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Steve McClure

Stephen C. (Steve) McClure 64 in 2020, is a US research associate working at Wuhan University's Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing.

He was a windowdresser, silverplater, and tinker as well as an activist in the global justice movement in Washington DC. [1]

Stephen C. McClure was formerly a visual merchandiser working for May Company and latter Federated Department stores in the Washington DC area. Technological change and consolidation of retail chains de-skilled visual merchandizing and eliminated careers in that field. After twenty years, he returned to higher education to learn cartography, Geographic Information Systems, and human geography. While studying at George Mason University, Stephen met many Chinese students and visiting professors and discovered he had a knack for editing technical and scientific papers, and in 2010 was invited to work at an international geospatial laboratory based at a University in central China.[2]

In 2017 he is a PhD student in the Geography and GeoInformation Science Department at George Mason University. MA in sociology, GMU 2007.

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Specialties: ArcGIS desktop applications,Social networks, critical theory and urbanism. I am particularly interested in action research driven by the needs of community based organizations whose goal is increasing civic participation.[3]

He is associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization[4].

Comrade in Wuhan

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In May 2020 Liberation Road's Road Signs described Steve McClure as a "comrade" and :

Steve from Wuhan is an American pinko commie who had the good fortune to live and work in Wuhan for the better part of the last decade. The PRC is not what he imagined it to be. He spent most of his early years there dealing with cognitive dissonance between his received wisdom about China and his everyday reality. Similarly, daily contact with the structures of the Communist Party and their way of analyzing and acting in the world forced him to reconsider Marxism, and what organization means.[5]

In Steve McClure's own words:

I have been working at Wuhan University for nine years, helping students, faculty, and staff polish academic papers on subjects ranging from computer science to electrical engineering, helping authors through the publication process. Before that, I was at George Mason University in the United States; many of my associates were from Wuhan. A visiting professor invited me to work in Wuhan for a year, and after that, I decided to stay longer.[6]
The US government airlifted a group of Americans out of the city. I decided to stay. I have a job here. I have friends here. It is a commitment and a contract. This thing will pass. I really like the street I live on. I like the food. I like hot and dry noodles. I like the Wuchang fish. I like the atmosphere in Wuhan, and people are down to earth. I walk down the streets and go to shops. When you live somewhere awhile, you become part of the community; it does not matter if you are a foreigner or not. I will continue to stay in isolation until the outbreak is over, and I will go back to work.[7]

FRSO

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Steve McClure supports Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

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Progressive Student Network founding conference attendees - Kent State, 1980, included Steve McClure - AU, Revolutionary Student Brigade, Student Coalition Against Nukes Nationwide, WA Coalition against Registration and the Draft, Reston, Virginia.

Freedom Road magazine/Genoa protests

Steve McClure contributed an article to Freedom Road Socialist Organization's Freedom Road magazine Number 2, Winter 2002 "Genoa:global justice and the end of social peace".

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On July 19-21 Genoa Italy experieced the largest demonstrations against corporatization and neo liberalization to date in the global North. That weekend the "G-8," a grouping of the seven richest countries in the world plus Russia, was meeting in town. Most of the participants in the demonstrations were Italian, with strong contingents from Spain and Greece. People came from as far away as Siberia, and there were significant numbers from Poland, the Balkans, and other eastern European countries as well. eastern European countries as well.
It was for me a powerfirl but disturbing time. Margaret Thatcher announced back in the 1980s that "There Is No Alternative" to free-market policies and privatization, but since Seattle, opposition to neoliberalism has shaken even the core industrialized countries...
I came to Genoa with a set of expectations based on my experiences over the Iast year or so at direct actions in Washington DC (IMF/World Bank), Washington DC (inauguration), Cincinnati (police killing), Quebec (FTAA), and Philadelphia (Republican Convention)...
The entire train I came with was full of members of Tute Bianche and Giovani Communisti prepared with gas masks, helmets and other protective gear, who, upon disembarking, immediately proceeded to form up into cordons in order to join the fight along Via Tolemaide. Other groups included black blocs as well as many people with no organizational affiliation...
The sheer scale of the Genoa demonstrations attests to the growing importance of this movement and to the difticulties the state will hopefully have in isolating it. Working to build unity between different popular forces in an increasingly polarized environment is a difficult task, but made easier after the events in Genoa. Avanti PoPolo!

Action research, mapping and civic engagement in Virginia

Action research, mapping and civic engagement in Virginia. Published on August 25 2011 by dcsteveinwuhan.[8]

I have been recently working with Virginia New Majority to make a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia State house districts. It is collaborative, involving emails, exchanges of data back and forth, and skype calls. The core data are lists of individual households by pan-ethnic census categories, geocode them. andI use a point density method to aggregate those households visually, and also aggregate the counts of households by precinct and displsy those numbers atop the cluster map. The results are subjective but do suggest a certain way of viewing and thinking about the ways that actual communities conform or diverge from the discrete territorial units which define an electorial terrain in a democracy.
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What makes these maps meaningful is not the visualization or techniques, but rather the conversation and common understandings of space, place and landscape that inform the process of making them. It is action research, subjective, goal directed, iterative, and collaborative.Cartography inherently is action research, maps are representations of simultaneity, wayfinding tools without a destination which exist in relation to thier useage.

"Actionable intelligence"

Steve McClure wrote on his blog Steve: I will be in Wuhan China for about a year. I set this up as a place to post news about me since I arrived in China, since writing emails gets time-consuming and I forget who I wrote what to, circa 2012, an article entitled Actionable Intelligence and Prince William County.[9]

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In the general elections of 2008 Virginia voted democratic for the first time since 1964 with Obama carrying the state. Demographic shifts and increased voter participation rather than a shift in political allegiances account for this outcome. This demographic shift was an artifact of the dynamics of capital accumulation, uneven development and class struggle in a period of neoliberalization, prefiguring zoning and land use patterns.
Focusing on Prince William County, Virginia, I applied spatial interpolation techniques in a GIS to translate the 2008 election returns from the geography of precincts to year 2000 zoning classification areas for further quantitative analysis. The goal was to produce actionable intelligence for working class organizations building popular power at the base. The results suggest that the economic logic of the micro-politics of land use and zoning prefigure political change at larger scales of aggregation.

This project consisted of two parts: an analysis of the 2008 election returns for Prince William County Virginia and a spatial representation of voting records for the 111th congress using Geospatial methods to analyze and present the returns cartographically. The logic of land use and zoning are independent from the logic of the hierarchy of census enumeration units and political precincts, masking the impact of class and power relationships at the level of a single county.
Land use decisions determine the density and type of housing and pattern of economic development in a given area, in turn shaping the characteristics of the population and electorate. Actions at this lowest level jump upward to the national scale in the process of redistricting where the boundaries for congressional districts are defined at the state level. I use several geospatial methods: areal interpolation to transfer values from one set of units to another and point pattern analysis to measure clustering of congress people. By making the geography of election outcomes transparent as attributes of land use and housing density polygons, housing density itself becomes an independent variable to predict voting behaviors.
At the national scale, congressional voting records are converted to a set of x, y coordinates and scrutinized using hierarchical clustering, classified using natural breaks and grouped as binary categories to generate strategic insights. A selection of only Virginia Congress members are visualized, revealing the strategic importance of redistricting and civic engagement projects in light of demographic shifts linked to zoning and land use decisions on the micro-scale of local politics. The results are presented as maps and diagrams which might illuminate challenges and opportunities for organizations engaging with electoral efforts.

Part I Prince William County

Many find the brave new globalized world to be threatening and alien to their imaginary of place and nation, but are unwilling to question its underlying assumptions or causes, such as neoliberal global restructuring. One could speak of a politics of fear directed toward a dehumanized Other. In Prince William County (PWC; see Figure 1), this fear drove implementation of draconian anti-immigrant legislation in 2006, prefiguring similar initiatives proposed at municipal, county and state levels nationwide such as the recent legislation enacted by the State of Arizona. The specific dynamics seen in Prince William County might be playing out across the nation as the Westphalian certainties of the nation state as a discrete entity are superseded by a more complex set of spatial relationships. New political, social and economic spaces such as global trade networks and free trade zones are challenging the nation state as exclusive site of sovereignty and citizenship at the global scale, while at the same time privileging cities and urban regions in an emerging neoliberal order (Harvey 2005). A nativist reaction to these trends therefore confronts a social landscape shaped by local and global trends – zoning and land use patterns, global economic restructuring and neoliberalization—which might not be reversible by merely sealing borders or enacting punitive legislation.

The economic logic of the micro-politics of land use and zoning prefigure political change at higher levels of aggregation. A quantitative analysis of the 2008 election results and zoning patterns in PWC demonstrates what activists intuitively grasp: that working class people of color are found in high density housing. But, that high density housing is also home to a multi-national mix.

A key dimension of the shift from the embedded liberalism of fordist production to the neoliberal regime of free market liberalism and global production chains was privileging of the new economy of high technology, specialized services and finance (Dicken 2003, Hackworth 2007, Harvey 2005, Smith 1982, Sassen 2000), itself dependent on massive state intervention based on defense spending and Pentagon contacts (Markusen et al. 1991; Beauregard, 2006). Northern Virginia is a prototypical example (Dennis 2009).
Since the onset of neoliberal restructuring, tendencies towards dispersal have accelerated across the Washington Metropolitan area. Employment centers like those in Prince William County (PWC) are led by the high technology and producer services and are clustered. The regional is networked, small clusters of service producers are linked together with the central business district in Washington being but one area of concentration.
Changes over the last half century from exclusionary residential zoning, de jure segregation, and since 1965, relatively relaxed immigration laws have contributed to the emergence of hetero-local settlement patterns and ethnoburbs across the nation. As well as being magnets for highly educated workforces of the information society, developing urbanized cores like those found in such places as PWC in Northern Virginia are also attracting low skill workers in a global labor market. The Washington area and in particular Northern Virginia is a “New Immigrant Gateway”( Price, Cheung, Friedman Singer 2005) giving rise to contentious politics and conflicting images of what the region is and what it will become.
GIS has been the subject of a heated debate concerning the embedded ontologies, epistemologies and politics of techno-science (Pickles 1997). Critics see the technology as inherently an exemplar of instrumental rather than critical reason. I however assert that the techniques and tools of quantitative analysis and spatial analysis can be framed and deployed from a critical perspective. Here, GIS is a tool used to expose the hidden geography of power through the use of interpolation to extract values from one geography and transferring those values to another. The geographies of election precincts and zoning are independent of each other and are not directly comparable. A solution to this problem can be found in interpolation, converting election returns into a surface (figure 2) and extracting values onto the zoning features (fig4) to produce a table for further analysis. Zoning classifications are at the nominal level of measurement[1] while election outcomes can be made dichotomous, reducing the data to a 2 by 2 table.
Interpolation relies on the theory that things closer together are more similar than things farther away a regularity often referred to as Tobler`s “first law of geography” (Tobler 2004), a regularity without which no geography would be possible. The centroids for zoning area polygons were used as sampling points for the values of the interpolated surface (figure 3) and added onto the attribute table for the zoning feature layer for further analysis. This interpolation technique could be used to extract values from other incompatible areal units for multivariate analysis.
Privatization has led to the displacement of federal employment and stable government workforces by precarious contract work at both the highly skilled and unskilled levels(Dennis 2009), particularly with regards to military and defense related industries, comprising a social and political mass beyond narrow definitions of class race and gender, as inhabitants with a “right to the city”, “The right to the city stresses the need to restructure the power relations that underlie the production of urban space, fundamentally shifting control away from capital and the state and toward urban inhabitants”. (Purcell 2002:101) That mass is made up of precarious workers, both high-pay high tech and low pay-low tech service workers that come together as urban inhabitants with distinctively urban interests as suggested by the 2 by 2 contingency table for high and low density zoning areas and Obama support in Prince William County (Table1). There were only two variables: housing density and Obama margins (I subtracted percentages for McCain from percentages for Obama and converted the difference to absolute values by winner). Table 1, shows χ2 (1df, N=873) = 100.45, p<.001 meaning that the 2008 election results were strongly correlated to zoning density. High density residential concentration alone without considering income, race or gender was related to high Obama turnouts. These areas might contain expensive or affordable housing the common denominator for all of these areas is urbanization. In this election, it was this urban subject that was most responsible for the Democratic victory.

Neoliberal global restructuring in addition is creating new forms of belongings and “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality” (Ong 2006:3).The Nativist and the Tea Party movements might be trying to rebuild the Reagan coalition around right wing neo-populist ideology: taxpayer/homeowner/ethnic nationalism (read white) to counter a left-leaning multi-national urban mass that put Obama in the White House. This urban mass, an emerging multi-national multicultural new majority is constitutive of neoliberal urban restructuring when considered in relation to other changes. Regardless of the current political climate or individual election outcomes these changes indeed might be resistant to efforts designed to retrench or roll back reforms.

The 111th Congress

At a level and a venue much removed from Prince William County, voting records of the US House of Representatives reveal patterns similar to those apparent at the more intimate level of one urbanizing county. Figures 5 and 6 show the political composition of the 111th congress as ranked by the "That’s My Congress" website: http://thatsmycongress.com/house/ . On these figures the two axes show regressive (y) and progressive(x) voting records. These scores are independent from each other,values for three indexes of core principles including freedom, knowledge, and an economy of opportunity, peace and environmental security supported or opposed were created based on votes on specific bills and concerted to percentage scores for each congress person. Scores were normalized for each congress person by converting them to Z scores so that the center of the x and y axes would be the exact political center based on all the scores both regressive and progressive. My interpretation of this diagram (figure 5) is counter-intuitive to the perception of a disorganized and contentious democratic caucus and a focused and united GOP. I found diverse right with a focused and tight left of center block dominated by a smaller bloc of center-right democrats trying to align with the more moderate republicans against the left.
Congress was polarized as illustrated by the values in each of the four quadrants (Figure 5). The "left" dominates congress with 202 members, while the "right" has just 179 members. Two maps are shown here, one for the entire congress (Figure 5); one for just the VA delegation (Figure 6). The VA map has a shadow grid showing the relative position of other members of congress. It is a Triangular Irregular Network (TIN) tracing out the positions of the state delegation against congress as a whole. A TIN is a particular triangulation where lines connecting points do not cross and the angles of the triangles formed by those lines are less or equal to 90 degrees(O`Sullivan,Unwin 2002:224).The lengths of lines and connectivity between the locations of points representing congress people could be used as proxy measures to quantify ideological relationships between members and the relative distances between them.
Voting patterns and party do not align exactly; congress is split by party with 255 democrats and 178 republicans with 12 members whose voting records are not predictable by party affiliation; split evenly between Democrats and Republicans as shown by a discriminant analysis. Discriminant analysis is a statistical method used to “predict group membership from a group of predictors” (Tabachnick, Fidell 2001: 456). Discriminant analysis is similar to ANOVA but in effect turns the variables around, using the group membership as the dependent variable and the predictors, in this case progressive and regressive voting records as the independent variables. Here the objective is to test the reliability of combining progressive or regressive voting patterns to predict party affiliation reliably. A discriminant analysis showed however that party affiliation and voting patterns do align 97% of the time; the exceptions are listed, congress persons who vote independently. These twelve congress people and the seats they occupy might represent what might be called the bipartisan block in a congress where the moderate right as suggested by the upper right quadrant (figure 5) only contains one member Rep. Mark S. Kirk (R-IL 10). The center or the lower left quadrant has 51 members, the controlling block of the 111th congress.
Congress persons that appear below the X axis vote consistently against regressive legislation, while those to the right of the y axis vote consistently for progressive bills. The outliers are Rep Maurice Hinchey (D-NY 22) on the left and Rep Trent Hanks (R-AZ 2) on the right.
The left, the core of congress, is clustered with 154 congress persons consistently voting in similar ways, they are in the lower right quadrant much more progressive than the center (lower left quadrant) where the speaker of the house lies. The house members are color coded by progressive scores. The class intervals for each of the five color bands are based on natural breaks, meaning that upper and lower values for each band are determined by natural groupings not by arbitrary values. The most conservative group is red, shading to dark blue for the most progressive. The color bands are independent of party. The right is less unified than the left, even if it contains the largest number of house members (165) The trend diagram illustrates that the spread of right wing congress persons is wider than the left, something also evident in the larger diagram (Figure 5) but where it is not so clear because many house members have exactly the same scores on the x and y axes. This suggests that a vigorous progressive partisanship rather than a search for an elusive center might be an effective political strategy (Krugman) when centrists of the right and left (lower left and upper right quadrants) only account for 52 house members.
The center and center right is the next largest grouping (orange) with 95 members. The last three classes while individually small, never the less contain 173 members, the far left (dark blue) being the smallest sub-group, with only 19 members.

The insert cartogram shows congressional districts exaggerated to reflect the size of their population and colored according to the progressive score classes. Districts with progressive representatives tend to be located in the urban NE and on the west coast with outliers in the south and mid west. Center and center right members are more likely to come from suburban and rural areas containing urban clusters. Right wing congressional districts are large and rural in many cases.
The bottom line is that while polarized, right wing house members are more dispersed in their voting behavior than the left. The center is smaller than either the right or left but holds the balance of power even though the core of congress (154 house members closely allied in voting patterns) is left.

Figure 6 shows just the Virginia delegation. The Virginia delegation is polarized with an even sharper division between left and right than the larger body. The insert cartogram shows districts sized according to population, visually it appears that Virginia might be more progressive than its popular image seems to propose.

By contesting neoliberalization at multiple scales, the limitations of any particular scale of engagement could be mitigated. Praxis, like neoliberalism is path dependent. It must be specific to a particular conjuncture so action will cut through scales, facilitated by thick organic trans-local networks operating at multiple scales across a complex geo-political and economic landscape. By creating narratives of resistance, connecting here and there in a project to expand and reclaim the commons, actions taken at the lowest levels at a key node in the circuits of power might resonate at higher levels.
While elections can be won or lost, it is doubtful that the transitions set in motion by neoliberal restructuring can be undone. The United State will become a majority minority nation—a nation where euro-Americans are but one minority among minorities—regardless of strict border control or draconian anti-immigrant measures enacted at the local level. In this context, the legitimacy of the state and state institutions depends on a civic rather than ethnic construction of national identity and a restoration of a welfare state consistent with national democratic pretensions.
In a rush toward post modernism and a rejection of all things positivist, the methods of spatial analysis have been rejected. Spatial analysis however can be detached from its positivist moorings since many geostatistical procedures are inherently subjective and dependent on the ontological and epistemological understandings of the operator. The digital world is a data rich environment, much of which includes spatial references. A GIS allows diverse data sets to be visualized and analyzed making complex and diverse information comprehensible. Geospatial technologies can assist in strategic planning process and can be used to create roadmaps to change without predetermining a destination. As actionable intelligence the view from above complements local.
Knowledge. In a GIS, secondary data is twisted and tweaked to reveal and visualize patterns consistent with critical epistemologies and ontological perspectives. Maps charts and graphs as inter-textual representations can be palimpsests and over written. Maps are interactive, the map user defines the route and the meaning of spatial relationships expressed cartographically, generating new insights and new theory to guide political engagements.

Geography

In 2005 Sergei Andronikov, director of George Mason University’s Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, says, “The technology is blossoming at Mason. Geographers can be plugged into almost any kind of project.”

When people hear the word ‘geography,’ they think of maps,” says Andronikov. “But GIS is so much more than that.”

The example he frequently uses is a business one. Say you are the head of a bank and looking to relocate one of your regional offices. Naturally, you want the office to be where the customers are, and you also probably want to consider major traffic routes, among other concerns.

“This is geography, “says Andronikov. “We are all part of the world and are trying to navigate our way around it.”

Geography student John Warden collaborated with sociology graduate student Steve McClure on the “Northern Virginia Gentrification Study.” For their client, the Tenant Workers Support Committee, Warden and McClure plotted lower-income, high-rental housing areas to get a picture of where there was affordable housing in Northern Virginia.[10]

China

Steve McClure became a consultant with Wuda Geo in Wuhan China, in 2012.[11]

According to the Wuhan University website;

Speaking of China, Steve never attempted to conceal his genuine affection. “The moment I got out of the airport, I could sense the hospitality of Chinese people. Lots of people would come and talk to me, offering their help. I have never received more welcome anywhere else.” Having Stayed in Wuhan for several years, he has claimed this city as his second hometown. “It’s nice here. Many of the people I know from Washington DC are here. People go back and forth. The United States and China are connected.”

As an English consultant of LIESMARS (Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping Remote Sensing) in Wuhan University, for many graduate students who are suffering from anxiety and desperation stemming from the arduous struggle for their master degrees or PhDs, Steve is a lifesaver. Whether it is to get their papers published in academic journals or simply to pluck up their courage in international conferences, he teaches them everything.
Apart from editing papers for students, Steve is also in charge of an English Corner, which provides a free space for students to practice and demonstrate their talents in English...As an expert in GIS himself, Steve is surprisingly modest. “Everyone should be humble,” he said, nodding and smiling. Dedicating himself to the success of students, Steve has earned a stellar reputation, as well as a seat in the front row with some of the most renowned professors in the field.[12]

Stephen C. McClure, was in 2017, a Research Associate, The State Key Laboratory for Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University, The People's Republic of China. [13]

Flipping the South

"The Importance of the Fight for the South--and Why It Can and Must be Won", By Bob Wing and Stephen C. McClure appeared in Organizing Upgrade Monday, 04 September 2017.[14]

This essay was prepared in March 2015, prior to the 2016 election season that eventually resulted in Donald Trump's victory. However, the far rightwing's capture of the presidency makes this essay's main arguments even more important. The far right, racism, militarism, inequality, and poverty are all centered in the South. The majority of African Americans, the main protagonist of progressive politics in this country, live in the South. And the South has more electoral votes, battleground state votes, population, and congresspersons than any other region. The South is changing rapidly, giving rise to more progressive demographic groups--especially Black and Latino migrations, LGBTQs and urbanites--and a growing Democratic vote. These trends can only be maximized if the importance of the South is understood as a strategic necessity and the chance to win state by state, is acknowledged and acted upon. Hard as the fight is and will be, downplaying the Southern struggle is a losing political strategy and forfeits the moral high ground on the biggest issues facing the country...
Electoral action to win political power in the South is a strategic, not an optional, component of any strategy to defeat the right. As regards to elections and political power, we argue:
(1) A critical mass of Southern states can and must be won if we are to block or defeat the right in presidential elections. Three of the five or so critical battleground states are in the South: Florida, Virginia and North Carolina. Southern blue and battleground states plus Washington D.C. hold 38 percent of the electoral votes needed to win.
(2) Winning an anti-rightwing congressional majority depends on winning in the South, as the South has a bigger congressional delegation than any other region and Southern congresspersons also hold key leadership posts within the Republican Party's congressional hierarchies.
(3) There are tremendous opportunities to build progressive political power and governance at the local level in the South as 105 counties have a Black majority. (Only one county outside of the South has a Black majority.)
All of these points will sharpen in the coming decades, as the South is projected to continue to experience greater population gains as compared to the rest of the country. That population gain is rooted in the ongoing transformation of the Southern economy which is driven by changes in the global economy. Well aware of this, the far right has launched a withering campaign of voter suppression, racist gerrymandering and straight anti-democratic legislative maneuvers to combat it. The South is becoming ever more important economically and politically, not less.
While some might dismiss the South, focusing strategically on the Northeast and Pacific Coast as central to a progressive program and the Midwest as the main political battleground, the South's dynamic growth, historical legacy of Black struggle and powerful political weight make it a critical battlefield.
The nuance is that the South cannot be won as a bloc, but only state by state and county by county. In fact, winning the South in large part means understanding that it is not a monolithic entity and winning it piece by piece: i.e. politically deconstructing the South.

Remembering IAMUS

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Juliet Ucelli October 9, 2017 ·

[When Mayor de Blasio appointed a commission to review monuments on city-owned land, the biggest outcry predictably came from some Italian Americans defending the Columbus monument, and claiming that the Mayor must hate his Italian heritage. 25 years ago, countering the 500th anniversary celebrations of Columbus’s invasion and occupation, a few of us founded Italian Americans for a Multicultural U.S. (IAMUS), rejecting Columbus as a hero and as a representative of our Italian-ness. If you think that a similar statement by Italian Americans on the monument issue today would be useful--then respond in comments or message me.

Here’s an outreach flyer to Italian Americans about Columbus that we wrote in the 90s.]

Shared on FB with Eric Odell, Vinny Villano, Vinny Tirelli, Marilyn Vasta, Debra Pucci, Marla Ucelli, Ajamu Dillahunt, Tom De Luca, Michelle O'Brien, Theresa Horvath, Anthony DiMieri, Anthony Charles, Loretta Reinersmann, Bill Gallegos, Bill Fletcher, Jr. Leonard Polletta, Michael Leonardi, Steve McClure, Susan Cangiano, Danny LaMantia, Jeanne Dagna, Anna Maria Avato, Bryan Proffitt, Eric Canepa, Michelle Foy, Fritzel VS, Matt Matthew, Capri Francy Caprino, Thomas Wayne Walker.[15]

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