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Born and raised in Los Sures, Brooklyn, Debbie Medina worked for 30 years at the affordable housing organization Southside United HDFC - Los Sures before running for New York state Senate as a democratic socialist. Her bid for the Democratic nomination in the 18th district is a push against real estate interests: Her opponent, Martin Malavé Dilan, claims to be anti-gentrification, but has taken at least 60,000 in donations from real estate groups.

This piece first appeared at TomDispatch.

Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas town of Marshall where I grew up. It was a good place to be a cub reporter—small enough to navigate but big enough to keep me busy and learning something every day. I soon had a stroke of luck. Some of the paper’s old hands were on vacation or out sick and I was assigned to help cover what came to be known across the country as “the... Читать дальше...