Quoted in El País article
I was interviewed by email for an article in El País, a center-left Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. I obviously… more
I was interviewed by email for an article in El País, a center-left Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. I obviously… more
“Although the July 27, 1953 Korean War armistice recommended that the United States, North Korea, and China to negotiate a permanent peace agreement in three months time, the Korean War persists today in the ongoing division of Korea, the continued U.S. military occupation of South Korea, the U.S.-led sanctions regime against North Korea, and the unabating militarization of the larger region.”… more
I recently did a short interview with Zócalo public Square in conjunction with the online panel discussion for “How Have Women’s Protests Changed History?” Their questions were great fun and the writers and editors did an amazing job.
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Very interesting article. LG Chem, one of the world’s leading battery makers, said it stopped buying Congo-sourced minerals late last year. Samsung SDI, another large battery maker, said that it is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether the company’s use of cobalt mined in Congo includes cobalt from Huayou.… more
A 19-year-old worker named Kim died on the job in Seoul yesterday, a day before his birthday. He was repairing… more
Sad news. Feminist geographer Doreen Massey has passed away. As many of you will have heard, Doreen died on Friday 11… more
A matter of law enforcement or livelihood struggles of the urban poor? Winter is high season for street vending and urban crackdown as can be seen in the recent violence against street vendors in Gangnam district of Seoul. With hundreds of city-hired security contractors (a.k.a. “thugs”) recorded on video overturning carts and destroying vendor property, it’s also high time to consider the urgent questions of informal economy, urban poverty, and state violence. Are legalization and taxation the obvious solution? It’s not such a simple matter, the article argues. For one, there is an enormous range among street vendors, from corporate to livelihood-based, income levels, and vending forms…… more
Progressive Catholics in solidarity with workers on an ongoing aerial/high-rise strike, now on Day 157.… more
Apparently Mayor Park yielded under pressure of extreme rightists and conservative protestant groups of South Korea. These groups of bigots have persistently pathologized and stigmatized sexual minorities and gender nonconforming people. They have been virtually following every public event held by LGBTQ groups to violently disrupt those scenes and attack the participants for last few years.… more
(Right-wing) “patriotic Christian political forces” is the cover story of Hankyoreh 21 magazine after their violent and hate-filled disruption of… more