Don Mitchel is Geography department chair at Syracuse University and director of the People’s Geography Project. He has written extensively on homelessness and public space, how protest is silenced in public space and migrant labour. His book, The Right to The City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, charts the struggle for public space and its connection to social movements in the United States. Concordia Geography graduate Matthew Gore and I had the chance to speak with Mitchel after his lecture in Montreal to mark the 60th anniversary of the University of Montreal’s geography department.
Transcription by Matthew Gore
Archive for April, 2008
Interview with Marxist Geographer Don Mitchell
Canadian Dimension, Friday, April 11th, 2008, 2 Comments »
Ex-CIA analyst on Petraeus and Cheney
Canadian Dimension, Friday, April 11th, 2008, No Comments »
Interview with KI Political Prisoner Cecilia Begg
Canadian Dimension, Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, 2 Comments »
(Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 97) By Jon Thompson. Cecilia Begg is the Head Councillor of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation in Northern Ontario. She is the lone female community leader in what has come to be known as the KI6, a group serving six months for contempt after blockading a mining company from its licensed operations on disputed land near their community (See Bullet #95). In her first interview since her incarceration, she spoke with The Enterprise’s Jon Thompson at the Kenora jail about the road that has led her to this point, the reasons she is fighting the development, and the path that she hopes will emerge from her imprisonment.
Israeli Apartheid and “Free Speech”
Canadian Dimension, Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, No Comments »
University of Toronto
Department of Acceptable Truths
April 1, 2008
To the Members of the University Community:
The unintended consequences of not regulating
Corvin Russell, Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, 1 Comment »
I can’t stand how free market ideologues smugly talk about the “unintended consequences” of regulation. Everything has unintended consequences — including the conscious decision not to regulate. Get over it and stop with disingenuous, superior argumentation.
Naomi Klein: Israel, Don’t Act Normal
Canadian Dimension, Tuesday, April 8th, 2008, 4 Comments »
On March 28, 2008, Naomi Klein gave the keynote address to Canada’s first Independent Canadian Jewish Conference, attended by over 100 Jews against the occupation of Palestine from over a dozen organizations in over 20 cities across Canada. ACTivist Magazine posted Klein’s address in this four-part video:
If Americans Knew
Canadian Dimension, Monday, April 7th, 2008, 1 Comment »
Courtesy If Americans Knew
A Memo to John Baird on Carbon Capture and Storage
Canadian Dimension, Monday, April 7th, 2008, No Comments »
“It won’t do the job, no one knows if it is safe, and it won’t arrive in time”
TO: JOHN BAIRD, Minister of the Environment, Ottawa, Canada courtesy Climate & Capitalism.
Supermarket Cashiers should take stand
Canadian Dimension, Sunday, April 6th, 2008, 2 Comments »
Haivens’ “blog from Bologna” posted a “rant about making supermarket cashiers stand.” Here’s an excerpt:
Part of the Progressive Bloggers Network.