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DESCRIPTION:	\nThe global economic crisis that started in 2007 was ignited by the 
 collapse of the housing bubble, mostly centered on the massive real-estate 
 boom over the last decade throughout the U.S., but especially in 
 California. California’s Central Valley was already the birthplace of 
 industrial chemical-intensive agribusiness, but the planet’s most 
 productive farmland began to be paved over by subprime loan-fueled housing 
 developments – now the Valley is home to the largest collection of empty 
 houses on earth, many sitting side-by-side with tent cities and shantytowns 
 occupied by the unemployed workers who built them, in towns and cities with 
 the highest unemployment rates in the U.S. Thrown into the toxic mix are 
 ruling class schemes to privatize California’s water, while the air in 
 the Central Valley is the dirtiest in the U.S. This presentation is a road 
 trip through California’s landscape of toxicity: of mortgages and 
 ecosystems, houses, enclosure of the commons (especially education), a 
 prison-building boom, drugs and human relations. This multimedia 
 presentation will be followed by a participatory discussion of possible 
 ways of fighting back.\n\nGifford Hartman teaches adult education and is an 
 independent working class historian; he is a member of the Insane 
 Dialectical Posse (see accounts of their solidarity actions at: 
 FlyingPicket.org).\n\nFor further reading:\n"Crisis in California: 
 Everything Touched by Capital Turns Toxic": 
 http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/california/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/06/18689610.php
SUMMARY:Crisis in California: Everything Touched by Capital Turns Toxic
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/06/18689610.php
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