Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Hmm. Do they breathe different air? E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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Much appreciation to Flandrine Lusson for reviewing our Solidarity Cities book in the Canadian Geographer! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Solidarity cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation By Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2025. pp....

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‪Also huge thanks to Penn Loh for a thorough review of our book "Solidarity Cities" in Economic Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... My co-authors are @msafri.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and @stephenhealy72.bsky.social Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of the use of mapping as an ontological practice in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Capitalism reproduces and relies upon racism. This much we know. But what if our efforts to push back against and move beyond capitalism do the same? This

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Grateful to Jay Cephas for a brief but incisive review of our book at Places. "Solidarity cites" collectively written by @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and myself. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social. placesjournal.org/article/book...

Bookshelf: Summer 2025 | Book Reviews in Places Journal

A seasonal offering of brief reviews of recent books on architecture, landscapes, cities, and related subjects.

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Our book SOLIDARITY CITIES made the long list for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. It's exciting to be selected alongside these other cool books! #solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social @stephenhealy87.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social

10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis

The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

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Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book! Thank you. @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of mapping that we used as an ontological practice for landscapes of solidarity economy in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

Capitalism reproduces and relies upon racism. This much we know. But what if our efforts to push back against and move beyond capitalism do the same? This

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This original reading of human history resonates with our “Solidarity Cities”book’s argument that people have built cities with the solidarity economy as both the collective means of resistance and a human way of life rooted in solidarity, www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities

msafri.bsky.social@msafri.bsky.social · last yr.

New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)

Would be eye opening to many US parents. No federally funded parental leave - shockingly. It is time to go back to the 1971 Comprehensive Child Development Act, passed by congress and killed by Nixon. We could have had federally subsidized daycare. Also note that corporations resent this idea.

She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good

A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so hard

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Interesting historical connections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it | Bernard Harcourt

A message tucked into an old book serves as a reminder that the assault on the institution is part of a long-planned effort

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Interesting historical connections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it | Bernard Harcourt

A message tucked into an old book serves as a reminder that the assault on the institution is part of a long-planned effort

theguardian.com

Would be eye opening to many US parents. No federally funded parental leave - shockingly. It is time to go back to the 1971 Comprehensive Child Development Act, passed by congress and killed by Nixon. We could have had federally subsidized daycare. Also note that corporations resent this idea.

She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good

A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so hard

theguardian.com

I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities

msafri.bsky.social@msafri.bsky.social · last yr.

New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)

The mayor of Newark was arrested today while protesting at a federal immigration detention center operated by GEO Group — a private prison company and major Trump donor. Kudos to Ras Baraka for standing up to this authoritarian regime.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

I hear that the mapping workshop with my #SolidarityCities book co-authors Craig @craigborowiak.bsky.social and Maliha @msafri.bsky.social was awesome. Great job and thank you!

Prompted by conversations on here, I asked ChatGPT what my most recent book was - sounds like a great book, but I did not (yet!) write it...

I want to give credit to Metz/Weise here for stating plainly that LLMs cannot decide that something is or isn't true or false. Stating the actual, real limitations of these models is necessary, and it's good to finally see this happening in the mainstream media without any throat clearing

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

Thank you to all of our readers, viewers, and followers for your support over the years. In the coming days, we'll share how you can support each of our staff members in their next adventures—because the industry needs them. Stay tuned. And never forget that a better world is possible. 🥹 💔

Broken Windows/ Quality of Life policing is making a come back. We should keep in mind it's toxic origins. www.gothamgazette.com/authors/130-...

The Neoconservative Roots of the Broken Windows Theory

Professor Alex Vitale traces the neoconservative roots of Broken Windows policing, a philosophy and practice championed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.

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Very lovely to work on this with @lbnaylor.bsky.social & great to see this conversation taking stock on decolonizing geography now published in @acme-geography.bsky.social

Lindsay Naylor@lbnaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

As part of the @acme-geography.bsky.social 20+ Anniversary celebration @rikjaz.bsky.social and I had a chat about decolonizing geography. Published here in the just released volume! #geosky #geogchat acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...

This is an open plan for genocide. Call it what it is. www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-say...

Smotrich says Gaza to be ‘totally destroyed,’ population ‘concentrated’ in small area

Ultranationalist minister says population will be 'totally despairing' and want to leave the Strip, also predicts West Bank will be annexed before end of government's term

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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Important conversations about academia are happening @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! Hear from some key leaders and scholars at tomorrow's event on "The Future of Higher Education," co-hosted by Public Programs, @futuresed.bsky.social , and @humanitiescuny.bsky.social : buff.ly/KwjL15A

This was fun! New book podcast on #solidaritycities with my coauthors. Thanks to Elena Sobrino for great interview!! elenasobrino.site @uminnpress.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social @stephenhealy87.bsky.social

Thanks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for hosting a conversation about our book. All four authors participated! The podcast with Elena Sorbino was posted on April 29, 2025 newbooksnetwork.com/solidarity-c.... #SolidarityCities. @uminnpress.bsky.social.

my latest piece of writing about COVID is out now. lots of wisdom from nurses in this one, but I think the most powerful thing is realizing that organizing is the only reason nurses ever got masks and supplies in 2020 -- and we can still organize for better now, too. truthout.org/articles/ami...

Amid Growing Health Threats, Nurses Are Still Fighting for Basic Protections

Health care workers know from experience that only organizing will lead to enforceable standards and better conditions.

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Exiting union station in DC which has a direct view of Capitol Hill but I was only interested in this Solidarity City project!

msafri.bsky.social@msafri.bsky.social · last yr.

“As the White House manufactures a crisis that compounds the existing struggles of working families, the mutual aid support gathered at Solidarity City will offer a radically different vision for how our communities can work together to meet each others’ needs”