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Donnerstag 11. of Dezember 2008
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Category: Repression, Security
LumpenCity: Call for Abstracts: Interdisciplinary Conference at York University
Toronto, Canada | March 12-13, 2009 | www.lumpencity.com Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses Research on marginalized urban residents has been an academic cottage industry throughout the history...
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Category: Repression, Security 
Donnerstag 11. of Dezember 2008
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Greece - The extreme righ and police are joining forces to quench protests
Athen's unrest: We received the following text today from the INURA list server. Moses Boudourides (Patras University) describes how the extreme right, local shop owners and the police are chasing students and youth in general....
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Category: Repression, Security
Dienstag 04. of November 2008
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G4S Security: The Inequality beneath India's Economic Boom
In India 5,500 private security workers have been successful in fighting against their bosses. A court ruled that the workers are protected against loosing their jobs while fighting for their overtime premiums. We are providing...
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Category: Security, Control, Repression
Montag 20. of Oktober 2008
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Redefinition of public space within the privatization of cities: Call for papers
We will attend and so should you: The "5th international conference of the the research network private urban governance and gated communities" takes place in Santiago de Chile next spring (March 30th to April 2nd - wait: That's...
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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, Control
Freitag 27. of Juni 2008
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Kissing the Holocene Good-Bye: Mike Davis on the advent of the Anthropocene
This is not for the faint of heart. We are leaving the Holocene and it aint no fun either . Entering the Anthropocene (external link, reformated for readability).
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