Digital cartography and storytelling collective creating maps, tools, and stories against displacement and gentrification. Anticapitalist, antiracist, always
Does your landlord make you use online portals to pay rent or file maintenance requests? Are there cameras or electronic locks and key fobs in your building? We are crowdsourcing information about how landlords are surveilling tenants here! https://t.co/r8SLhk5yR4
Dear progressive candidates,
The Overton window is screaming for someone to rein in Big Tech.
None of you are bought by creepy super PACs.
Winning elections is becoming a habit.
It's a match made in heaven. Let's get some points on the board → https://t.co/4JGijRg7eW
In a response to Kahlenberg & Lin’s PPI critique of American Studies, Iván Chaar López & Erin McElroy argue that the “balance” they find missing in the field “is a hollow attempt to tilt the balance against those who dare to speak truth to power.”
https://t.co/wKKlN9PxgX
“Otherwise, we should rename the field to ‘American exceptionalism studies.’ And not be ambivalent about it. ”
New at PB: Iván Chaar López & Erin McElroy take on recent critiques of American studies.
https://t.co/wKKlN9PxgX
Excited for the this to be out there w @eSTSjournal
When ‘Open’ is Still Far from Good Enough: The Work of Counter-Mapping with Political Software
Luis Felipe R. Murillo
Erin McElroy
https://t.co/GiT0Qphu3h
Excited to have this out in the world
“Disciplining Through Landlord Technologies: Why the Carceral Logics of Tenant Surveillance Require Abolition”
https://t.co/IWgf8tWKdR
Tomorrow in San Diego
For those in San Diego tomorrow!
Political Technology: Silicon Traps and Cartographic Contradictions
Wednesday, October 29 · 4 - 5pm PDT
https://t.co/ObDqnMxWLL
Read about REP member @PeoplePowMedia's NEW REPORT @48hills! "Developers aren't building what the city needs. New study shows why @DanielLurie's zoning plan will never make housing affordable." https://t.co/36BNetYs8I
Read the report: https://t.co/fhrvCLUTkl #WhoIsSFBuildingFor
Did you know that neither L.A. City nor County track which eviction lawsuits actually make it to court? This lack of data makes it hard to understand how many renters are being displaced by evictions, and where.
Luckily, @antievictionmap is here to help! https://t.co/wwy2XGxNIF
📻Interview w/@ChallengeIneq's researcher @spiroferrer. Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along w/interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access https://t.co/dmNIVlVONp
From @Shelterforce. Lots of great tools featured in here including our Evictorbook, Landlord Tech Watch, and the Tenant Power Toolkit made in collaboration with the @StrikeDebt@LATenantsUnion@ChallengeIneq
https://t.co/f3AyYrrsDR
From #NYC to #Barcelona, @Airbnb is spending millions to flood our cities with short-term rentals, taking away homes from people who live there. Now we’re fighting back.
📢Join us to stand with tenants and stop Airbnb
In solidarity with @TenantsFirstNYC: https://t.co/YicMH7znR3
We have just learned of over a dozen F-1 visa revocations across the University of California system: 4 at Berkeley, 8 at UCLA, 5 at UCSD, 5 at UCI, 3 at UCSB. L Some are still learning more about why; others are related to existing criminal records.