug Henwood]

Charles Brown wrote:

>Any LBO-talkers and planners, theoreticians, empiricists and factcheckers,
>have any idea on how to portray Wall$treet's relationship to Detroit ? Who
>owns Detroit ?

That's a good question. An old friend of mine who used to work at 
Newsday once tried to get the paper to fund an investigation of who 
owned Manhattan. They almost went for it but chickened out. Basically 
no one really knows who owns Manhattan (and the buildings and the 
land are generally owned by different people). If by who owns Detroit 
you mean who owns the auto companies, that's pretty easy: big 
institutional investors. If you mean who owns the buildings and the 
land, that could be a big investigative project. The info is probably 
available, but I doubt it's in some easily analyzable form.

Doug