{"id":13431,"date":"2015-11-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431///wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//article/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//new-economy-after-ferguson-uprising-should-st-louis-spend-1-billion-on-a-new-football-stadium-20151110/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//"},"modified":"2019-11-26T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T09:20:14","slug":"after-ferguson-uprising-should-st-louis-spend-1-billion-on-a-new-football-stadium","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431///wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//economy/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//2015/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//11/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//10/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431//after-ferguson-uprising-should-st-louis-spend-1-billion-on-a-new-football-stadium","title":{"rendered":"After Ferguson Uprising, Should St. Louis Spend $1 Billion on a New Football Stadium?"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n

This article is part of New Economy Week, a collaboration between 精东影业 Magazine and the New Economy Coalition that brings you the ideas and people helping build an inclusive economy—in their own words./wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n


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Last August, the St. Louis area became a hotbed for racial justice organizing when unarmed teenager Mike Brown was gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson. The killing sparked a renewed national debate about the role of police and a wide-reaching movement for black life./wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n

Clearly, Ferguson has had an impact in the world./wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n

When Ferguson erupted, longtime anti-corporate activists with Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) were first responders, supporting protestors—largely black Ferguson youth—with training and infrastructural support on the ground. Since then, MORE’s work has centered on channeling the frenetic energy of last summer into long-term community power, unveiling connections between the “St. Louis 1%” and the city’s deep-seated racial and economic inequality. To hear more about this work, I spoke with MORE Solidarity Economy Organizer Julia Ho about what’s happened in St. Louis this last year, the relationship between direct action and institution-building, and what that all has to do with the St. Louis Rams./wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n

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Kate Aronoff: More than a year out from Mike Brown’s murder, what kind of organizing is happening in Ferguson and St. Louis?/wp-json/wp/v2/article/13431/n

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