- Istanbul is on Fire (2011)
- Taksim Solidarity Calls for Transparency Over Future of Symbolic Square (2012)
- Ekümenopolis: Ucu Olmayan ?ehir
This week:
- “The protests began with approximately seventy Right to the City protesters in Gezi Park on 27 May”
- “As high rises replace shanty towns, and shopping malls blossom at the speed of flowers in the spring, the 606 trees at Taksim Park turned into a real issue for many.”
- “Looking back, it seems inevitable that a larger uprising was to come.”
- “Last night no one slept in Istanbul."
- “many factions of Turkish society – leftist groups, unions, nationalists, Kemalists and members of the gay and transgender communities waving rainbow flags…”
- Everywhere is Taksim, Resistance Everywhere
- A Report from Gezi Park
- Mashallah News’s Gezi Park Occupation liveblog
- From Privileged Activism to an Outcry Against Repression: #OccupyGezi and AKP
- Why the Gezi Park Protests Do Not Herald a Turkish Spring (Yet)
- A poem by Nazim Hikmet that has been everywhere, especially the last stanza:
- Davet (Turkish)
- Invitation (English)
- Turkish rock band Duman’s #occupygezi song “Eyvallah,” with English subtitles:
- “Today we are all someone new”
Makes himself care about the Stanley Cup, and he does it for you.
- Henry Morgentaler (1923-2013)
- How unions should and should not participate in electoral politics.
- Forget crack. Here's what Rob Ford is really about.
- May architects ethically design rooms for torture or executions? (radio 18:11)
- Order and disorder after disaster in New Orleans, New York, and Port-au-Prince.
- Disasters. evacuation, and the power of home.
- Occupy the Beaubourg.
- New York City's privatized parks.
- Memorializing Kosovo's Jewish community.
- Dumplings and Yiddish transliteration pedantry. (radio 9:16)
Too sweet for Japanese curry.
- The Declassification Engine
- Protests Show Turks Can’t Tolerate Erdogan Anymore
- Guide to Arrested Development jokes
- Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus - Live in Oslo 1964
- “The role of belief in religion is greatly overstated…”
- “this organization of light and dark, this macchia, is what really moves the spectator”
- “Figueiredo describes the enslavement of indigenous people, torture of children and theft of land.”
- “we adivasis are being squeezed from both sides”
- “Now look, I meant it the way I said it.”
These links will not be centered or shortened.
- Africa in Indian Ink: Urdu Articulations of Indian Settlement in East Africa
- Vijay Prashad on diaspora, South Asian American history, racism, multiculturalism
- Short film about James Baldwin in Istanbul
- The Japanese sold as slaves by Portuguese traders
- Syria in the 1950s
- In the Eye of the Storm: The History of Lebanon Revisited
- Taksim Through Time
- Tamil science fiction from 1906
- The history of Persian language and literature in China
- From Rubble To Revival: Haitian Art’s Arab Connection
- Empire Wants What’s Best for the Arabs
- The View from Dubai: Censorship and Resistance in the Emirates
- "Germany has done for coffee what De Beers has done for a century for diamonds, it aggregated without adding value"
- Wa waila - Kuwaiti short film
- The Daughters of 1979
- Libraries in Mumbai
- Home of the Indian mind
- The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent
- Palestine’s Occupied Fourth Estate: An Inside Look at the Work Lives of Palestinian Print Journalists
- A Laskari Lexicon
- Protip: Immaculate Conception is not the Virgin Birth
- A Welsh tea house in Patagonia
- Humans of Tbilisi
- Straight Allies, White Anti-Racists, Male Feminists (and Other Labels That Mean Nothing to Me)
War, palaces, huts, peace.
- "UC Berkeley has had a long and documented history of silencing survivors of sexual violence."
- Communiqué from the recent occupation of Dutton Hall at UC Davis
- The University of California's "Risk Summit 2013"
- Adjunct faculty, now in the majority, organize across DC
- Dual power at Cooper Union?
- "'I am very, very, very interested in MOOCs,' [Education Secretary Arne Duncan] said. 'We need some disruptive innovation in higher education.'"
- "[Y]ou have to recognize the elegant beauty of a perfectly executed hustle." (The hustle.)
- Reading the fine print of the Georgia Tech-Udacity deal
- Notes on the anti-MOOC backlash
- Rebirth of the teaching machine
- "[T]he teacher expressed dissatisfaction with the level of 'blackness' in the student’s reading of the poem."
- Urban school reform is about land development, not kids
- Dear class of 2013: You've been scammed
- "Dependence may be the primary trait of the millennial generation, but it is a structural dependence, caused not by 'laziness' or 'narcissism' but by a lack of options or social mobility."
- Writing the history of American slavery
- Crisis theory for anti-capitalists
- Rioting with reason: From Sweden to England and back again
- From privileged activism to an outcry against repression: #OccupyGezi and AKP
- #OccupyGezi pics