Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Twitter trackers. Biometrics. Student security consultants. Professors of homeland security studies. Welcome to Repress U, class…

Here, amid the glittering ruins of globalized gentrification’s gilded age, a kind of glocal tenants’ movement is taking shape, at once locally…

March 1st, the Metropolitan Transit Authority launched a whirlwind tour of public hearings citywide. These hearings, though they may be for show,…

They don’t take it lying down, these people. And King Coal sure does dish it out. Last week, Massey Energy Company continued…

On the evening of June 7, 2009, the Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement brought 38 organizations and scores of people—tenants,…

Amid the global financial crisis, the private equity companies that once threatened to swallow up the last of Manhattans affordable housing stock…

While Guatemala’s thirty-six-year internal armed conflict ended in 1996, "peace" has not meant justice for the survivors of its disappearances, torture, rape…

At some point during the upcoming Republican National Convention, delegates will look out the windows of the Xcel Energy Center, or down…

Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors… Welcome to the new homeland security…

It’s tomato season in Immokalee, Florida. Today, like every other day, the tomato pickers will emerge from their trailers in the…