- Thomas Paine and His Importance to Progressives
The Center for Populist Urban Politics had the pleasure recently to sit down with actor, Ian Ruskin who is preparing to begin film production of his one-man play entitled “To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine”. In his pursuit to create the most authentic depiction of Thomas Paine possible, Ian has ...
- The Man With The Blue Guitar
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The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”
The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”
And they said then. “But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,
A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things ...
- Interview with Ellen Brown – What is the Solution to Our Fragile Financial System?
https://youtu.be/k6-kues3qGQ
Last week the Center for Populist Urban Politics had the good fortune to sit down with Ellen Brown, Author, activist, and luminary on the nation’s banking system and discuss with her the reforms needed to bring our financial system back into the service of not just the 1% but all of the country’s citizens. There ...
- Interview With Urban Homestead
In its continuing search to find citizens who are doing things to improve themselves, their families, communities, cities, states and country, the folks at IFSPP conducted a lengthy interview with Jules Dervaes, the patriarch of the Urban Homestead in Pasadena, California.
Surrounded by urban sprawl and just a short distance from a freeway, the Urban Homestead ...
Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.
Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we ...
On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took ...
Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a ...