a blog to explore the intersection of Black radical politics and urban/regional "planning". Thinking about how to build communities based in self-determination, human dignity and equality, ecological justice, and people(s)-centered human rights.
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On this day — the 181st anniversary of Antonio Maceo’s birth and the 98th anniversary of Che Guevara’s, please miss me with the defeatism and hand-wringing about Cuba recently economic policy changes announced by President Miguel Díaz-Canal on Friday
Black perspectives on the current situation in Venezuela, encroaching re-militarization in Panama, and the liberatory example of the Cuban Revolution
The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning. It is the latest front in the U.S.'s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who controls the future.
Read or Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 speech: "The Three Evils of Society"
A humble contribution toward a revolutionary new year
A brief review the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's announcement of its Communal Government of Transition to Socialism
Recent things I've read, listened to, and written -- 5 Dec 2025
A humble review of Venezuela's communal movement, its relevance to planners and anyone concerned with justice and democracy, and why we defend popular sovereignty
Recent things I've read, listened to, and written -- 17 Oct 2025
Some thoughts connecting the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a reading of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and the memory of my ancestors.
