Fighting Gentrification

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2009/06/fighting-gentrification

The Riverside Church in Manhattan is mobilizing to "fight Harlem gentrification" at the same time that it was paying its senior pastor a compensation package whose value reportedly exceeded $600,000 a year. The New York Times reports that said pastor has now resigned, thus doing his own part to fight Harlem gentrification. Earlier this month, the church hosted Noam Chomsky, who railed against capitalism at an event that, according to this Web page, was "made possible with public funds" from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the "Folklife Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency."

by Editor  |  Jun 30, 2009 at 9:31 pm Related Topics:  Compensation receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list