“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.” Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

“Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history.”

Proposals to “repair” or “restore” the planet therefore must answer the questions: Which ecosystems—and whose—will we repair and restore? Which—and whose—flourishings will we enable? What planet are we making, and for whom? @alybatt.bsky.social

In the tradition of “can’t stop, won’t stop”…. ”In these cities, climate justice is more than a policy priority – it’s a survival strategy…. As federal funding evaporates, many cities are strengthening ties with frontline organizations — the local experts who’ve been leading the fight for decades.”

“Memphis history is full of destructive alliances between local government and major industry, forcing working-class Black neighborhoods to accept ecological and corporal violence in order to boost the region's economy…But AI data centers also represent a troubling new frontier…..”

“We’ve asked…the CEOs of banks like Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, insurance companies like Chubb and AIG — we’ve asked them to come to our communities, breathe the air, drink the water and get a taste of what we live every day. And they’ve refused to come. So we brought our community here to them.”

"They call us terrorists. We are being terrorised! Our doors are kicked open at four in the morning and our families dragged off to prison, never to be seen again....We are the ones who suffer all these horrors. They are the terrorists." #Apartheid then, Apartheid now.

Important thinking going on at Clark Atlanta University this Fall. “Through A Du Boisian Lens: Informing Public Policy Through Empirical Social Research”.

Interesting #abolitionist connections to #energy geography here: “….whaling’s role in funding abolition and providing economic opportunities for free Black Americans is undeniable. It was, in many ways, a bridge between the world of forced labor and the energy-driven economy of the modern age.”

The Gullah Geechee, descendants from enslaved West Africans who were forced to work in the Carolina Lowcountry, are struggling to preserve sacred traditions as wealthy northerners swallow up valuable property around Hilton Head Island. nyti.ms/4mmAwdW

The Lowcountry Food Bank has provided culturally relevant foods like okra, squash and yams to the Gullah Geechee people in South Carolina for 20 years.

No effective abolitionist and certainly no enslaved person walked up to a total stranger expressing dismay over the passage of the fugitive slave act to say, “well this is a racist country, what did you expect.” People kept organizing and building hope through collective resistance and rebellion.

"How do different political blocs emerge in different places to influence carceral developments?" @lydiajean.bsky.social with Ruth WIlson Gilmore, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social & Judah Schept in Part 1 of their new carceral geography series. inquest.org/uneven-e...

I have a chapter in the New Planning Histories edited volume. Lots of great chapters covering a range of topics and cities! link.springer.com/book/9789819...

“The #South got something to say.” André 3000 (very teachable) “The term ‘the Dirty South’ developed as a means to define hip hop music emerging from the Southeastern United States and was quickly understood as an abbreviation for the history and development of Black culture in the South.”

Toni Morrison (1981) for political ecologists: "I must confess, though, that I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals....my editor says 'Would you stop this beauty business.' And I say 'Wait, wait until I tell you about these ants.'"

“She wrote from her experience in a woman’s body and a dark skin, though never solely ‘as’ or ‘for.’ Sharply critical of chauvinism of all kinds, she was too aware of democracy’s failures to let herself embrace false integrations.” Adrienne Rich on June Jordan, born on this day in 1936:

Finally got to listen to @demonicgrounds.bsky.social on @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social and it was great. Highly recommended. Also a good reminder that it’s time for me to re-read “The Bluest Eye” (and “Song of Solomon” too).

Thinking about existing policy to be used to enact #reparations? Not long ago @nikki-luke.bsky.social and I were asked to boil down the main points from a chapter we wrote for @nextcity.org. The result was this op-ed titled "How Cities Are Experimenting With Reparations in Urban Policy”.

Seems like a good time to revisit Mab Segrest. “Memoir of a Race Traitor” became a classic text of white antiracist practice. bell hooks called it a “courageous and daring [example of] the reality that political solidarity, forged in struggle, can exist across differences.”

“The lethality of many prisons, jails, and detention centers also lies in the cages' infrastructures, as many are built on toxic wastelands or sites that have already been destroyed by climate change, improper agricultural practices, and climate disasters.”

#SapeloIsland’s #HoggHummock is one of the last #GullahGeechee island communities, but it's fighting for survival on multiple fronts. Rising #sea levels threaten to #flood the land, while development pressures risk changing the community's character and pushing out residents…. #AJC #SOLO #S2S

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

"By leaning on the island‘s rich ecology — and the Gullah Geechee people’s intimate knowledge of their land — scientists are hopeful they can keep #HoggHummock above the waves." New story in #AJC about our collaborative work on Sapelo Island. Read it here: shorturl.at/ICATU. #SOLO #S2S

“The point I'm trying to make, movin' from place to place and time to time (is that) vibrations that bring on new vibrations is all that's on peoples minds. (They tell me) Don't be 'fraid of revolution! It ain't nothin' but change and change is surely bound to come.” youtu.be/C8ORbZg5YaI?...

You'd think they have learned from all their study that democracy is NOT like a sinking ship; you save it by staying in the fight, not by securing a place for yourself on the first lifeboat to push off. It's fine if you want to leave, but don't call it an "act of protest."

“Across the world, the right wing is blowing up everything and incinerating the planet. White supremacy is apocalyptic for everyone. Regular people are stepping into the fray, providing the varied, creative, noncooperative opposition to the neo-fascist administrative takeover that we need.”

UGA’s Cornelia Walker Bailey Program (CWBP) on Land, Sea and Agriculture is proud to partner with Mr. Stanley Walker as we launch our first event of the new CWBP Arts program. Join Mr. Walker on Sapelo Island in a three day cast net making workshop. Registration and more info on CWBP www.

“Build and Fight…is fundamentally an argument for building eco-socialism via the democratic practices and tools of the solidarity economy, through the federation of countless self-organized and autonomous projects organized around practices that aggregate power and capacity…...”

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery - and commemorate resistance. And they’re all published with @versobooks.bsky.social! theconversation.com/three-graphi....

On the list of timeless songs that speak to these times is @theogrizol.bsky.social Tacoma Center 1600. “Buses carry unnamed inmates / To unnamed jails on unnamed roads”

how do we read and write and love and share nourbeSe philip’s writing without turning her words into fungible academic (or otherwise) objects? guys! I try to answer this question as ‘A Smile Split by the Stars.’ come through if you have time… www.gallery44.org/exhibitions/...

Solidarity with all trans folks. It can't be easy (especially in the US & with gender criticals claiming victory in the UK ) but hang on in there. One day these fascists will fall #TransRights #TransDayofVisibility

Re-reading @lydiajean.bsky.social important book to discuss with her and other folks in Detroit at the AAG (3/27/25 @ 10:10). C’mon. #abolitionist #infrastructures

Ella Baker and #SNCC are as important as ever: “She was the one who sat down with Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levison to discuss how to create a continuing movement out of the Montgomery bus boycott, leading to SCLC’s formation.” www.washingtoninformer.com/ella-baker-c...

Caught a screening of this last night and found it provocative and moving, especially as we enter the 5th anniversary of Covid. Worth a watch. #foodpolitics www.foodandcountryfilm.com

Two years ago, Congressional hearings were discussing the growing number of bomb threats against Historically Black Colleges and Universities and resulting trauma. The threats keep happening but there no ongoing discussion about protecting students at #HBCUs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdWX...

Furious about attacks on DEI? Exquisite timing for this awesome new collection edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves @spacedemands.bsky.social with chapters on strategies across academia and community action. Thrilled to be a contributor. @geographers.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/how...

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

Hot of the press: “Memory, (Re)Making, and the Futures of Indigo” by Maurice Bailey, Nik Heynen, photographs by Rinne Allen in Southern Cultures. Available here: muse.jhu.edu/article/9516...