by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol In late September 2011, news of another ‘land grabbing’ fiasco briefly hit the international headlines (Al Jazeera 2011; Lang 2011; Vidal 2011a; 2011b)...
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New enclosures of the carbon market, Part I: Sub-Saharan ‘land-grabs’ as accumulation by dispossession
Cops and the 99%, Part I: Who do you serve? Who do you protect?
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York Last night I went to a meeting at the Occupied Office, which is on the 12th floor of a union owned building in the financial district. At the door,...
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Police, protest, and spaces of power
by Rachel Brahinsky, University of California Berkeley In this season of global occupations, the geographies of police violence have been on my mind. As we begin to unveil this new blog, I plan on...
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Building a new labor movement in the shell of the old…: The IWW campaigns to organize fast food workers
by Nathan Clough, University of Minnesota Duluth “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day's wage for a fair day's work’,...
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