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The women of Hamas
Suha Arraf’s The Women of Hamas (2011) is a cinematic observation of the political lives of Hamas’ leading women, and it does not shy away from the filmmaker’s speaking position and reflexivity, and...
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Transgressing virtual geographies
‘I hear echoes of Juarez/El Paso or the border in general—the neoliberal privatization of education, the dismantling of unions, the establishing of a hard border between those who will be able to...
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Final judgments: where peaches rot on the vine
1. The most lasting memory I have of Georgia, the state where my family emigrated to from Iran, was watching a black man flee from police while I was walking home from elementary school with my...
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Trails on the electronic frontier
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation is gathering nominations for its Twentieth Annual Pioneer Awards ‘to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and...
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Occupy Boston: The people and the land
I’ve lived in the Boston area on and off since 2005, and nothing I saw last night compares to anything that’s happened here in all those years. If there was ever a larger mass arrest in Boston...
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From Egypt to Occupy: ‘Keep going and do not stop’
The following is a solidarity statement sent to us today by comrades in Cairo. It is a powerful and extremely timely document on reclaiming space, the nature of speculative market capitalism,...
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On Occupy Harvard
I have a piece in today’s Los Angeles Review of Books on the nascent-formed Occupy Harvard, the ‘indefinite’ 24-hour lockdown of Harvard Yard, and campus divisions over the encampment (which I argue...
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Democratic leaders and OWS crackdowns
In ‘Here’s What Attempted Co-option of OWS Looks Like‘ Glenn Greenwald slammed the disingenuous and immoral ‘Occupy Congress’ effort to siphon the energy, labor, mass appeal, and success of the...
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For the health and safety of—
(‘George with a Gas Mask’ from F’NRAD) An anaphoric Twitter-essay. For the health and safety of UC-Davis students we deployed chemical weapons at point-blank range three times all over their bodies...
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Representation through occupation
I spent a few chilly hours walking through Occupy DC today, dropping off donations, talking to organizers, and taking photographs. I haven’t lived full-time in this city for several years but know it...
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The Miami (Super-)Model
‘A model … for the rest of the world to emulate in the future when these sort of events take place.’ —Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle If the seismic events of 2011 are any...
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Personhood of the year
”At the gate, he drenched himself in paint thinner and lit a match.’ (Photo: Mannoubia Bouazizi in Tunisia, by Peter Hapak.) Eight...
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Call and response
In November 2011 Triple Canopy asked me to contribute words and image to their compilation of ‘materials for a future we can’t anticipate but that the various Occupys are trying to model in...
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Hot or not?
This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Alfred Wallis, The Hold House Port Mear Square Island Port Mear Beach, ~1932. 1. It seems impossible to carry on as if a hybrid super-storm didn’t just shoot...
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A country torn: the Cicero March, 1966
From the Chicago Film Archives FilmGroup Collection, ‘Urban Crisis and the New Militants Series.’ First viewed in 16mm at Terror & the Inhuman: Magic Lantern Cinema, curated by Beth Capper....
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