“IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING, THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL.” - EMMA GOLDMAN
What we’re reading:
(2018). “There’s no such thing as revolutionary government.” Crimethinc.
A Weekly Correction: July 3 2019
The City and What It Means To Be Authentic
In this episode we speak with Sharon Zukin about her book, Naked City, the Death And Life of Authentic Urban Places. Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of books on urban, cultural and economic change. She is writing a book about New York's tech economy from hackathons to Amazon.
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Music by Podington Bear
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Summer Vacation Reading List
We thought it might be fun to put together a Summer Break reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our beach towels right now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them!
Non-fiction
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Maid by Stephanie Land
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Fiction
2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Weekly Correction: June 25, 2019
The Real Estate State
We speak with Samuel Stein about gentrification. Samuel Stein is a geography PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
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A Weekly Correction: June 18, 2019
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city […] The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” - David Harvey
What we’re reading :
What's Next for Cuba?
We talk with Sujatha Fernades about Cuba after the Pink Tide. Sujatha Fernandes teaches political economy and sociology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of several books, including Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006) and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book is Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently completing a collection of essays entitled The Cuban Hustle.
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The Fight Against the Neo-Liberal University
We talk with Jeff Schuhrke about how grad workers at UCI staged their first-ever strike…and won! Jeff Schuhrke is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-president of the Graduate Employees Organization, AFT Local 6297.
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A Weekly Correction: June 11, 2019
An Ethical Education: In Conversation with Jon Moscow and Amy Halpern-Laff
We talk with Amy Halpern-Laff and Jon Moscow about their exciting new podcast Ethical Schools. Amy and Jon are the co-executive directors of Ethics in Education Network. Together they edit the newsletter, coordinate professional development services, and host the podcast. You can find them on social media or at the park with their dogs.
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