Tag: occupy wall street

  • David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: A Guide to the Vexed

    David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: A Guide to the Vexed

    Reviewed in this essay: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, by David Harvey. Verso Press, 2012. The scale and frequency of the urban protest movements of the last two years has overshadowed anything since the 1960’s. It was perhaps simpler then than it is now to conceive of what…

  • TRB Podcast: Diana Taylor on “Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off”

    TRB Podcast: Diana Taylor on “Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off”

    On January 18th, the Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the TransCanada Institute / School of English and Theatre Studies (University of Guelph), presented Dr. Diana Taylor’s lecture entitled “Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off.” Listen here:[audio:taylor.mp3] As Taylor asks in the abstract for her talk, “What options for political and economic justice…

  • Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest: A Review

    Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest: A Review

    Reviewed in this essay: Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest, eds. Tom Malleson and David Wachsmuth. Between The Lines, 2011. Chris Hedges got into a lot of trouble from the occupy movement recently. I happened to be in Oakland when the whole brouhaha over his controversial Truth Dig piece, “The Cancer…