Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Ewa's powerful testimony

Ewa Jasiewicz’s powerful testimony on the continued plight of Palestinians in Gaza and what the ISM and Free Gaza Movement are doing about it, and what we can all do … Continue reading

24 October, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Empire Lovers Strike Back

This short essay is pure Vidal, and the vintage is only 1986. It first appeared in The Nation and coruscates with his sharp apprehension and defiance. “Of course I like … Continue reading

21 October, 2009 · 5 Comments

Challenging the Dahiyeh Doctrine: the Samouni Family and the Goldstone Report

The Samouni family of Palestine lost 29 members of its extended family in Israel’s December massacre against the defenceless population in Gaza. Brenda Heard, founder of Friends of Lebanon, reveals … Continue reading

18 October, 2009 · Leave a comment

A Museum of Intolerance in Jerusalem

An excellent address by Saree Makdisi who was in Australia recently as the 2009 recipient of the Adelaide-based Edward Said Memorial Lecture (there is also a US-based Edward Said Memorial … Continue reading

15 October, 2009 · 2 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"


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