It’s not that Joe Sacco is the first comics artist, a sequentialist if you’ll allow, to produce stories different from the bread and butter of…
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“The structures of society need to be transformed, but the hidden motivations and assumptions on which the structures rest need to be transformed as well.”…
On June 20th the Dalai Lama came to the London School of Economics to give a talk titled ‘Resisting Intolerance: an ethical and global challenge‘….
What makes people powerful? Is it the level of resources they wield? The amount of knowledge they possess? Or, perhaps, is it their ability to...
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Gene Sharp’s slim volume, From Dictatorship to Democracy, outlines why and how non-violent struggle is the warfare of the 21st century, and builds a template for…
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By: Manning Marable Hardcover: 608 pages Published: April 1, 2011 ISBN: 0670022209 One of the most highly anticipated books of…
I have no set idea of what Utopia looks like and I blame my youth on this. In fact, I can point to the day…
The year is 1984 and I am on a bus riding through the green pastoral landscape of Northern Spain’s Basque country with about 30 other…
Almost no one writes about what happens after the victory, the hard work and daily struggle after the barricades, the factory occupations, the mass mobilizations….
Guest blogger, Susan D. Anderson, is the author of Nostalgia for a Trumpet: Poems of Memory and History, and has written, taught and lectured widely…
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…
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…
A few weeks ago, Aiyana Stanley Jones was killed by the Detroit police, who raided her home while she was sleeping. The incident passed the…
This is our city! People are resisting the assault on our city. Detroiters are standing up against the schemes of Mayor Bing, Emergency Financial Manager…
This year I’m celebrating Mother’s Day with a mashup about Julia Ward Howe a founding mother of U.S. Mother’s Day, and the astonishing Hissa Hilal,…
This Mothers’ Day I would like to pay special tribute to (you Mom, of course), but also to the women known as Las Madres de…
James Rojas is an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into…
When thinking about urban environmental repair, there is perhaps no better place to start than in what may seem to be the most unlikely of…