“Tu Ke Bivas,” at the Kniznick Gallery this September.| Lilith Magazine
Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People (1981) is a deeply unsettling book, as it was meant to be. This is the book description from the back cover: For years, it had been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation.’ Now all over South Africa the cities are are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family – liberal whites […]| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
According to the most recent reports from OCHA, Colombia ranks fifth in the world with the largest number of internally displaced people. Nearly seven million people have been forcibly displaced in the country, averaging 180,000 a year. Internal forced displacement is one of the tragic consequences of the armed conflict, as communities are forced to... The post Forced Displacement and Forced Confinement in Colombia increases substantially appeared first on ABColombia.| ABColombia
New study reveals that poor housing quality is a key predictor of the risk of homelessness after wildfires and other natural disasters.| Invisible People
City Takes Baby Steps to Push Out Homeless Vehicle Dwellers A new ordinance aims to move along people living in their vehicles on the streets of San Francisco by limiting RV parking to a maximum of 2 hours. When counted … Continue reading →| Invisible People
When a border slices through Kurvaleti in Georgia, what vanishes is more than land: trust, kinship, and belonging unravel across a simple division.| Untold Mag
Tenants and working class people of the world will be familiar with our cause because there is a common thread we are all experiencing: exploitation at the hands of the 1%, who are committed to putting profit over The People! The post People over profit: Acorn tenants fight back appeared first on San Francisco Bay View.| San Francisco Bay View
“Never mind / that the bruise from such a severance / might not heal.” — Luisa A. Igloria| Read A Little Poetry
Daughters of Palestine is both an urgent testimony from Palestinian Christians and a timeless story of resilience.| EerdWord
Trust as currency against displacement The post “Be My Guest”: Trust as Economic Capital in Sudanese Displacement appeared first on African Arguments.| African Arguments
The intense heat is compounded as swarms of flies and mosquitoes infest the tents due to an absence of sewage services.| Truthout
Residents of north Gaza say a repeat of the early stages of the genocide is taking place, when hundreds of thousands were displaced to the south and barred from returning. Gazans fear that the latest wave is paving the way for the final displacement.| Mondoweiss
In Serving God Under Siege, Valentyn Syniy tells the story of an evangelical seminary losing everything—except its commitment to serving God.| EerdWord
War often forces people to move to other cities, countries, and continents in search of safety, food, and money. This displacement disturbs the routine life of people, separating them from their homes...| Mad In South Asia
The bill would have criminalized people that police “believe” consumed drugs outdoors.|
By Lidia Kuzemska. We are quickly approaching the third anniversary of forced displacement from Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion - a tragic benchmark no one wanted to believe in, let alone reach. I think it is time to reflect on how the situation related to the displacement of Ukrainians abroad has evolved during this period, and what trends can be expected in the near future. With this introductory post, I invite you to a conversation about the complex and entangled puzzle of U...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Qianrui Hu. Although Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shocked the whole world, Russia’s war against Ukraine started already in 2014 with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the military interventions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Eastern Ukraine. This blog post tries to unpack the dialectical relationship between war, migration, and memory, the central research theme at Prisma Ukraїna, from the perspective of the people who have been experiencing this war since 2014.| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes...| Chiapas Support Committee
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim confrontation at Komagata Maru sign unveiling a reminder from the local anti-colonial Panjabi movement that colonial violence is not past tense| themainlander.com
Guest post by Austin S. Matthews Sudan continues to suffer from a crisis created by its own military…| Political Violence at a Glance