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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Power of the Poor

In 1966, New York City Mayor John Lindsey named Mitchell Ginsburg as his first commissioner of social services. He ordered his department to prepare an advertising campaign to encourage people to get on welfare. The aim was to generate severe political strains and deepen existing divisions among elements in the big city democratic coalition. Fred Siegel writes quote: They saw the poor and located the value of the poor in their potential as revolutionaries.

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