Posts Tagged Obama
Small Business Dramas: Surviving the Depression
February 6, 2010 by Administrator
by Atim Annette Oton, Feb 6, 2010 Even as the media continues to proclaim that things are getting better and the statistics are showing some improvements, the truth is for small businesses in local communities, it’s not getting better. Just talk to any small business today and you will hear the “pain” as well as [...]
Working Your Creative Enterprise|2 Comments
Tags: Bread-Stuy, Brooklyn, export, Obama, partner, recession, small business, state of the union
How I Supported the Obama Phenomenon
January 3, 2010 by Administrator
by Janice D. Williams-Myers What strikes me about the “Obama Phenomenon – this Movement,” is what I remarked to a young skinny white kid back in Iowa during the Kerry presidential campaign in 2004 when we both worked to get him elected. Back then as now with the Obama campaign, my work was through my [...]
2008 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|1 Comment
Tags: 1199/SEIU, Barack Obama, Janice D. Williams-Myers, Obama, Yes We Can
From the future to the Future
January 3, 2010 by Administrator
by Crystal Dundas I have once heard someone say “ovaries over gender”, at first I didn’t know what to make of it, but now that the primaries and the dirty political tricks is half done I could say that not everyone felt the same way. Not everyone fell for the already broken promises of the [...]
2008 - articles, Culture, Travel & Heritage, Features|3 Comments
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama
An Exhausted Spring
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, May 2009 I am exhausted. Been out of work since end of October and well, being out of work; looking for work is work. The editor asked for something on the environment, but this time, I got to talk politics, the economy and very ugly buildings. We have a new President [...]
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Tags: American Ideal, Bloomberg, COBRA payments, Democratic Party, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Republicans, Wall Street, William Thompson
Audacity is Key
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, June/July 2008 The heat broke this morning after a storm of noisy violence. Cats were cowering from side of Brooklyn to the other. But we welcome the coolness and the chance to walk about and breathe without gasping. In a way, that is how it feels to contemplate changes in the [...]
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Tags: Audacity, Bedford-Stuyvesant, ld Confederacy, Liberia, Myanmar, Obama, post-racial, Robert Mugabe, Save Darfur People