by A.J. Caro* At a Glance (Source: Amnesty International) Amnesty International documented the killing of 22 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank in 2013. At least four were children. According to the UN, more West Bank Palestinians were killed by Israeli … Continue reading →
by Salvatore (Turi) Palidda* The drowning of 700 (and maybe as many as 900) migrants in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on April 17, 2015, should be seen as a direct consequence of two major facts: the multiplication of … Continue reading →
Critical scholars, experts, and activists reflect on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. • • • FREE DOWNLOAD Download: PDF (interactive) Download: EPUB Download: MOBI (for Kindle) We are offering this volume as a free … Continue reading →
by A.J. Caro* “Did you hear the news?” asked my driver and teacher Mohammed, as we were leaving Ben Gurion Airport after my arrival Friday afternoon. “No,” I said, “have been flying for the last 10 hours.” Mohammed, in his … Continue reading →
by Laurie Coyle* * This is the first in a series of dispatches by filmmaker Laurie Coyle and Chicana activist and former political prisoner Olga Talamante documenting their current trip to Argentina. The occasion is the November 28, 2013, premiere … Continue reading →
by Bill Rolston* With state prisoners in California and detained immigrants in Seattle using the hunger strike as a form of protest, what can we learn from prisoners in Northern Ireland who used hunger and art as weapons of resistance … Continue reading →
Free PDF download for KPFA listeners: Alessandro De Giorgi Back to Nothing: Prisoner Reentry and Neoliberal Neglect From Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security, edited by Robert Werth Vol. 44(1), pp. 83–120
by David Meggyesy* The only reason parents hit their children is because they can get away with it — A. S. Neill, Summerhill As a physically abused child, as many of us are, I read the above quote as a young … Continue reading →
by Alessandro De Giorgi* The materials presented in this blog series draw from an ethnographic study on prisoner reentry I have been conducting between March 2011 and March 2014 in a neighborhood of West Oakland, California, which is plagued by … Continue reading →
by Cliff Welch* While Olympic athletes faced victory and defeat along the putrid shores of Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, on the shores of sparkly Lake Paranoá in Brasilia, Brazil’s 36th president, Dilma Rousseff, faced only defeats as her enemies … Continue reading →