Buffalo, New York is the quintessential rust belt metropolis. With a population lower today than it was in 1900, Buffalo is the third poorest U.S. city of over 250,000 people (following Detroit and Cleveland), with more than a quarter of the city living below the poverty line. And, like Detroit and Cleveland, even as Buffalo’s job market hits rock bottom, its share of community gardens, neighborhood revitalization projects, and adventurous urban initiatives, is on the rise.
Author Archives: Jeff Conant
Observations from the Road: Philadelphia
As I travel to give presentations from A Poetics of Resistance, I’ll be updating this blog with brief observations, that are, in one way or another, relevant to the themes of the book and the related work. Here, then, is dispatch number one: In Phillie, I had a terrific event at Wooden Shoe Books, aContinue reading “Observations from the Road: Philadelphia”
A Poetics of Resistance goes on the road…..
I’ll be presenting A Poetics of Resistance, with readings, talks, and in conversation with allied organizations, in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this August and September. Watch this blog for details and updates…. Author Appearances 8.27: Philadelphia: Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM 8.30: Buffalo: Hallwalls, 7 PM 9.7: Ithaca, NY: Cornell U, 4:30 PM 9.9: Burlington,Continue reading “A Poetics of Resistance goes on the road…..”
What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis
I recently wrote this article for Foreign Policy in Focus; It’s been posted as well on TruthOut, Upside Down World, Toward Freedom, and CommonDreams. — jc With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta!” (“Enough already!”) Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization.Continue reading “What the Zapatistas Can Teach us About the Climate Crisis”
Great review of Poetics of Resistance on Amazon
Since my new book, A Poetics of Resistance, has only been out three weeks, I don’t expect a lot of reviews to appear in short order. But one reader has already posted an embarrassingly laudatory review on Amazon. So, while I’d prefer folks buy the book directly from AK Press, it’s worth having a lookContinue reading “Great review of Poetics of Resistance on Amazon”
A Poetics of Resistance
I’m not generally a blogger, so this site likely won’t be updated tremendously except when events require; so let me use this space to announce the release of my book: A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, from AK Press, available now!
Keep an Eye on Climate Voices…
Of Water and Climate and Where We are Headed…
In the days leading up to the People’s Conference on Climate Change, another international event, related in theme but organized independently, was held in Cochabamba.
Toward Strategic Action on All Fronts
One of the very important aspects of the meetings coming up this week will be the simple fact of people’s movements gathering to talk to each other and build strategies without interference from governments, without the immediate distraction of negotiations, and with an agenda set largely by themselves. Of course, In any gathering where weContinue reading “Toward Strategic Action on All Fronts”
From Thirty Thousand Feet Above Mother Earth
En route to Bolivia – that is, somewhere 30,000 feet above Mother Earth – I crossed paths with Alberto Saldamando, the legal council for the International Indian Treaty Council, and a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network delegation to the Cochabamba climate summit. As we stood in the aisle of the airplane, raising the hacklesContinue reading “From Thirty Thousand Feet Above Mother Earth”
The Watering Hole :: Jeff Conant 