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Valerie Vande Panne

Tag: Detroit

I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib

Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…

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18 May 2019

Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke visited Michigan last week. Shirtsleeves carefully rolled up, he stood on tabletops across metro Detroit…

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25 Mar 2019

Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids

As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without…

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14 Sep 2018

Rashida Tlaib on Democratic Socialism and Why She Supports the Palestinian Right of Return

The newly elected Democratic nominee for Congress talks about how she plans to help working-class Detroit and why she supports…

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16 Aug 2018

Smart cities look to their citizens, not multi-national corporations

U.S. cities, it seems, sometimes are setting themselves up for decay, with big tax giveaways, ever-rising prices and systems that put the bulk of…

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7 Feb 2018

Five big myths sold by the defenders of capitalism

I’ve been writing about the economic and environmental realities of marginalized communities for some time, primarily from the perspective of…

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10 Jan 2018

Detroit’s Garbage Incinerator

Smells like environmental racism. Here’s a bit that got cut for space from the final version, but which I think is…

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25 Oct 2017

Time banking and health

On how time banking is fostering healthier communities. AlterNet.

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9 Aug 2017

This is Hell!

Not really. But that’s the name of the Saturday morning show I was on, in Chicago. Listen here or on soundcloud.

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18 Jul 2017

Saturday morning radio

I’ll be on WNUR 89.3FM Chicago on Saturday, July 15 at 11:05am EST talking Detroit’s underground economies.

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12 Jul 2017

Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root

Detroit’s Underground Economy, my latest for In These Times, with photos by Erik Paul Howard.

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29 Jun 2017

Books for Detroit

Last year, we did a successful book drive for Detroit’s Osborn High School. Now, we are taking the project to…

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27 May 2017
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