On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Another thing to consider is that Manhattan, where many movement
> leaders and intellectuals seem determined to to have offices, is not a
> hospitable place for growing a Left that can challenge the Democratic
> Party. An absence of news about New York activists occupying HRC's
> offices, in contrast to occupations of Democratic congresspeople's
> offices in Toledo, OH, Denver, CO, Sacramento, CA, etc., is an index
> of the Democratic Party hegemony over NY leftists. (Is that because
> NY leftists need Democrats for rent control and stablization to be
> able to live in Manhattan at all?)
I think most of them actually live in Brooklyn or Queens. People like me, with a rent-stabilized apartment in an upscale Manhattan neighborhood, are a dwindling breed. And with a growing kid, we're not going to be there much longer, either.
Doug