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Category: Voices from the Streets

  • Orwell's Economy

    The Price of Inequality, by Joseph E. Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Company). While reading The Price of Inequality, one seems confronted by a society that was merely imaginative in Jack London’s 1908 dystopian novel The Iron Heel. Rampant poverty, political and economic imbalance, entrenched class divisions, and middle class evaporation, all engendered by an oligarchic…

  • A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act (Part Five-Conclusion)

    Start at the beginning with A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act Part I (Everything is about to go crazy. The cops screwed up on the charges and Dean’s play for the cops with Frost Pharmacy is no good and they want him to do it again. The four are all drunk and the run into Mickey,…

  • America's Rapper: Shea Rose

    “Where did all the female hip hop artists go? We need to find the next generation and make sure their voices are heard.” –Queen Latifah Although the charts are inundated with a plethora of ubiquitous pop artists like Beyonce, Rhianna and Lady Gaga, one tend to wonder…whatever happened to female hip hop acts like Queen…

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Movie Review

    Movie directed by Benh Zeitlin In one hour and 31 minutes, this movie transported me to a world that was poetry; alive, tender and disturbing at the same time. Quvenzhane Wallis is Hushpuppy, an 8 year old girl who has grown up in the “Bathtub,” an isolated part of the Mississippi Delta with her father,…

  • A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act (Part Four)

    Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News Start at the beginning with A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act Part I (A lot has happened in our story. Everyone has been arrested on a set-up. Dean set up his pharmacist for the police, and now they’ve let Dean go. He went back to the pharmacy, bought 100 morphine…

  • A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act (Part Three)

    Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News Start at the beginning with A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act Part I (Dean, his wife Brenda, their friends Billie & Chrissie are all in the holding pens in Orange, New Jersey. The police are trying to get Dean to turn over his connection, offering freedom with lesser charges for…

  • Editorial: Get Smart On Crime

    “Tough on crime” talk might sounds good to legislators who like surefire-sounding answers that sell well to a crime-weary public. Three strikes and you’re out. Lock ‘em up and throw away the key. Build more jails. But even some of the nation’s more conservative states are learning that being “smart on crime” means more than…

  • A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act (Part Two)

    Mark D. Goldfinger Spare Change News Read A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act Part I (Dean, Brenda, Billie & Chrissie have just been set up by Mickey & Viola, who they thought were drug buying friends. Detectives Irish & D’azeo, two of Orange, New Jersey’s most corrupt dicks busted Mickey & Viola and had them call…

  • A Controlled Dangerous Substance Act (Part One)

    Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News There was Dean Levy and he was counting the Quaaludes and he kept losing the count at around fifty or sixty. It was beginning to make him mad and his wife Brenda came over to help and dropped the coffee on his lap and he jumped up. “Come on.…

  • Borderland: The Breeder (Conclusion)

    Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News (In the last episode, Patricia, a captive of Joseph, was being led into the pleasure room of the Kaliedoscope Eye Bar by Garter, an Elvish Rat breeder, who wishes to trade two Elvish Rats for the young dark girl.) http://sparechangenews.net/news/borderlands-breeder-part-one They had entered the pleasure room, and Garter uncovered…