Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Category Archives: Federal Reserve

Ben’s Marilyn Willendorf

Love it. The ancient fertility symbol Venus of Willendorf updated, Marilyn style. Thanks Ben.

10 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

My preambular comments followed by Dr Yunus’s address: Gandhi once observed that “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Peace and justice are inextricably linked. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize … Continue reading

14 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

The view from the subaltern: our best hope against fascism

In social theory there is the notion that the view from the margins, from those most repressed, marginalised or oppressed, often offers the most prescient and trenchant insights into the … Continue reading

10 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

For Enlightened White Guys

I was very impressed with the following thoughtful and deeply aware passage from an enlightened white male. It is humble, conscious and canny and aware of the dynamics of social … Continue reading

14 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


Categories