TODAY'S QUOTE
It takes courage to interrogate yourself. - Cornel West
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Russia says it will not allow Syria no-fly zones
Russia, a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, will not permit no-fly zones to be imposed over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday. "I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario," Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding that calls for a no-fly zone showed disrespect for international law. Read more...
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Lenny Henry: 'People thought I was an Uncle Tom'
From his early days as a comic on the 1970s TV talent show New Faces; to his appearances on children’s show Tiswas; starring alongside Norman Beaton in The Fosters; launching his own production company Crucial Films – which produced the revered BBC sitcom The Real McCoy – earning his own self-titled TV show; performing throughout the world with stand-up tours; co-founding Comic Relief; providing the voice of Elephant in the children’s animation Tinga Tinga Tales; and receiving the lifetime achievement performance award at the 2003 British Comedy Awards – to name just a few accomplishments – Henry has enjoyed a hugely successful and varied career. But even with his fame and fortune, the comic hasn’t turned a blind eye to the issue of the lack of black representation on British television. Last month, he hit the headlines when he criticised the BAFTA Awards, saying: "There weren't any black people at the BAFTAs; there was no black talent. There's just not enough programmes with black people in them.” Standing by his comments, Henry said: “I said what I said about BAFTA and I was partly joking, but it was true. In order to be nominated, you’ve got to be in things!…
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First gentrification, then plutocratisation: "The great cities are becoming elite citadels"
First, the working classes and bohemians were priced out. Nowadays the only ribald proletarian banter you hear inside Paris is from the market sellers, who don’t live there anymore. That was gentrification. Now comes plutocratisation: the middle classes and small companies are falling victim to class-cleansing. Global cities are becoming patrician ghettos. In 2009, says Sassen, the top 1 per cent of New York City’s earners got 44 per cent of the compensation paid to its workers. The “super-prime housing market” keeps rising even when the national economy collapses. After Manhattan, New York’s upper-middle classes are being priced out of Brooklyn. Sassen diagnoses “gradual destruction”. Global cities are turning into vast gated communities where the one per cent reproduces itself. Elite members don’t live there for their jobs. They work virtually anyway. Rather, global cities are where they network with each other, and put their kids through their country’s best schools. The elite talks about its cities in ostensibly innocent language, says Sassen: “a good education for my child,” “my neighbourhood and its shops”. But the truth is exclusion. Read more...
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