On 6/17/2011 2:22 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > 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). >
I had [Stuart] Resnick in mind because he is mentioned in the article as well--another Bard trustee and scumbag billionaire. As far as jobs are concerned, Ratner promised 10,000 jobs through the project but as the film states in the closing credits, only 110 construction jobs have been created, and of these only 14 are held by Blacks. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
