Uneven Developments
Oh Bondage – Up Yours!
July 24, 2011
The death of Amy Winehouse this weekend is a huge tragedy, an event that now seems clearly foretold in the […]
Read PostTar Sands Action
July 23, 2011
Here’s a link to the letter from Bill McKibben and a distinguished group of activists explaining the need for non-violent […]
Read PostKiller Coal
July 22, 2011
Last night I went to see the film The Last Mountain, an incredibly powerful documentary that chronicles the struggle of […]
Read PostOrganic Crisis
June 24, 2011
The news today carried tidings of another huge setback for working people in the U.S. The legislature in New Jersey, […]
Read PostForgotten Spaces, Invisible Lives
May 16, 2011
Yesterday I saw Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s powerful film The Forgotten Space. The idea behind the film is that […]
Read PostLand Grabs
April 23, 2011
India has had 55 million people displaced by large dams built since Independence. Medha Patkar is one of the founders […]
Read PostThe Rights of Mother Nature
April 21, 2011
This is a live blog of a panel convened by the Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics in […]
Read PostThe Visual Economy of Urban Empire
April 10, 2011
A squad of twelve Marines edges into the home of an Afghani villager named Omar, whom they have learned is […]
Read PostSuperfund Stories
April 4, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I attended my first public meeting at a Superfund site. This site is a rather […]
Read PostNuclear Power/Knowledge
March 23, 2011
The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant drags on, with even more worrying news emerging today of radioactive […]
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