Charmaine Chua
@charmainechua.bsky.social
Prof @ Berkeley Geography writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. www.charmainechua.com
Rep. Rashida Tlaib just introduced a bill to ban ICE from turning warehouses into concentration camps. Last week, @charmainechua.bsky.social wrote about the link between warehouses, commercial surplus, and carceral expansion: "A concealed infrastructure created by capitalists, adapted by fascists."
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
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everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4mo agoMake this make sense.
The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse! If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.
Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons
“The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers
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Yesterday brought essays by both Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social and Kate Wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the warehouse, the detention centre, the concentration camp. Get reading
Charmaine Chua@charmainechua.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
Really fascinating post from @charmainechua.bsky.social on the history of the warehouse, and what that means as ICE tries to turn warehouses into concentration camps.
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps. It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
Huge thanks to @jwlrt.bsky.social for his incredible, creative, brilliant editorial work on this piece.
Places Journal@placesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps. It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
placesjournal.org
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The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment
This article develops a new theory of the relationship between the built environment and the reproduction of capitalism. To do so, it pursues a critical engagement with David Harvey’s landmark texts o...
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We won. Every union representing workers at the University of California sued the Trump administration in September. Today, judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction barring Trump’s attempts to extort political leverage from public higher education. democracyforward.org/updates/cour...
Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Gain Leverage and Political Control Over University of California System - Democracy Forward
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Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book. Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm) Dept of Geography, Cambridge
Agenda Publishing@agendapub.bsky.social · 10mo ago“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week). uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt... #housing #debt
The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.
To inflict the worst pain imaginable on thousands of people, and then to tell us that we are wrong to feel outraged—it’s a murderous nihilism that shakes the moral foundation of the entire world. It’s unbearable.
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?
Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams
Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Childre
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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise." I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.
Materialist Institute for Research@ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
I talked to Joshua almost every day. I don’t know how to think about never being able to talk to him again. What now? Love you so much, friend.
Materialist Institute for Research@ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
This is one of the best times I've ever had at an academic conference - highly recommend submitting something to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies conference this fall.
Magnus Møller Ziegler@magnusz.bsky.social · last yr.🔔‼️ REMEMBER TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS Deadline is 1 May and there will be NO deadline extensions - Don’t hold off until the last minute, submit now!!!!
After 6 years at UCSB, on July 1 I will be starting as acting Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley, where I'll also anchor a cluster hire in AAPI studies. I feel so lucky, excited & intimidated to move to the bay are and to join such a storied center of radical intellectual inquiry.
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
Can you recommend me writing that deftly combines reflections on organizing with theory? More like Alyssa Battistoni’s "Spadework" nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...? I have major writers block and need to get unstuck.
Amazon Teamsters begin peak-season strikes around the country today. But make no mistake that what made this possible has been years of hard-fought class struggle organizing by incredible labor organizers who’ve been building rank and file militancy on their shopfloors long before they affiliated.
Amazon Teamsters Launch Peak Season Strike
Amazon Teamsters Launch Peak Season Strike
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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
Astonishing footage and conversations in this 16-min Jocelyne Saab documentary. Filmed aboard the Atlantis, the Greek ship that took the PLO leadership out of Beirut in 1982, into exile in Tunis. Currently free to stream. mediacityfilmfestival.com/program/le-b...
Le Bateau de l’exil, Jocelyne Saab, 1982 - Media City Film Festival
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We closed out the conference with a phenomenal keynote from @charmainechua.bsky.social on the logistics counter-revolution as a response to intertwining Third World national liberation and labor struggles in the 1960s. Read some of Charmaine's work here: www.charmainechua.com/publications
