In recent weeks, concerns about the Trump administration’s policies of family separation and child detention have sparked a firestorm of media attention and a powerful public outcry. In response, the administration has become increasingly vocal and radical in asserting the legitimacy of its actions and rhetorically assassinating any claims to refuge or protection individuals and families in detention offer in their defense.

On 12th March 2018, after six days of talks with ACAS, UCU, and Universities UK emerged to put a compromise proposal to members regarding the Universities Superannuation Scheme (Weale, 2018a). A day later, it was clear that UCU members were still engaged in their fourth week of industrial action and had rejected that compromise.

The following photographs and video-stills take origin from map encounters. They are caught in public spaces or during moments of domestic life.

Late last spring, two hundred students and researchers in Sao Paulo defied the political and economic backslide in Brazil in a particularly audacious way: they let a well-known witch lead them in a spiraling ritual dance and invocatory chant aimed at regenerating the land on which the city was built.

The New Silk Road presents the perspective of a world without barriers, where logistics is not a means but an end. A world in which connectivity is productive in itself. This vision, repeated over and over again by the participants of the Forum, is not just a vacuous slogan for a complex project yet to be defined.

February and March 2018 brought a mass walkout on UK university campuses over pension reform, but also state-wide teachers’ strikes in West Virginia, university campus strikes in Canada, ongoing struggles to unionize US university campuses, student walk-outs in US high schools over gun violence, and upcoming strikes in Kentucky and Oklahoma. We invite students, graduate students, teachers of all levels, lecturers, professional staff, and union organizers to submit ideas to us.

China has experienced enormous economic growth over the past four decades, with the rising tide affecting urbanites and villages alike—albeit vastly unevenly. However, times are changing, with the nationally declared economic slowdown lapping at the door. Drum Village finds itself at cross roads: heavily reliant on coal mining and primary industry, the economy of the region is in decline.

With some contemporary environmentalists dismayingly allying themselves with this closed-border vision of the world, we feel it is necessary to highlight the ways in which struggles against national borders and against the racial geographies of capitalism more broadly are of central importance to any fight against climate chaos.

When we listen to the accounts of those most impacted by racism rather than defensively dismiss them, we can see the pervasiveness of violence. We can see that for Professor Marrus’ ‘joke’ to provoke humor rather than pain and rage, our Black colleagues would first need to feel liberty, equity and basic safety where they work.

It is hard not to interpret the plaintive and frustrated reminders of citizenship status coming from Caribbean peoples in US territories, colonies really, as a clear, strategic attempt to make sure to fall on the “right side” of the state’s obligations to human beings. But there is another lesson to be learned from the demand for recognition as citizens that arises at the insular and coastal margins of U.S. empire in the wake of disasters: a clear sense that the very category of “citizen,” premised upon white supremacy in settler colonies like the U.S., has never been a secure status for income-poor people, especially people of color.