My digs for a couple of weeks.

Urban redesign, 1871, Place Vendome,

Happy May Day! Anti-colonial protests in Paris!

L'École Normale Supérieure (ENS) bloquée et occupée depuis ce matin sur le Campus Jourdan, par des étudiants en soutien à la Palestine. #Palestine #Gaza #SciencesPo

I want to know more about the Karl Marx of Stockport, who just won a seat for Labour in Stockport’s most deprived ward, Brinnington.

Please take a listen to a wise peer speak to the violence of everyday dispossession. Grateful to Erin Dej (she/her) for supporting this! SFU Research SFU Department of Geography crsp-talk.simplecast.com/episodes/thehum

Residents of CRAB Park sick of waiting for politicians to meet and listen to them have come to the BC Legislature. Will any MLA come speak with the people whose lives they freely use to score political points? We really hope so.

.Deborah Cowen was my PhD supervisor and every day I continue to learn from her grace under fire and the fierce love of her brilliance.

Reinstated bylaw is a major victory for Vancouver’s SRO tenants straight.com/city-culture/r… via Georgia Straight

Remaining, returning, remembering: Echo Park Lake Archive Collective of Institute on Inequality & Democracy . Thank you Nick Blomley & Alex Flynn for convening us at the ALPS conference.

dispossessive violence #climatejustice

Sports scholar Jules Boykoff and French activist Paul Alauzy with le revers de la médaille say preparations for the Paris Olympics have resulted in "violent social cleansing" over the last year, including mass expulsions of unhoused people, refugees and other marginalized groups.

cause and effect.... theguardian.com/world/article/…

Absolute dream to co-host this with Ananya Roy. It was a pleasure to show the group LA. Stay tuned for all our reflections in the coming months!

"arrest to dispossess" - This is a common strategy of police and sanitation tag-teaming on sweeps. The goal isn't incarceration, but dispossession. Booking is time-consuming, so if they can simply detain a person and remove them from their property, mission accomplished. 1/3

Who Gets To Partake in The Conversation? - Community-Engaged Research Initiative - Simon Fraser University sfu.ca/ceri/blog/2024…

A clarion call from my brother ⁦Seth Klein⁩ - and maybe the most compelling piece he’s ever written. If you’re committed to advancing climate action, please open yourself to this argument and consider it deeply. nationalobserver.com/2024/08/27/opi…

McGill Law Profs are on strike! I’d rather be heading to Property class to discuss how law structures the distribution of society’s resources, the coercive power of property owner-employers (Morris Cohen, 1927!), and alternative imaginations & collectivities.. but here we are..

Socreds are back #bcpoli