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DESCRIPTION:It's an all too familiar scene in every city in the U.S.: houses and 
 businesses are abandoned and boarded up; entire neighborhoods lie derelict; 
 factories that once employed hundreds or thousands are ghostly hulks, their 
 time long since passed. Youth—overwhelmingly Black and Latino—with no 
 jobs and no hopes of getting one hang out, passing the time and trying to 
 figure a way to scrape some cash together while everything around them 
 crumbles. But there's no work, and no prospects for work.\n\nPull back a 
 little bit. Entire cities and regions of the U.S. are desolate; once 
 booming industries are shut down completely or teetering on the verge of 
 extinction. The figures are brutal, but they only hint at the reality of 
 crushed lives, abandoned dreams, and lost hope they represent. The 
 unemployment rate for Black people is nearly double that for whites. It is 
 higher still among Black youth. In the spring and summer, youth 
 unemployment rose by 571,000, most of that among inner city Black and 
 Latino youth. Hundreds of thousands of jobless youth live in largely Black 
 cities like East St. Louis, Detroit, and Newark.\n\n\nPull back a bit more. 
 You'll see that tens of millions of people live every day in a desperate 
 struggle to survive. At least two million Mexican peasants were forced out 
 of the countryside to seek work elsewhere between 1995 and 2008. In China, 
 millions of young people live in wretched slums thrown up in China's large 
 cities, struggling for the barest survival in China's headlong dash to 
 establish itself as a capitalist power on the world stage. In the continent 
 of Africa, devastated and tormented for centuries by colonialism, 
 capitalism, and imperialism, official unemployment in Namibia is 51.2 
 percent; in Zimbabwe, a staggering 95 percent.\n\nMassive unemployment rips 
 like a plague across this planet. In the U.S., inner city youth grow up and 
 come of age knowing that this society has nothing to offer them, no way for 
 them to contribute, no way for them to even hope to live a life worthy of a 
 human being. The paths this society—this capitalist-imperialist 
 system—offers to countless youth are savagely hard and soulless: prison, 
 crime, the military, a shit job in a fast food place—maybe, and for as 
 long as you can take it. And quite possibly, whatever the choice, an early 
 death.\n(read entire article)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/01/18665411.php
SUMMARY:"A World, and a System of Unemployment" presentation & discussion at Revolution Books
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/01/18665411.php
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