{"id":4422,"date":"2009-02-02T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/02\/as-the-bottom-falls-out-of-the\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:47:38","slug":"as-the-bottom-falls-out-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/as-the-bottom-falls-out-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"As the bottom falls out of the economy, who do you think it crushes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a crowd that won&#8217;t scatter,&#8221; James Steele wrote in the pages of The Nation some seventy-five years ago. Early one morning in July 1933, the police had evicted John Sparanga and his family from a home on Cleveland&#8217;s east side. Sparanga had lost his job and fallen behind on mortgage payments. The bank had foreclosed. A grassroots &#8220;home defense&#8221; organization, which had managed to forestall the eviction on three occasions, put out the call, and 10,000 people &#8212; mainly working-class immigrants from Southern and Central Europe &#8212; soon gathered, withstanding wave after wave of police tear gas, clubbings and bullets, &#8220;vowing not to leave until John Sparanga [was] back in his home.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And some version of this is happening again as we speak. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanhabitat.org\/node\/2996\"> Read: Resistance to Housing Foreclosures Spreads Across the Land<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a crowd that won&#8217;t scatter,&#8221; James Steele wrote in the pages of The Nation some seventy-five years ago. Early one morning in July 1933, the police had evicted John Sparanga and his family from a home on Cleveland&#8217;s east side. Sparanga had lost his job and fallen behind on mortgage payments. The bank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/as-the-bottom-falls-out-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the bottom falls out of the economy, who do you think it crushes?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-19k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}