On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
It pits a community group against real estate developer Bruce > Resnick who intended to remove home-owners and businesses from the > very spot upon which he sought to build an enormous complex. > Unless I'm badly confused, you mean Bruce Ratner. By way of trivia, he's brother to Michael Ratner, head of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and father to The Nation's Lizzy Ratner, who recently edited The Goldstone Report for Nation Books. Ratner may be "a truly despicable figure," as capitalists generally are, but I confess to having a soft spot for him. Not only does he use all union labor on his projects and implement living wage policies that bind their commercial tenants, but he has a penchant for funding causes that are radical, if not revolutionary, and unlikely to endear him to the rest of his class and mileau. He is, if nothing else, the least slimy mega-developer this city has to offer (which certainly may not be saying much). -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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