by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York For my final post in this batch on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine, I’m going to draw heavily on an exchange I had recently with my friends Jimmy...
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Occupy Wall Street and 'Israelification'
The message
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Not too long ago, a forwarded message arrived in my inbox. Simply titled ‘2012’, it was addressed to dozens of other people, and I could see...
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Cash crops in the wildlands: Different worlds are at stake
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol “No-one is forced . This is an absolute lie. The people around Gambella are inhabiting the place in a very scattered manner” Ethiopian government (quoted...
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Return of the living debt
by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota In the turbulent aftermath of the financial crisis, one recent development is particularly startling: the resurrection, without warning and from an unknown...
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Occupy Wall Street and ‘Occupation’
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York One of the first critiques of OWS from the left has come from Indigenous activists, Palestine solidarity workers, and others questioning the use of the...
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Radical geographies of the sea?
by Andy Davies, University of Liverpool In the aftermath of the cruise liner Costa Concordia capsizing off the coast of Italy, I began to think about how the sea relates to what we do in geography....
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The winter of Occupy Wall Street?
by David Meek, University of Georgia The Occupy Wall Street movement has focused a magnifying lens on the complex relationships between space and resistance. As we pay attention to the evolution of...
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Yo: are we (still) racist?
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley When I teach classes about race and geography, I often use the civil rights movement to start a conversation about the ways in which racial politics and spatial...
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Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street and anti-Zionism
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York From the beginning of OWS, the issue of Palestine has been contentious, and commentators and occupiers have excluded it preemptively and as it emerged....
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Carbon debt and climate justice: Moving on from Durban
by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota Carbon prices fell to record lows on 5 January, with declines driven by the Eurozone debt crisis and an over-allocation of credits in Europe’s Emissions...
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