The Artist Taxi Driver, Noam Chomsky and the Boston eviction blockades

[limpyhobbler]

via Occupy London website

May 1, 2013

On April 25th Occupy Radio LDN arrived in Boston Massachusetts. Activists spent a week showing a member of the Occupy Radio LDN team around the city. ...

Our first stop was with the local housing justice campaign City Life Vida Urbana a housing justice movement in Jamaica Plain [a suburb in the south] . The movement is made up of organisers, volunteers and tenants. They provide emotional support and solidarity for people facing foreclosure, they provide free legal support, eviction blockades and they coordinate community lead campaigns against the institutions responsible.



The movement’s mission statement reads:

“City Life Vida Urbana is a 38-year-old bilingual, community organization whose mission is to fight for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power through direct action, coalition building, education and advocacy. In organizing poor and working class people of diverse race and nationalities, we promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders, and are building a movement to effect systemic change and transform society.”
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Later that week Occupy Radio made a stop at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the North of Boston. A brief interview had been arranged with Professor Noam Chomsky. We discussed activism, organising and thinking about a newsociety. But to kick it off we played Chomsky a video clip of The Artist Taxi Driver delivering a characteristically brutal indictment of austerity and the ruling class.
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[Half-Century Man]

1. A good Pair

I liked Twice Thou and The Artist Taxi Driver, Check em out.