It’s what we did on the 23rd, we did it to hold our own People’s Assembly, and extraordinary it was too! The crowd outside was…
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On Saturday I marched. Again. We keep marching. They’re still cutting student funds, and raising student fees after the lib dems promised to get rid…
Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov While it’s odd to think of Los Angeles as fitting in the theme of a Resistance City, there are hardcore struggles…
One of the most inspiring episodes of popular uprising to me was the Paris Commune, a brief but visionary period of communal governance of the…
A piece of my heart will always live in Glasgow. It is a city of incredible warmth and beauty and humour, one that welcomed me…
Last year I read The City and the City a sci-fi detective story by China Mieville, which takes place in two cities that are in…
This video-poem highlights key organizing efforts in Chicago including images from the cityscape as well as the front lines.
Check out Celine’s December post for more on the UK protests. There is a battle on in Britain at the moment, over the loss of…
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Check out Andrea’s December post for more on the UK protests. The UK is in the throes of the largest student movement this country has…
Our federal deficit is hovering somewhere around $14 trillion. A deficit, as anyone who has had to maintain a household budget will tell you, is…
What does hip-hop legend J-Live have in common with the billionaire ultra-conservative Koch brother? Not much. Expect perhaps that they both work hard and are…
A few months ago we invited all of you to participate in our first ever survey-contest about what you would like to see simply explained…
On Sunday, October 24, all of the Dr. Pop core blogger crew (except for Ryan, who is celebrating his post-nuptials) assembled at Hanbury Hall in…
You can arrive at the idea of spatial justice from two directions. The first is theoretical, looking at how many different people have defined space…
At the same time that protests have erupted all over France regarding national cutbacks of the country’s historic social safety net, there is a local…
David Simon, creator and executive producer (with former Baltimore detective Ed Burns) of The Wire, wrote of two competing myths in America in an introduction…
Last week, I visited the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo Los Angeles. Two tiny elderly women were standing next to a reconstructed portion…
When Rebecca “Commie Girl” Schoenkopf saw the blurb for the Dr. Pop July event in Chicago where we showed the documentary Bogotá Change, she immediately facebooked…
London is one of my favorite cities, for its architecture, art, culture, history, diversity, grit, humour…and I am entirely in love with how all of…