Feb 22
18 entries
Category: Economy
As Silicon Valley celebrates the expansion of the Facebook campus, East Palo Alto residents, like organizer Anna Turner pictured here, are voicing concerns of displacement.
As I sit in my golf cart unwavering, focused on “The Art of
War” by Sun Tzu, I am snapped back into reality. The reality of Palo Alto,
California. The median household income in Palo Alto is $118,989. Mean housing
prices were $922,616. BMWs and Audi’s roll ...
As participants of the Occupy movement protested in front of Wells Fargo, with the back drop of Christmas in the Park, De-Bug asked protesters what their resolutions were for the Occupy movement in 2012.
Pastor Scott Wagers from Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM) in San Jose writes an open letter to CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan calling out the injustices and who is paying the price in banking industry and bail outs.
One shopper's account of a Black Friday store hopping adventure.
Protest Wall Street -- but don't forget about that tech bastion of inequality to the south: the high-tech firms of Silicon Valley.
The Reyes sisters were among many Hyatt employees whose faces were pasted atop bikini-clad cartoon images on the company’s bulletin board. Humiliated, Martha Reyes tore down the photographs of her and her sister. Both sisters were later fired by the hotel.
A narrated photo essay on the San Jose libraries and community centers that are closed or have dramatically cut services due to budget cuts.
Fernando J Pérez produced this video for the Poverty Forum held on November 3rd at the Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose, CA. He interviewed four young Bill Wilson Drop-In clients about their experiences trying to make it the Silicon Valley.
A video collaboration between a graphic designer and an local beat maker tackling poverty in this depiction of poverty.
