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The liquidation of our commonwealth continues to gather steam. Several months after I published an article focusing on the sale of the downtown post office in Modesto, California, I learned that my own post office might soon be on the… read more
Author, folklorist, environmentalist, labor activist, and human rights advocate, Stetson Kennedy, died last year at age 94. During the Depression, Kennedy joined the WPA in Florida and worked for the Florida Writers Project. Kennedy published eight books, including “The Klan Unmasked.”… read more
New Deal art is endangered as post offices are sold off, public buildings shuttered, and artworks are relegated to museum vaults and private collections. The New York Times reports that the University of California misplaced, then sold a 22-foot-wide carving by renowned African-American artist… read more
The University of California has sold off a redwood carving by renowned Berkeley African American artist Sargent Johnson. The sculpture, completed in 1937, hung in the School for Deaf and Blind, now the Clark Kerr Campus, of UC Berkeley. Johnson worked for… read more
The Venice post office is a gem built by the federal government during the Great Depression. Its tile roof and New Deal artist-created mural makes it one of the classic works of the 30’s. Now it is threatened by… read more
The Venice post office is a gem built by the federal government during the Great Depression. Its tile roof and New Deal artist-created mural makes it one of the classic works of the 30’s. Now it is threatened by… read more
Thomas Frank is author of a provocative new book, Pity the Billionaire, on how Tea Party Populism derailed a New New Deal. Editor’s note from AlterNet: In 2008, the house of cards came crashing down around us, and all of… read more
130 Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR’s World “[If people] were to pause for a moment to consider just how much Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership continues to influence their lives, they might soon conclude, as the late… read more
