My compa at The Debt Collective 🟥's Jason Wozniak and I have been working for months to get a special issue of Rethinking Schools out, all about debt. I'm thrilled to see it in print.

I wrote about class conflict in Black America for issue #2 of Hammer & Hope! hammerandhope.org/article/black-…

"I'm always trying to get my students to distinguish between race, which is a fiction, and racism, which is a crime against humanity." - Barbara Fields (45:00) youtube.com/live/jt5MS5XRV…

Read Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on “the universality of housing instability, housing insecurity, and housing precarity in the United States.” bit.ly/45hJC2n

I wrote about Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research and the broader implications for the movement against racism. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

I'm ready to rock for spring semester! Really excited to teach these classes. And happy to share these syllabi with anyone teaching similar stuff.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

The The Daily Princetonian student editorial board on the University's "unprecedented" decision to remove Gaza protest encampments, while arresting and expelling student protestors. dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

Emory professor Nicole McAfee, chair of the university's philosophy department, was among those arrested amid the Atlanta school's crackdown on student protesters. Democracy Now! spoke to Professor McAfee about the protests, which she says were "peaceful" until police arrived.

The tools of outside agitators everywhere! It’s so much worse than I thought!

My colleague & friend, the great labor historian Prof. Annelise Orleck. Annelise is out & ok, but was told that a condition of her release is being banned from campus, despite currently teaching two courses.

It’s also remarkable that he’s been so wrong on so many major issues over the past half-century: busing, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, the war in Iraq. And now he’s wrong on this.

“The singling out of students may make it appear as though they are extreme and out of touch w/the public when, in fact, they are giving expression to widely held sentiment…The school yr is wrapping up, but it feels like this movement is just beginning.” newyorker.com/news/essay/the…

Nice write-up of the mapping project that Brent Cebul and I have been working on, exploring FHA redlining and rental housing. We hope to launch the map sometime next year! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-sas-…

Today, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Tina Smith introduced a bill to create over 1 million units of green social housing. Some would be brand new; some would be homes saved from real estate speculators, then upgraded and governed off the market. This is how you tackle the 21st housing crisis!