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Por Alejandro Rofman Es bien conocida la trayectoria de la Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo en la Argentina. Actualicemos, brevemente, su historia. A mediados del año 1977–hace una década–en plena Dictadura Militar en la Argentina, un grupo de madres de jóvenes desaparecidos por los represores de dicha Dictadura, comenzaron a reclamar de viva voz […]
By Alejandro Rofman In 1977, in the midst of Argentina’s military dictatorship, a group of mothers of young people who were disappeared by the military began to raise their voices, demanding to know the whereabouts of their children and to reintegrate them into society. The children were political and social militants captured by the armed […]
By Jonathan Thompson In 1970, radical Chicano activists swept into office in Crystal City, Texas, taking control of almost all of the institutions of local government in the small South Texas town. Part of a sophisticated political project by Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) activists, including José Angel Gutiérrez and María Luz Gutiérrez, the Crystal City […]
Security and Planning After 9-11 by Amy Siciliano and Norma Rantisi Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners by Matt Hidek Civic Duty: From Neighborhood Watch to ‘USAOnWatch’ by Marilena Liguori Israel’s Wall in Palestine: Control, not Security by Gary Fields From Fences to Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Joseph […]
By Peter Marcuse The U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta this July was a major success. There were some 10,000 people in attendance, 951 workshops and four plenaries, along with lots of culture, tents, networking and solidarity. It was amazingly grassroots. Almost everything was bilingual and a range of groups were represented; there were many Hispanic […]
By Gary Fields In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and soon after that South African apartheid crumbled. At the time it appeared that such systems, with their landscapes of walls and practices of separation, would be consigned to historical memory. Today, however, there is a new generation of fear-driven landscapes, ranging from urban-based, gated communities […]
By Marilena Liguori On November 8, 2001 and in the wake of 9/11, President George W. Bush called on all Americans “to serve by bettering our communities and, thereby, defy and defeat the terrorists.” During the State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, he once again asked all Americans to commit at least […]
By Matt Hidek Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States government has developed defensive strategies to protect its cities through a complex web of networked security initiatives. As part of the “Global War on Terror,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has partnered with state and local law enforcement agencies to deploy military-based intelligence […]
Grassroots Disaster Recovery Planning: New Orleans and Beyond Jason Neville and Clara Irazábal Social Justice in New Orleans: Planning after Katrina Peter Marcuse Transforming Top-Down to Bottom-Up Planning in Post-Katrina Mississippi Jennifer Evans-Cowley and Meghan Z. Gough Involving Students in Reconstructing New Orleans: An Example from Richmond Thad Williamson with Steve Horvath, Corrie Mixon and […]
By Kanishka Goonewardena The “real” planner must be a radical planner, planning for social justice and social change. In order to do this type of planning today, the hegemony of neoliberalism must be contested and defeated. What is neoliberalism? Neoliberalism is the dominant political-economic thought of our time–the philosophy of corporate globalization, which in turn […]
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