Dr. Pop’s Favorites
Right to the City: dozens of organizations across the country, banded together to make cities more fair for everyone. Good place to find resources as they are being developed on the ground.
The Center for Urban Pedagogy: wonderful popular education resource in NY, working at the intersections of design, planning, and justice.
L.A. Freewaves: L.A.-based international video artists organization and network, led by the fabulous Anne Bray, produces amazing mind-opening events and programs.
FourStory: an eclectic and dense site with the tag-line: “supporting fair living conditions for everyone.” Connecting the worlds of development, politics, and hard-boiled fiction. Editor-in-chief is mystery writer Nathan Walpow.
PM Press: as the economy tanks, taking publishers down with it, this new press emerged nonetheless, offering an eclectic mix of politics, polemics, poetry, and fiction.
THINK AGAIN: activist artists S.A. Bachman and David Attyah challenge you to think in new ways through their powerful visual ideas.
Center for the Study of Political Graphics: founder Carol Wells collected 60,000 political posters from the last century, from around the world and curates them into timely exhibits. Count ‘em. 60,000.
Organizing Upgrade: Left organizers respond to the changing times. Lots of smart ideas, frames, and people.
Reach and Teach: a social justice store…and more. Check out their definition of social justice and “just lists.”