Archive for October, 2014
James Tracy / Dispatches Against Displacement @ Floyd’s Old Town, Portland (October 20)
Friday, October 17th, 2014Conversation with James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars. A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as [...]
James Tracy / Dispatches Against Displacement @ Green Apple on the Park, San Francisco (October 26)
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014Reading, and discussion of James Tracy’s Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco’s Housing Wars. A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy excavates that history, exploring the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns [...]
Some reading to understand what’s happening in Kobanê and Rojava
Saturday, October 11th, 2014The Kurdish people are the largest nation in the world without a state. And many Kurds, especially in the autonomous region of Rojava (in Syria), aren’t interested in forming one. This fact often gets lost in the mainstream news accounts of the attacks by ISIS fundamentalists on the Kobanê (a canton in Rojava). No surprise there. [...]