From Mobilizing to Organizing: Community Organizing in Columbus, Ohio

August 22, 2016 It’s Friday at the People’s Justice Project (PJP) office, and the walls are covered in giant note pads for battle plans. On butcher paper the team has written the names of the candidates in the Franklin County prosecutor’s race and the positions each one takes on mass incarceration and policing—PJP’s main issue … Read more

City & Coloured: Race, Space, and Redistribution in Cape Town

Between Cape Town’s airport and its city center, visitors drive past a poorly concealed scar: the underdeveloped townships allocated for black residents during apartheid. Despite legion policy efforts, they remain similarly peopled today. Arriving at the urban center, however, this destitution is replaced by bustling malls, luxurious hotels, and a booming tourism industry insistent that … Read more

Committing to Service: A Neighborhood and Its Hospital

What happens when you travel north from Manhattan’s downtown and Midtown, away from the eye-catching commercial billboards and throngs of office dwellers? You abandon the visual rush for a new intensity: cerebral, emotional, raw. The buildings remain nearly as tall, nearly as crowded, still grouped together for a purpose. In East Harlem, that purpose is … Read more