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Power to the Neighborhoods / Joseph Marguelies

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Legal scholar Joseph Marguelies talks to Chuck about his Boston Review article "A Path to Neighborhood Power." We have new answers to this week's Question from Hell!, and other shenanigans.

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every day.

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If I will.

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You come my mind, maybe.

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I'm so alive.

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I'm so alive. This is hell and the great

0:41.0

fortune of gentrification is an outcome of the great crime of

0:44.8

neoliberalism a crime that destabilizes communities destroying neighborhoods

0:48.7

and displacing its residents into worse and worse housing and living conditions with fewer resources that tear

0:55.5

apart much-needed safety nuts for the marginalized, often people of color who need

1:00.3

them most, or so argues today's guest.

1:04.0

Neol liberalism and the gentrification it ushers in undermines democracy and the ability

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for people to make the choices that are best for them, relegating such power to outsiders, often self-described experts from

1:15.3

non-profits or local institutions like universities and hospitals decide what's

1:20.4

best for the poor, despite not having a clue as to what the poor really need.

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But there are alternatives that can bring stability.

1:29.0

There are other options that it can improve the lives of the poor

1:32.0

with greater political empowerment.

1:35.0

There are different ways that communities can address their distressed economies and dilapidated environments,

1:41.0

often made toxic by the worst of capitalist practices that put profits before people,

1:46.5

the value that value money more than they value humanity.

1:50.8

And a few minutes we'll speak with attorney and legal scholar Joseph Margulies, who is the

1:55.6

author of Thanks for everything. Now get out. Can we restore neighborhoods without

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