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 […]

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Tar 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 […]

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Killer Coal

July 22, 2011

Last night I went to see the film The Last Mountain, an incredibly powerful documentary that chronicles the struggle of […]

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Organic 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, […]

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Forgotten 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 […]

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Land Grabs

April 23, 2011

India has had 55 million people displaced by large dams built since Independence.  Medha Patkar is one of the founders […]

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The 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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Superfund Stories

April 4, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I attended my first public meeting at a Superfund site.  This site is a rather […]

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Nuclear 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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