[lbo-talk] Save the Doodle!

[Jesse Lemisch]

No, I can't imagine fighting for the Yankee Doodle. But I have participated
in related struggles on the upper West Side of Manhattan, sometimes
successfully, e.g. fighting to keep an excellent neighborhood pharmacy going
against rent increases. But I keep telling my comrades in such struggles
that we will fight this again and again, up and down Broadway, unless the
struggle is politicized around seeking commercial rent control (which was
even part of Ruth Messinger's program.)

What's your solution to the chainification of the neighborhoods?

Jesse Lemisch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Save the Doodle!


> Anyone who went to Yale in the last 50 years knows the Yankee Doodle,
> a coffee shop near the campus that's just been put out of business by
> rising rents. For some reason, the NY Times thought this worthy of a
> story, and a Facebook group to save the Doodle has 2,551 members (not
> me though).
>
> <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10468322171>
>
> Amazing. Aren't there other things to get mobilized about?
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