The United States of America is one of the only places on earth where all sense of a public space, let alone public duty, is off the table as a matter of faith. Privacy, ownership and profit are what we are about.
Reverend Billy | Posted 08.31.2009 | New York
The corporations and their politicians are watching where we put our bodies and how we raise our voices. They come running with renta-cops at the slightest suggestion of freedom.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
One of the ways in which city life isn't what it used to be is that so much of what used to be public is no longer public. As a result, some of our humanity is lost, to say nothing of efficient travel.
Reverend Billy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
Our neighborhoods are healthy, better for children and for families, when citizens are not afraid of tickets and fines, of stops and intimidation.
Reverend Billy | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living
If the bull-horn is seized, the old diner is bulldozed. But if the bull-horn has its free speech, the diner stays. Compassion needs the voices. We solved the crime.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics