Kenton Card (@kentoncard.bsky.social)
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Housing politics, eviction protections & documentary film. Postdoc @curaumn and affiliate at @minnpop & @BUonCities.
Excited to publish a special issue of @envplanc on Housing Movements & Racial Capitalism w/ @AkiraDrake & Margit Mayer Check out 5 great contributions!!👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Despite intense heatwaves, landlords have no legal duty to provide air conditioning to their rental properties. We need indoor temperature protections and enforcement NOW to keep tenants safe. laist.com/news/climate-e…
We broke down the logic of Israel’s policy of starvation, its architecture, and aims, showing how engineered starvation (and its supposed mitigation) is used as a tool to break Palestinian society.
A ceasefire is not enough. The Israeli military’s weaponisation of aid and starvation to displace and destroy Palestinian society will not stop as long as Israel controls aid distribution. Our new analysis shows how Israel has imposed a deadly aid system through GHF ration…
Our latest call for submissions (due Aug 31) "Contesting the University as Planner, Occupier and Developer": progressivecity.net/single-post/ca…
This is amazing and will make you smile. 🔥
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
Children in Sub-Saharan Africa receive just 3% of the public education funding available to their peers in Europe and North America. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @Nitin_K_Bharti, @amorygethin @mjenmana @ZhexunMO & Li Yang [1/10] 🔗The study and a summary are available…
This new volume, edited by @nickhwilson and @yrlsoc is full of ideas – some provocative – relevant to thinking about how to engage in historically-oriented research. I do not agree with all its arguments. But it discusses the right issues and provides much food for thought.
I think European politicians should be forced to spend a week at 45C every time they debate another greenwashing measure like the one below. Buying carbon credits, manufactured by clever carbon cowboys in countries where they can intimidate indigenous communities and regulators
EU plans to add carbon credits to new climate goal, document shows reut.rs/40q6L38
Good news! California renters without a lease now have stronger protections against eviction and rent hikes thanks to a new law! This is a crucial step to safeguard vulnerable tenants from unfair housing practices. kqed.org/news/12044014/…
Larry Summers might want to study some history of socialist economic thought before calling @ZohranKMamdani’s economic policies Trotskyite.
I am profoundly alarmed about the future of the @DNC and the country by yesterday’s NYC anointment of a candidate who failed to disavow a "globalize the intifada" slogan and advocated Trotskyite economic policies. I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most…
*Retake Berlin
first we take Manhattan and then we take Berlin
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Price controls for essentials like housing have been a key ingredient of @ZohranKMamdani’s winning campaign. Just saying.
CONGRATULATIONS TO @ZohranKMamdani! This is a win for an anti-fascist economics that deserves the name; that puts people, their dignity, their life first; that dares to go up against the powers ready to pave a slippery slope into the abyss.
Mamdani did it!!! He stands for making essentials affordable for all. Democrats will have to decide whether they focus on winning back the people or the billionaires. If they want to win elections and save democracy, the people is the only choice.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE RENT. IT’S ABOUT FOOD. IT’S ABOUT A LIFE WE CAN AFFORD. This is the winning agenda.