28% of the market traders on the Rye Lane strip in Peckham, southeast London, speak four or more languages fluently (source: Dr Suzanne Hall, LSE).

'The high street is a space which includes those who are excluded from other spaces for economic/security reasons'.

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July, 2013. 40 abortion clinics in Texas (population approximately 26 million people*).

By September, 2014. Six abortion clinics in Texas.

* not sure what counts as a person in border zones sometimes, though, granted. or, any zone.

and how many deer, or how many trees, i could not say.

(sorry, just have had this lodged in my head since it started. writing as a meat-eater, yes.)

@_jonb and I see the ways we treat animals as a resource, a “standing reserve” as Heidegger would say, informs our acceptance of capitalism
— Rank Tributes (@svejky) June 7, 2014

All bodies are sovereign.

January 2013 archiving: An amazing mea culpa from the IMF’s chief economist on austerity

June, 2011. ICTY to Ratko Mladic: 'Genocide, persecution, murder, extermination, deportation, forcible transfer, torture, rape and plunder.'

Canny youth in London gares

Europe is literally the creation of the third world. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen

- Fanon

Tiana Reid is everything [tumblr, columns at THE STATE].

Her recent dancehall mix is accompanied by this jewel. i hear it loud on cool tarmacadam and routed through hot metal in inner London.
Speaking of the four volumes of THE STATE so far, iv on Dubai.

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Objects crystallise time, and demonstrate the work, as Caroline Osella might remind us.

yes

2011 archive re-up: DOUBLE MOVEMENT: THE RESURGENCE OF NEOLIBERALISM AND INEQUALITY

structure in the USA

(h/t: EWF)

(TY, EJ)

Jayati Ghosh archive on Unctad ("astute and progressive – so why don't developed countries like it?") here

Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, unearthed, considered once more, with feeling

Somali famine, 2011 - politics rules everything around you

Children, and Other People