New New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is faced with reversing a half century of city policies stemming from the beginning of the neoliberal era of the mid-1970s, says Judith Jorrisch.
Interviewer: Joe Lauria. Guest: Judith Jorrisch Time: 51m, 52s
Judith Jorrisch is an organizer and activist who has been deeply involved in New York City politics for decades. She traces the city’s crisis of inequality — which Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani won last week’s election to alleviate — to the earliest neo-liberal policies of austerity stemming from New York’s financial crisis of the mid-1970s that nearly led to the city’s bankruptcy.
President Gerald Ford’s refusal to bail the city out led to the infamous New York Daily News headline: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.”
The result was to give inordinate power to private finance and property developers, who still wield that influence. It is this entrenched power that Mamdani must address if he hopes to fulfill his campaign promises, says Jorrisch.
President Gerald R. Ford meeting Governor Hugh Carey of New York (left) and Mayor Abraham Beame (right) of New York City in the Cabinet Room to discuss federal financial aid for New York City, May 13, 1975. (Gerald R. Ford Library, Ann Arbor, MI/ National Archives and Records Administration/ Wikimedia Commons)
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Perhaps Zorhan can start with the low hanging apples in his first six months to a year? For instance turn the volume down in the city. We are becoming deaf with the police sirens, ambulances, fire engines and aggressive motor bikes. These vehicles have flashing lights to express urgency. Any defensive driver would see urgency by watching their mirrors with a lower decibel sound. Why do we have to spike up our heart rates? How about that for starters? He can also address free buses and rent freezes while he settles into the job.
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I’m all for economic populism, it’s the only way to go. NYC rents and housing costs are extraordinarily out of control, beyond absurd. Something obviously has to be done about it.
But economic populism tends to ring hollow and seems a bit silly if we’re not also going to attach to it restrictionist immigration policies. One reason (not the sole reason of course) NYC costs are outrageous is due to the influx on the demand side.
History can never be undone, but when the Rubicon is reached – “passing a point of no return”, it must definitely be crossed, as a stepping stone to whatever the future may bring.
No joke! What happened when three dyed in the wool Americans; two, born into the Christian religion, and the third, into the Judaic religion – an Anglican, an Irish Catholic, and a Polish Jew met in the West Wing Cabinet Room of the White House to discuss federal financial aid for New York City, May 13, 1975.
Answer: they arbitrarily decided – in cahoots, among themselves and their ilk to perpetuate the power of Plutocracy, in the best interests of those who pull the strings.
A picture of history in the making!
“The History Mamdani Must Undo…. reversing a half century of city policies.”
For this one ‘muckraking’ (now, where have ‘we’ heard that word before – those who “dig deep for the facts”) commenter; given overall U.S. history, ‘reversing’ means going backwards; the opposite of moving ahead into a new untrammeled future.
History can never be undone! Yet it is too often repeated, and treated by the controlling elite thinking power structures; with unconscionable, deleterious damage to the future of all of humanity, is always there in the rearview mirrors of NEW horizons.
Is this, once again, all the freedom that awaits us as our common destiny throughout the land?
The foreboding lies in the facts of past US history, at pivotal points for real change and progressive evolutionary growth.
It remains to be seen what actual political power one highly astute incoming mayor of the now largest US city will have over completely reshaping actual systemic US history, in a longer-term, more ‘forward’ seeing direction!
Word reference: Upton Sinclair
A bit pedantic as what is clearly meant is reversing the effects of history by undoing the policies of the past.
Nothing left here to be said by the likes of me!