Following yesterday's post announcing our soon-to-be-published special issue 'Anarchist Geographies', we're pleased to plug an excellent essay by Richard White (co-author, with Colin Williams, of...
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Towards a post-Occupy world
Precarity and housing politics in austerity London, UK
by Mara Ferreri, Queen Mary, University of London On 27 February 2012, London’s Occupy LSX was evicted, as was the School of Ideas. At the time of writing, only the protest camp at Finsbury Square...
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OWS Screenprinting: Markets, Commons, and Questions, Part I
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York This past week, the OWS Screenprinters Cooperative had a table set up at Hunter College’s Women’s Day Fair, screenprinting and selling tee-shirts,...
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Occupy Wall Street and 'Israelification'
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 ‘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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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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Cops and the 99%, Part II: Cops, scabs, and the 99%
by Jesse Goldstein, City University of New York As promised, here’s my follow-up, a somewhat more opinionated take on the relationship between cops and the 99%. Scabs are paid to break a strike,...
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This is about our humanity
by Punam Khosla, York University Reflecting on the ‘year of protest’ I am struck by the emphasis of many left commentators. A broad progressive consensus is that capitalist crisis and the...
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Attending to imbricated spaces
by David Meek, University of Georgia Since its first manifestation in September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has occupied communication spaces at various scales. Throughout the world,...
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Some thoughts on Occupy Wall Street and Palestine
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York Like many members of the 99%, I’ve recently been preoccupied with Occupy Wall Street and the movements towards occupation of public space that are...
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