Ananya Roy
@ananyaUCLA
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This spectacle of non-policing is quite something. In one of the world’s most militarized cities. A stark reminder that in this settler democracy, the seat of power is a comfortable & welcoming space for white supremacist violence.
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One cannot talk abolition & be silent about Palestinian freedom; one cannot write/tweet about evictions/segregation & not care about Gaza, East Jerusalem, West Bank; one cannot teach radical geog/critical urban theory without a curriculum on this settler colonialism & apartheid.
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An armed kidnapping right before our eyes.
One more arrest at the UCLA Pro Palestine protest
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Let’s be clear. Chris Wallace wasn’t incompetent. He was complicit. From soft balling the tax evasion question to inciting violence against BLM protests to silence on the “stand by,” he continues to be the gentlemanly handmaiden of white power.
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Every night at UCLA, Zionist mobs enact terror on student protesters who are peacefully gathered inside their encampment. They do so with impunity. In the meantime, campus messaging criminalizes & penalizes student protesters. Shame on my university.
This is a fuxking disaster at ucla Zionists just set off fire work at the encampment
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The terrifying thing about liberal democracies is that structures of racial-ethnic violence are reproduced & legitimized through the polite rituals of electoral representation. And thus we organize not against a coup but against & within seemingly legitimate institutions.
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You all want to show compassion? Start with the workers who have had to serve & clean after the hand-shaking, hugging, no-mask Republican elite at the White House, at fundraisers, at the rallies. Start with them.
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This is a brutal doctoral admissions season. We are turning away brilliant scholars with records of inspiring work because universities are in a state of manufactured scarcity & mismanaged uncertainty. The loss is academia’s which would be a far better place with these scholars.
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It was brought to our attention that last night LAPD used Jackie Robinson Stadium
@UCLA
to detain protesters. Read the faculty letter demanding a full account, immediate cessation of such use of UCLA facilities & concrete steps towards divestment:
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Terror with impunity. Self-professed proudly Zionist mobs attacking the student encampment at UCLA tonight.
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Vaccine grabs.
“The clinic is located in a part of South LA that is more than 97% Latino & Black, with a median income of $39,162. But many people who waited...outside the clinic were white & came from beyond the surrounding neighborhood.”
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It should be unfuckingbelievable but it’s not. In LA, home to hoards of wealth, at a time of massive federal & state resources, there is no shelter for thousands of unhoused residents who are facing icy-cold wet weather. Instead they are being targeted with cruel sweeps. 1/2
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A cold, hard rain is lashing at thousands of unhoused people in one of the wealthiest cities in the world. And those who control the means of housing, including thousands of vacant hotel rooms, do not feel compelled to act. This is a human rights crime.
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UCLA just announced changes to academic personnel processes in response to the Covid-19 crisis, including extension of the tenure/SOE clock for assistant profs & lecturers by a full year & ways for all faculty to demonstrate loss of research productivity & service. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Here is another statement by UCLA faculty, this time from members of the Dept of English condemning the university’s police raid on the student protest encampment & its inaction against violent mobs attacking student protesters.
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Fuck off.
How could the adoption of virtual classrooms, in an effort to contain the spread of
#coronavirus
, jumpstart the long-term adoption of remote learning? Adam Nordin of Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division explains:
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Here’s what’s on my mind: this is not a moment of austerity. Billions of federal dollars are circulating in public & nonprofit housing/shelter systems. Yet, working-class tenants & the unhoused are being consigned to displaceability & banishment. That is the cruel logic at hand.
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This morning I would like to lift up the statement issued by UCLA students on the night of April 30. I am haunted by this line: “The university would rather see us dead than divest.” I want to remind us all of their demands, those for which our students have risked everything.
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No statements needed. Just resignations.
L.A. Councilman Kevin de León breaks his silence on his recorded convo with Council President Nury Martinez & crew, saying he "fell short of the expectations we set for our leaders"
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The CA curfew makes little sense in relation to what we know about the spread & impact of the virus.
But it does show the extraordinary powers held by governments in public health emergencies.
Such powers could be used to commandeer hotels & house people.
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Homelessness is LA’s
#1
issue. Mayoral hopefuls want to expand policing, especially of the unhoused. We, the After Echo Park Lake research collective, will drop a (80k words!) truth-telling monograph on March 23 that exposes liberal complicity with criminalization. Stay tuned.
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For those reading NYT & asking “who the fuck is Ananya Roy?” I’m currently immersed in a year-long ethnographic research project with movement & unhoused comrades to understand/dismantle the churning system of criminalization & displacement that creates & reproduces houselessness
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How it started.
How it’s going.
This is what “reckoning” looks like in all our institutions. Lasts at best a few weeks.
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We are being enlisted into normalizing this crisis. A few thoughts.
There is no fucking academic continuity. The most we can do is teach critical analysis of what the crisis has exposed. But we’ll have to do so with love & care, not redesigned grading schemes & endless zoom. 1/4
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I am not a legal expert but I have to assume that the collusions about redistricting, with deliberate intent to screw over specific communities & destroy certain council districts, places this within the jurisdiction of state/ federal investigation.
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A historic labor strike started today at UCLA, one that not only stands up against student repression (think France, May 1968) but also stands up for students demanding Palestinian liberation (unprecedented). Divest. Disclose. Abolish. End the Silence. Boycott.
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Good morning folks. Just sharing one example of the emails I get. It’s very similar in content & tone to what was being verbally (and ultimately physically) hurled at student protesters at UCLA.
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My mom, in Kolkata, through tears, notes that loved ones are dying in a steady drip. One single sweep would be better, she says. All together.
And then in anger, she reminds me of the deaths we don’t see or mourn:, the 70% of India that lives/dies in poverty. Before/after virus.
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My students are not doing well. I’ve been teaching for 20+years & I’ve never witnessed this much stress, care obligations, financial insecurity & sheer sadness pile up for my students.
I continue to believe in & practice teaching as a radical act of connection & reciprocity.
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I’m a postcolonial subject. The wealth of the British monarchy rests on the prolonged plunder of Bengal. Yeah, defections are cool but abolish the fucking monarchy, return the wealth, make reparation.
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Hello academia...are you paying attention to the WNBA & NBA? All us tenured professors? I see lots of complaints but where’s the strike at?
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Ethnography requires an extraordinary investment of time.The deep engagement with sites & subjects extends into meticulous & laborious reading & ordering of notes, records, ephemera that slowly reveals structures & silences. If you don’t do it, you might not appreciate the rigor.
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It’s exactly 6 months since the
#1
public university let police use its iconic
#JackieRobinson
Stadium as a field jail to hold
#BlackLivesMatter
protesters as prisoners. Hear for the first time from detainees held
@UCLA
& organizers demanding
#CopsOffCampus
#AbolitionNOW
!
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Patriarchy is a thief of time. Over the years, I have lost so much time correcting & checking misogynist academics & their non-academic counterparts. This repetitive, gendered labor is exhausting & unpayable.
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Mike Davis’s work has been foundational for all that we do
@ChallengeIneq
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And I’ll say it again. This is banishment. It’s civil death. It’s social death. It’s necropolitics. LA is rapidly becoming the urban paradigm of municipal ordinances weaponized against the unhoused.
L.A. could ban homeless people from sleeping near schools, parks and other facilities
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The US empire-state knows only one way of dealing with poverty: carcerality. It is not just the conservative Supreme Court but also all the liberal politicians who filed amici briefs begging for the power to criminalize homelessness.
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It was established in April 2020 that
@MayorOfLA
has legal authority to commandeer property during a public health emergency. Plus FEMA reimbursement, 75% & now 100%, has been available. Yet there is no will to
#seizethehotels
& house the thousands relegated to the streets.
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Just a reminder that “community policing,” of which Jones is a poster-child, is an integral part of US counterinsurgency & has a long history of targeting & infiltrating communities of color. It is the police violence that the liberal establishment has always found palatable.
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Today UCLA faculty rallied in support of the student protests underway here & elsewhere with the message that Palestinian liberation lies at the heart of all social justice struggles. And that speaking on the matter is a fundamental right. My darling dog agrees!
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Today at UCLA, students committed to justice for Palestine established a liberated zone, organizing teach-ins, discussion circles, Passover Seder, music & much more. The student protests across the nation are historic, akin to those against the Vietnam war & S African apartheid.
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#EchoParkRiseUp
has exposed the police-prison logics of “homeless management” — of how the liberal offer of shelter & services, always tied to carceral rules & inevitably temporary — is undergirded by police violence. The police AND the liberal lubricators have to be abolished.
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It is deeply troubling that LA politicians are comparing housing justice organizers, who are literally saving lives through their advocacy, to Jan 6 insurrectionists. In doing so, they are inciting violence, along with pushing policies that are violent towards the poor.
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“If I die unhoused - forget burial - just drop my body on the steps of city hall.”
@StreetWatchLA
inspired by ACT UP.
This jacket belonged to Tony Goodwin, Black veteran, who passed away on the streets after being evicted from Project Roomkey.
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I have been a faculty member at the University of California for 25 years & my students continue to inspire me. But this pattern of cowardly administration which calls the cops on students but remains in hiding is pathetic. So are the silent majority faculty.
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These shootings are not “senseless,” a favorite word in the aftermath. They are the elimination logic of white supremacy. They have a meticulous citationary structure, inter-referencing other violent discourses & acts. “Lonely white man” is blatantly false.
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Urban Studies 101: The continued increase in houselessness in LA is not an unfortunate accident. It is the direct result of policies that evict & criminalize working-class communities of color + those that promote & protect urban development affordable only to the wealthy.
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There are no surprises here. Derek Chauvin was the painless sacrifice offered up to ensure that all Kyle Rittenhouses can be acquitted & the racial contract renewed. There is no justice to be found in the structures of white supremacy. Abolition/liberation is the only way.
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Today faculty experts from UCLA, USC, UCI, Oxy wrote to
@MayorOfLA
@heidimarstonLA
@MitchOFarrell
& CMs expressing grave concern about the violent police-led eviction of the
#Echoparklake
homeless community & calling into question claims of housing. Read
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An Open Letter to the UCLA Community from Jewish Faculty and Staff, signed by colleagues I deeply value & respect:
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I’m proud to join UCLA’s most prominent scholars of social & racial justice, law, history, global studies, health sciences & more for academic freedom in relation to the Palestine exception (liberals defend academic freedom except in case of Palestine):
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I stop to fill gas. Someone asks me for help with gas money. I help. A Karen comes over to lecture me on how my “nice gesture aided a drug addict. “This is what they do,” she said scornfully. Ah, this, or any other day, is not a good time to get in my face with anti-poor hate.
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Today, as the last session of Histories & Theories of Planning got underway in zoomworld, many of my 67 students had their cameras turned off. A few minutes later, in perfect coordination, they turned on their cameras & held up handwritten thank you signs. Yes, I cried.
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I see housing justice movements working so very hard to save lives and provide care. I see mutual aid networks scramble to distribute warm socks & mylar blankets. In the meantime, the city’s electeds can’t even muster charity, let alone housing policy. 2/2
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LA politicians hailed the Echo Park Lake displacement as a super-successful “housing transition.” Now those who were guaranteed permanent housing & have been patiently waiting for 1.5 years in the PRK Grand are getting eviction notices with this “housing” offer. 1/3
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Today’s events at UCLA show that we are under police occupation by orders from our administration. These are not conditions under which faculty can teach or students can learn. These are not conditions that can be normalized or accepted. Here are the minimum demands of faculty:
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Nithya Raman’s victory in LA CD4 is my only moment of pure joy in this election. Why? Because
@nithyavraman
put forward visionary policy ideas rooted in ethical relationship to impacted communities. Kudos to
@PplsCityCouncil
@GroundGameLA
& many more for organizing for this win.
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This is blatantly sexist. The super-smart woman who has done the careful homework & has the established qualifications greatly improves the male incumbent’s policy positions but she herself is not endorsed by the
@latimes
for political office.
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bell hooks’s work was the theory & methodology through which I made my own space in urban studies & planning. It was the foundation that the white canon couldn’t bear, the language it couldn’t speak. It freed me, a gift for which I am eternally grateful. Rest in Power.
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I’m often asked, especially by prospective students, what it means to be at home in academia. For me, it’s about relationships of deep friendship & unflinching solidarity that have to & can be built amidst the shitshow that is academic powerbrokering & competitive individualism.
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The global crisis upon us is one that poor communities live everyday. I don’t simply mean the public health crisis. I mean spatial containment, endless lost time, uncertain financial futures, emotional stress. Can the rest of us practice solidarity when placed in such crisis? 4/4
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UC administrators have decided to escalate strike-busting tactics by devising faculty “attestation” forms & threatening disciplinary action against faculty. Excerpts from the email sent out by my department chair. Stay tuned for the faculty response.
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At the start of Spring quarter, my pact with students was teaching & learning with care & compassion in the time of crisis. Now it’s the time of uprising. We, as faculty, can choose to be rule-keepers & gate-keepers & grade-keepers. Or we can practice a pedagogy of justice.
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So now that it is blatantly obvious to the nation what the apparatus of police is about, what & whom it keeps safe, & the kind of violence to which it is an accomplice, let’s make it happen:
#DefundThePolice
#CopsOffCampus
#AbolitionNow
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The historic student protests continue. Yesterday at UCLA, our students maintained peace & purpose, ignoring incitement by counter protesters. Inside the liberated zone, there were study circles, music, camaraderie, art-making & more. Our students have become our teachers.
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After nearly a year of racial justice uprising that renewed demands to defund the police, here in LA the police is being empowered by the city’s political elite to enact violence against unhoused neighbors, who are, in this city, disproportionately Black.
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UCLA is literally the headlines tonight. And they remind us of why students & faculty organized last year for abolition. Because the police-admin apparatus doesn’t keep us safe. They only manage the crisis. We keep each other safe.
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Today, in Kolkata, was a memorial service for my father who passed away unexpectedly. He taught me to question established truths, especially nation & religion. He expected me to defy all norms for Indian girls. I will hold onto this legacy as tightly as I once held onto him.
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During the past few months, I watched many in the halls of academia embrace & promote the Lincoln Project as brave saviors of democracy while shunning & vilifying the Bernie Sanders ground-game organizing as dangerous & divisive. Hope their consulting gigs are going well.
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Property over personhood. Always. Always. Always. How could it be otherwise in a country whose wealth relied on the transmutation of personhood into property? It couldn’t be. But it’s enraging. Media, politicians, religious leaders: they all need to shut the fuck up.
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.
@Erika_D_Smith
of
@latimes
this is a deeply troubling framing. What was “idiotic” is a mayoral forum on homelessness that silenced voices of the unhoused & ignored the facts on the ground about homelessness. If folks can’t stand protest, they shouldn’t run for political office.
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I was fearless at 20. In my darkest times, I remind myself of that bad-ass girl & try to channel her unshakeable confidence.
#MeAt20
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We are in the midst of national uprising & grief about police violence. And the University of California is proposing policing changes that would enable “special response teams” for “riot control” & concealed weapon carry on campus by retired police officers. FUCK THIS!👇🏽
The UC Wants its Own National Guard and Other Fucked Up News. THREAD. 1/
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Here is the razor-sharp analysis by the one & only Robin DG Kelley of antisemitism & anti-Palestinian violence at UCLA in
@BostonReview
:
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The normalization of bailouts for wealthy corporations, many of which are not extending any support to their workers, has to be refused. Trickle-down relief does not work. It’s time to center workers, not CEOs. 2/4
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It seems to me that movement orgs spent the pandemic supporting communities & expanding life-affirming infrastructures such as housing. In contrast, LA's electeds spent the pandemic scheming on how to enact a brutal regime of utter banishment targeting unhoused neighbors.
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I see glimpses of a new common sense forming around key policies & programs that hitherto seemed out of reach: ban evictions, house the unhoused, confiscate vacant properties, build universal healthcare, abolish student debt...These have always been possible 3/4
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Now, and always, is the time for universities to divest from the murderous apparatus that is the police. Here is an announcement from the President of Univ of Minnesota to students taking a first step towards this (thanks to my niece for sharing).
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Here is the first report of the UCLA Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Muslim, and Anti-Arab Racism co-chaired by Profs Gaye Theresa Johnson & Sherene Razack. Task force members include Profs Robin DG Kelley, Saree Makdisi & Shannon Speed.
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The dire headlines attest to the death & suffering in LA County, the epicenter of the global pandemic. Yet “hot spots” of outbreaks, from retail stores to courthouses, are open. People are getting summons for jury duty & workers have to sell luxury clothing. It’s a death-cult.
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It’s here! Looking forward to being in conversation with
@DavarianBaldwin
on 4/12 about this book. We’ll talk about the extra-territoriality of university policing, racialized labor regimes, land-grabs legitimized by public good arguments & more. Join us:
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“Do you know where your tax dollars will be spent?” With this simple but powerful question
@kennethmejiaLA
, with a campaign brilliantly run by
@theglowingstars
, has demonstrated the strength of a divest/invest framework. It can be done! (Photo taken while driving, 8/18/21).
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The foodie in me has always adored Anthony Bourdain. The urbanist in me has admired his incisive analysis & deft storytelling of the socio-political lives of cities. He has been a better urban theorist than most of us. May he find his peaceful spot.
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I didn’t become an academic in order to reproduce the university. If this institution of knowledge-making (one among many) is to matter in racial justice & anticolonial struggles, then those of us on the inside have to refuse, rebel, remake.
#ScholarStrike
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Berkeley trained me well. It was there that I witnessed & experienced how the abuse of power continues in academic departments through silence & silencing. “It’s a private, departmental/ personnel matter” was a convenient ploy. The damage is & was incalculable.
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In the name of “care,” liberal California is moving to place the unhoused in court-ordered conservatorship. This conveniently conflates homelessness with mental illness and consolidates the rightlessness of the unhoused. It’s a war on the poor, this time by liberal means.👇🏽
NEW: Gov Newsom's plan to force unhoused people into treatment has sparked immediate backlash from civil rights groups and disability rights advocates.
“Subjecting unhoused people to forced treatment is extremely draconian + morally wrong" -
@EveGarrow
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I am tired of the romanticization of informality. Spend some time with the precariat in Indian cities & watch the police render illegal their daily “entrepreneurial” practices. Watch them dismiss state-issued documents. Watch the extortion. Watch the police on the streets.
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Mills College will cease to be a degree-granting institution. I arrived there in 1988, alone, drawn to a part of the world I had never even visited & rebelling against advice to attend one of the better-known East Coast colleges. Here I am with my mom outside my dorm.1/3
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Once again the
@latimes
gets it dead wrong.👇🏽Literally so. The current LA City Council is tyrannical, in process & outcome. Its policies enact social death & actual death on the poor & unhoused. If there is democracy in LA, it’s being kept alive by social justice activists.
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And then there is this cruel idiocy. There is literally stacks of research showing that working-class communities are forced to drive long distances because they can’t afford to live close to work. Can’t read research? It’s just COMMON SENSE.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says taxing drivers by the mile “shows a lot of promise” and could be a way to fund a big infrastructure overhaul.
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On my mind as I teach Histories & Theories of Planning: the tyranny of practicality has led to the diminution and depoliticization of urban planning as a discipline & profession.
Social movements demonstrate that the impractical becomes practical through struggle.
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Let’s start with the inspiring. Today displaced Echo Park Lake residents returned to the reopened “park” (more on that in a minute) to assert community & shared struggle. They are united in their critique of carceral housing, LA’s latest model of displacement. 1/4
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I was an “international student” for many years of undergrad & grad education. We took on the campus jobs & summer employment that no one else wanted/ had to do. The I-20 governed mobility, making the rare trips home harrowing. But what is now at hand is terror unleashed by ICE.
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What is core curriculum? What is pre-requisite knowledge? In urban planning, our incoming grad students complete a summer math camp. Math is fine, but if I had my way, they would all be reading Black Reconstruction as prep for a grad education in planning.
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Upcoming teaching week. Calling bullshit on the popular Covid-19 line, “We’re all in this together.” Used to bestow naive comfort or solicit sacrifice, this slogan obfuscates the structural inequalities of racial capitalism that are being exposed & deepened by this crisis.
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Open letter to
@MayorOfLA
from researchers
@ChallengeIneq
expressing grave & urgent concerns about the displacement of, & escalating police violence against, the Aetna Street community, where we have been doing research and collaborative pedagogy for a year. Read & amplify. 1/7
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Read this thread👇🏽. Their policies are anti-Black & enact social death & actual death. Now we know that they are explicitly & collusively anti-Black. There should be no options here other than immediate resignation.
“Fuck that guy… He’s with the Blacks.”
LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and LA Labor Federation President Ron Herrera making racist comments and discuss redistricting.
Listen to the audio:
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