Archive for the ‘ Resistance ’ Category
Next week Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS banker, begins a forty month sentence, a punitive vengeance by the rich men and women whose illegal Swiss bank accounts he revealed to the US government. Fourteen thousand multimillionaires and, we know, billionaires had illegal accounts for years. They hold positions of authority in the United States. And the [ READ MORE ]
So Glenn Beck’s conspiracy theories now position Frances Fox Piven as the conduit from Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives to Obama and the liberal left…uh…sorry, the “radical left fringe”. [ READ MORE ]
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Claim property for low-income neighbors, demand action from city government From Picture the Homeless: El Barrio/East Harlem, NYC. —Homeless people have taken over an empty building in East Harlem, as part of a coordinated push-back against city policies that let buildings stay empty. The building, which is owned by the city, has been completely vacant for decades. Deborah [ READ MORE ]
I’ve got a 2pm interview, but I think I’m going to have to stop here on the way in. For those who haven’t heard, Picture the Homeless, an awesome non-profit run by homeless and previously homeless folks in NYC, is going to *occupy a building tomorrow.* They are starting off a “housing not warehousing” campaign, addressing [ READ MORE ]
[Straight from the magic that is Metafilter:] Conspicuous Combustion: since May 2007, 292 luxury cars have been burned in Berlin. A simple Google Map at brennende-autos.de (“Burning Cars”) charts the date, model, and location of each. [ READ MORE ]
Reclaiming Spaces has a series of links regarding protest in the UK. The first is about aggressive measures to quell the growing number of university student protests in UK universities. Over twenty occupations have taken place over the last year and have spread to the US and elsewhere. Hicham Yezza writes in the Guardian: Since when [ READ MORE ]
An ignomious ending to the most recent chapter of the NYU student protests. [ READ MORE ]
The Raw Story reports on an interview by Ann Goodman with RNC protesters being charged with the actions of other people under the Patriot Act. [ READ MORE ]
NYU students are following in the New School’s footsteps (via Don E. Walicek on Language of New Capitalism listserv). At approximately 10pm last night, students of Take Back NYU! took over the Kimmel Marketplace. They have blockaded the doors and declared an occupation! They presented their demands to the NYU administration. They read as follows: DEMANDS We, [ READ MORE ]
The NYTimes reports today that ACORN has initiated a new campaign to assist homeowners resist eviction when they are being unjustly foreclosed upon. [ READ MORE ]
David Harvey’s opening speech at the Urban Reform Tent, January 29, 2009, World Social Forum, Belem (Many thanks to Brian Mier for translation/transcription. And thanks to Patrick Bond for sharing this article via Massimo Allamandola.) I’m delighted to be here, but first of all I’d like to apologize for speaking English which is the language of international [ READ MORE ]
Right to the City Alliance disrupts Bloomberg conference with businessmen. [Bloomberg] stood stone-faced as the protesters filed in and surrounded several of the tables packed with bankers, developers and other business leaders who had paid up to $249 a head to hear him and others speak. (The mayor might have perfected his nonchalance on Monday, when [ READ MORE ]
While I was in the plane flying to Korea, a terrible accident occured on Hankangno (road) in Yongsan, Seoul. A combination of skyrocketing property values, rampant land speculation, expectations of new and improved construction, extremely large construction companies, and a strong central government has led to very large-scale redevelopments of lower income neighborhoods into expansive apartement [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been sitting here reading about megaprojects and installing a virtual machine on my computer so I can run Acrobat Professional. Solomon Burke’s I Have a Dream came on. I was immediately reminded of the upcoming holiday and subsequent inauguration as well as Peter Marcuse’s insistence that the general principles espoused by MLK in the [ READ MORE ]