Check out Flagpole’s coverage of our Town Hall Meeting last Saturday. Representative Hice was unable to attend “due to scheduling conflicts” even though he was given months of notice. We look forward to attending any town hall meeting set up by the congressman, but do request that he hold the […]
Public Spaces
The past few years have seen the concept of “community” become nearly enveloped by the pockets of big business. Indeed, with the dominant structures of “community” being mediated through the Internet – by its very nature a commercial channel – it only seems natural that commercial spaces are becoming the […]
The term public space has only been around for a few decades, but the concept has been with us for much longer. In many ways the definition of public space has come out of struggles to protect it—a sort of “don’t know what you have until it’s threatened” kind of […]
“Commons could be a way to understand not only what is at stake but also how to get there. I believe that we need to create forms of collective struggle that match collective emancipatory aims, forms that can also show us what is worthy of dreaming about an emancipated future.” […]