| From the Villa ge of Brook ly n |
OUR TIME PRESS THE L OCAL PAPER WITH THE G LOBAL VIEW
| VOL. 21 NO. 47
Since 1996
November 23 – 29, 2017 |
OUR TIME AT HOME Brooklyn and Beyond
Thanksgiving Special Issue Stolen Land, Stolen Labor Revisited
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esting-place: New York City’s first municipal workers, Colonial-era enslaved Africans, representing 20 % of the population, labored unpaid all their lives. The remains of 419 of the estimated 20,000 African men, women and children – unearthed during a 1991 excavation for a Federal government building -- were given a final resting-place at the African Burial Ground site in Lower Manhattan, October 4, 2003. This Thanksgiving, we remember them through the prism of modern-day movements to displace, replace and build walls. For more information: African Burial Ground National Monument, Federal Hall National Memorial, (212) 637-2019 (Photo: Barry L. Mason)
For nearly 400 years, enslaved Africans shaped the growth and development of much of North American, South American and the Caribbean. In an update of the Our Time Press 1997 article, “Stolen Land, Stolen Labor: The Case for Reparations”, we revisit the development of the foundations of the American economy and who owes what to whom. Page 7
INSIDE: From the Archives: Gentrification Pages 2 and 10, Weeksville Page 6, Bush Attacks DACA & TPS, threatening thousands with deportation Page 2 One Brooklyn Health Consortium Discusses Outreach to Men Page 3