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Proximate to War: Uneasy Calm of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol
Just 20 kilometers from the front lines of separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine lies the city of Mariupol. The images tell us of a present and also help us imagine a possible future in this city as everyday residents navigate its uneasy calm. More -
As Canada Seeks to Expand a Tar Sands Pipeline, Resistance Grows
A broad assortment of activists, from First Nations leaders to poetry professors, have joined forces to protest an oil pipeline expansion that would disrupt life and land on British Columbia’s Burnaby Mountain. More -
“We Need the River to be Free”: Activists Fight the Privatization of Colombia’s Longest River
In southwest Colombia, rural communities have begun using direct action in their struggle against the privatization of natural resources by multinational corporations. More -
From the Blowout to the Movement: Mexican Political Action in Print
Military forces crushed a peaceful student movement with the October 2, 1968 massacre of demonstrators in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district. The students’ legacy lives on through political prints and cultural workshops by the city’s graphic design collective Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Mártires del ‘68. More -
Life Woven Into Revolution: A Look Into a Forgotten Women’s Movement
A new archive looks back at the Antifascist Front of Women, a movement that united two million women across postwar Yugoslavia in leading literacy courses and encouraging their fellow women to enter the workforce. More
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Editor’s Letter
It has been five years since Occupy Wall Street burst onto the scene at Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district. In this month’s editor’s letter, Marisa Mazria Katz speaks with interdisciplinary artist Michael Mandiberg about FDIC Insured, an ongoing visual archive chronicling the failure of banks and subverting the banking system’s aesthetics of permanence and potency.
Contributing Artists
Zanele Muholi
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mel Chin
Burnsville, NC, USA
Beyza Boyacioglu
New York, NY, USA
James Bridle
London, England
Bénédicte Desrus
Mexico City, Mexico