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Under the Radar

Under the Radar By Ben Becker “[T]o exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not. And what I'm saying is, yes, I found a flaw.” —Alan Greenspan in an October 2008 response to whether he feels that his ideology pushed him to make decisions he wishes he hadn’t made. Mayor Richard Daley has defended the Chicago Community Center move as an expedient way to cover the city’s h olds t wenty-Four-h our v igil, budget shortfall, but he faces growing pressure protesting against from working-class residents who are demand- n ew p arking m eter p olicy ing that he: “Stop the rate hikes [and] make the banks pay for their crisis!” In December 2008, the City of Chicago turned over its thirty-six thousand parking police Checkpoints meters to Morgan Stanley, which bought the ruled Unconstitutional rights to meter revenues for $1.2 billion. Some estimate the actual worth of the meters, which in d .C. Community will belong to the finance company for seventy- Community activists in Washington, five years, at $5 billion. Upon receiving the D.C. scored a precedent-setting legal victory meters, the Wall Street giant immediately raised against a checkpoint program set up by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Under the Radar

Becker, Ben
New Labor Forum , Volume 19 (1): 2 – Feb 1, 2010
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© 2010 Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
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1095-7960
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1557-2978
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10.4179/NLF.191.0000002
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By Ben Becker “[T]o exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not. And what I'm saying is, yes, I found a flaw.” —Alan Greenspan in an October 2008 response to whether he feels that his ideology pushed him to make decisions he wishes he hadn’t made. Mayor Richard Daley has defended the Chicago Community Center move as an expedient way to cover the city’s h olds t wenty-Four-h our v igil, budget shortfall, but he faces growing pressure protesting against from working-class residents who are demand- n ew p arking m eter p olicy ing that he: “Stop the rate hikes [and] make the banks pay for their crisis!” In December 2008, the City of Chicago turned over its thirty-six thousand parking police Checkpoints meters to Morgan Stanley, which bought the ruled Unconstitutional rights to meter revenues for $1.2 billion. Some estimate the actual worth of the meters, which in d .C. Community will belong to the finance company for seventy- Community activists in Washington, five years, at $5 billion. Upon receiving the D.C. scored a precedent-setting legal victory meters, the Wall Street giant immediately raised against a checkpoint program set up by

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Published: Feb 1, 2010

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