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The latest issue of TEIKO – an independent political magazine from Bologna – is now online. Download it! Comrades have done a brilliant job.
Among others, an article co-written with brother AbdouMaliq Simone on ‘Operation, military, sabotage’.
In ITA, here: https://www.teiko-rivista.online/
This weekend I will have the pleasure of taking part in the Conference to Resist the Militarisation of Universities, which will be held in Padua at the Casa del Popolo Meri Rampazzo (17 and 18 October).
The conference is organised by CoRDA, in collaboration with the Observatory Against Militarisation and the University Network for Palestine.
Speakers will include, amongst others, The Weapons Watch, Stop Academic Complicity France, the Palestinian Youth, the European Legal Support Centre and BDS Italy.
The continuation of intellectual work and struggles by other means.
La Classe, #rapconscious #antifa, is now available on all platforms.
Link: https://linktr.ee/laclasse_vogue
Peace!
On Saturday 26th at 15:30, we meet again in Turin with Potere al Popolo to discuss opposition to the militarisation of our territories and the Meloni government, and to work toward forming an independent anti-fascist popular front against all of this.
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddb-01_NFDK/?stkn=MTYweG92cjY0eDBpOA%3D%3D
Where: Circolo Arci La Cricca (via Carlo Ignazio Giulio 25/bis, Torino)
26-09 h. 15.30
This Sunday in Milan, I’ll be participating in Le Alleanze dei Corpi, which this year is paying tribute to the contribution of Black feminist thought on spatiality.
I’m very happy to be part of the festival on a panel curated by Elisabetta Consonni and Maria Paola Zedda, where we’ll discuss habitation and its injustices with my dear colleague Sarah Gainsforth, as well as Bertram Niessen, Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfaù, Rahel Sereke, Giulia Greppi (Scomodo), Leoncavallo, and Abitare in via Padova.
Info: https://lealleanzedeicorpi.org/
A reminder for the Beyond Inhabitation Lab gathering “Surfaces of War, Surfaces of Conveyance: Popular Intelligence and Military Capture in the Mediterranean”, to be held in Turin, 27th May – 1st June, 2027.
This is a twofold event that discusses habitability, popular intelligence, and militarist turns in the contemporary urban Mediterranean.
The deadline for submitting applications for the main Workshop is 23rd October, 2026.
You can find all relevant information on our website or in the document below: https://beyondinhabitation.org/surfaces-of-war-surfaces-of-conveyance-open-call-for-our-spring-2027-signature-event
Please help us circulate this call across the Mediterranean regions, especially toward the South and the East.
Sunday we are going to meet in Turin to continue our collective work against the militarization of our city. We are also fighting against an economic model pivoted around big events – such as the ATP finals – which brings little to residents but takes a lot.
All are welcome, with Potere al Popolo. Follow at https://www.instagram.com/poterealpopolo_torino/
Today I am going to take part in an online gathering, organised by Osvaldo Costantini, with a number of Italian anthropologists. The gist is to continue to discuss the role of the military sector in the Italian academy.
I will take part in this gathering with students from the Cambiare Rotta movement as well as a representative of the Osservatorio Contro la Militarizzazione delle Scuole e dell’Universitá.
All welcome at the link in the poster.
I’ve been able to spend a few days in LA with very special people. Old and new friends, organisers in Skid Row and Echo Park Lake, scholars whom I deeply admire – including my comrade Ananya, with whom we are cooking something up.
LA is a city that grew in me throughout time. I visit the first time in 2012, while I was working with Stewart Clegg in Sydney, Australia. Then I came back a number of times, especially in recent years, to do some research, attend and sometimes contribute to events organised by Ananya at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The work these folks have done over the last 10 years is quite impressive – both in terms of scholarship and genuine community building and radical engagement with housing justice struggles.
This time, I was also able to meet my dear friends John and Henriette from the LAPD again, who are continuing their important work in Skid Row.
Not an easy city, LA. A city of cities – with plenty of injustices and raw urbanity – but also hope and resourfulness. I look forward to coming back again, hopefully soon.
In Turin over the next few days, there will be three events continuing the debate on war, the military, universities and forms of resistance.
On Friday, 8 May, 3.30 pm, at the Ferdinando Rossi Forum, we will discuss militarisation and universities, building on and expanding the book I wrote for Eris Edizioni. Info: https://www.forumferdinandorossi.it/
On Saturday, 9 May, there are two events. At 3.30 pm, at the Festival della Casa del Popolo – Estella, with comrades from Potere al Popolo, we will discuss Europe and precariousness: https://poterealpopolo.org/notizie/dai-territori/piemonte/torino-costellazioni-quarta-edizione-festival-estella/
Finally, at 7.00 pm, I will have the pleasure of joining EMERGENCY in a series of talks against armed conflict at the Mercato Centrale in Turin: https://www.pressenza.com/it/2026/05/r1pud1a-torino-tre-giorni-di-eventi-iniziative-e-peace-therapy/
All welcome!
