#Displacement

Lee-Ann Mudaly

LeeAnnMudaly

Today marks UNHCR's 70th anniversary after its creation responding to mass displacement post WWII. As @JamousRema, UNHCR's Canadian Representative highlighted, it also marks the ongoing failure of the international community

Hum Hain Karachi

humhainkarachi

Land displacement is not a gender-neutral process. During our research at @KarachiUrbanLab on #Displacement, women expressed higher levels of distress due to consistently higher loss of social safety, community disruption,

Lee

BaigentLee

I need a place to write this down. I've just been looking at Japanese destroyers through good ol' Wikipedia. 10 classes ranging between 4,000 and 10,500 tonnes displacement. The majority

Darrell Owens

IDoTheThinking

I'm getting real sick and tired of people calling bus and bike lanes "gentrification" when in reality they just wanna park and go 50 mph without giving up a lane

Robert Falconer

RRFalconer

The projection used in the report cited here and in other outlets is based on an extremely poor interpretation and use of data. Thread. 1/9https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/09/climate-crisis-could-displace-12bn-people-by-2050

Getu Teressa

GetuTeressa

1. Amhara Nationalists want to explain the Gumuz people's violence towards highlanders as nothing but a primitive instinct (mind you, the violence is targeted at Amhara, Agew, and Oromo i.e

Carolyn Whitzman she/her

CWhitzman

No easy answer, which is why there is resistance to 15 min city jargon! Ping @EcologyOttawa @JLeiper @HorizonOttawa Step 1 heat map neighbourhoods for access & priorise poorly served areas

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Folks need to pay closer attention to housing reclamation struggles. That area of the work is going to explode next year out of necessity. It will be a major site

John Roberts

john_actuary

An interesting, often asked, and very reasonable question is regarding the level of forward displacement (ie how many people would have died soon anyway.) Let's take a look using the

Hum Hain Karachi

humhainkarachi

#DisplacementResearch at @KarachiUrbanLab has shown that many people in Karachi live in fear and with the threat of eviction for years before an actual eviction occurs, as in the case

Jeremy P. Barker

jaybark7

79.5 Million. 1 in 97. Those numbers are huge. They are those forcibly displaced. 26 million refugees. 45 million internally displaced. In the immensity of those numbers, don’t forget to

Eric Hanss

hanss_eric

I see lots of people dragging this Op Ed disguised as an intellectual contribution to the study of urban wealth extraction and displacement, thought I might join in!https://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/1345392735151382529 The scene

PLC

Humble_Analysis

Officially, the CDC shows 335K excess deaths in 2020. But, something is very wrong with their baseline expected deaths. For some reason, they "expected" mortality to decline this year -

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

A bit late here (had shoulder surgery), but @MattBruenig wrote a worthwhile piece on how we structure unemployment insurance. You should read it. Shockingly, I do take issue with this

Guilaine Kinouani

KGuilaine

I have never thought the distinction we make betwn colonialism & enslavement is particularly useful esp. when thinking about Africa. Colonialism necessary entails enslavement. Whiteness likes to change terminology to

Mike Madrid

madrid_mike

Trumpism can not be defeated by conventional political means. Defeating Trump was the easy part, Trumpism will not be eradicated by any election, campaign or political process.https://twitter.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1340123333799645186 Th

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