Joan Chaker

@XazaarAdjame This statement by the Housing Justice Coalition lays out how bringing Palestine to bear on analysis opens up conceptual possibilities and avenues towards liberation publicworksstudio.com/en/tear-down-t… In every field, presenting theory as apolitical is a brutal politics of denial in itself.

In scrolling through many of the annual accounts of urban research institute activities for the past year, it is alarming but not unsurprising that the majority make no mention of mass urbanicide taking place in Palestine. So we give many props to the work of the Beirut Urban Lab

@XazaarAdjame Check out also the amazing work on Palestine undertaken by @publicworks_lb, @10Tooba…

BREAKING: A tsunami of debt has crashed over the world, and billions of people are drowning. Tomorrow, the G20 will meet to decide the direction of the global debt crisis — and a planetary movement is rising in resistance. Join the fight: act.progressive.international/fightthedebt/ And read on:

BREAKING: The IMF is preparing to strip the Central Bank of Ecuador out of the hands of its government in the name of "independence." Members of the @ProgIntl — incl. @Jayati1609, @yanisvaroufakis, and @BJMbraun — are standing up to the IMF's austerity agenda. A short 🧵:

#Public_Works_Studio launches the #housing_monitor’s Reporting Line for #Housing_Rights Violations and #Eviction Threats. @Housing_Monitor

BREAKING: The @ProgIntl has announced a new working group on global Debt Justice, convening academics, advocates, and organizers to dismantle an economic paradigm that has empowered a tiny class of creditors against the debtors of the world. Thread // progressive.international/blueprint/c8b8…

Jadaliyya jadaliyya.com/Details/40855#…

"The euro was founded on the idea that the control of currency was apolitical. It has destroyed that myth…" gu.com/p/4a7ep/stw

Last chance to support #Dalieh crowdfunding campaign beirutreport.com/2015/05/last-c…

#حقنا_نعرف ليه أسعار الأراضي بتضل تغلى وما عم نلاقي بيت نسكن فيه

#حقنا_نعرف شو مصير كل لاجىء في بلد ما بيحمي حقوق أضعف مواطنيه

حملة #حقنا_نعرف مستمرة! تضامنوا مع أهالي المفقودين والمخفيين قسرا خلال الحرب الأهلية في لبنان للتأكيد على حقهم في معرفة مصير أحبائهم. #لبنان

الى المرأة التي قضت عمرها تنتظر وتصرخ #حقنا_نعرف #لبنان

أنا مع جوان #بس_هنّي_وينن #حقنا_نعرف #40_الحرب facebook.com/32390527777136…

نحنا بشارع أرمينيا، #بس_هني_وينن ؟ #حقنا_نعرف @RightToKnow_Leb

#Harvard graduate students start movement to #unionize thecrimson.com/article/2015/4…

Help make it happen for مسابقة ألف دالية ودالية Dalieh Ideas Competition igg.me/p/dalieh-ideas… #indiegogo via @indiegogo

if you're going to read one article about what's happening to #Beirut 's seacoast (#Dalieh), it should be this one gu.com/p/46fy9/stw

مجلس شورى الدولة يقضي بوجوب هدم التعديات على الأملاك العامة البحرية في لبنان legal-agenda.com/article.php?id…

Rem Koolhas responds to the campaign against the project in #Dalieh one of #Beirut s last public beach fronts designmena.com/insight/koolha…