Rahim Kurwa
@rahimk.bsky.social
assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Logan Square, Chicago
January 24, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Logan Square, Chicago
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Update from the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (@prrac.bsky.social), as the Trump admin moves to end disparate impact analysis in Fair Housing:
January 22, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Update from the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (@prrac.bsky.social), as the Trump admin moves to end disparate impact analysis in Fair Housing:
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is at the Oakland Museum of CA as part of a selection of books that complement their exhibit, Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain, running through Mar 13. museumca.org/on-view/blac...
The book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
The book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is at the Oakland Museum of CA as part of a selection of books that complement their exhibit, Black Spaces: Reclaim & Remain, running through Mar 13. museumca.org/on-view/blac...
The book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
The book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
Zappa was early friends with another important Antelope Valley musical figure, Don Van Vliet, who as Captain Beefheart would go on to record Trout Mask Replica, a deraged, dadaist album that could only have come from the valley.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Zappa was early friends with another important Antelope Valley musical figure, Don Van Vliet, who as Captain Beefheart would go on to record Trout Mask Replica, a deraged, dadaist album that could only have come from the valley.
Early in his musical career, he started a band, The Blackouts, made up of white, Mexican, and Black youth in the valley. Opposition to the band's integration made it hard to book gigs in the valley. Their heyday came in 1957, when they opened at the NAACP Festival of Stars at the Shrine Hall in LA.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Early in his musical career, he started a band, The Blackouts, made up of white, Mexican, and Black youth in the valley. Opposition to the band's integration made it hard to book gigs in the valley. Their heyday came in 1957, when they opened at the NAACP Festival of Stars at the Shrine Hall in LA.
Zappa's family moved to the Antelope Valley when his father got a job at Edwards Air Force Base. As a chemist, his father had worked on deadly weapons like mustard gas, and for a time the family kept gas masks at home.
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Zappa's family moved to the Antelope Valley when his father got a job at Edwards Air Force Base. As a chemist, his father had worked on deadly weapons like mustard gas, and for a time the family kept gas masks at home.
Fascism begins at home
December 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Fascism begins at home
Core and Periphery / Housed and Unhoused: Housing Justice Struggles Across Los Angeles
Thurs, Nov 6 at 12:30pm
Bunche Center Black Forum, Haines Hall at UCLA
Thurs, Nov 6 at 12:30pm
Bunche Center Black Forum, Haines Hall at UCLA
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Core and Periphery / Housed and Unhoused: Housing Justice Struggles Across Los Angeles
Thurs, Nov 6 at 12:30pm
Bunche Center Black Forum, Haines Hall at UCLA
Thurs, Nov 6 at 12:30pm
Bunche Center Black Forum, Haines Hall at UCLA
Next week I'll be giving a book talk and participating in a panel on housing justice at UCLA. Both events are free and open to the public, so please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Next week I'll be giving a book talk and participating in a panel on housing justice at UCLA. Both events are free and open to the public, so please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
Back then, people resisted Smith. An organization called Mobilization for Democracy grew to resist Smith’s fascist agenda and show that the public opposed his ideas. Here are some photos of their amazing work.
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Back then, people resisted Smith. An organization called Mobilization for Democracy grew to resist Smith’s fascist agenda and show that the public opposed his ideas. Here are some photos of their amazing work.
Among his platform’s policies was a pledge to deport immigrants so that “stop immigration in order that American jobs and American houses may be safeguarded for American citizens.” Today, that language is now essentially federal government policy.
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Among his platform’s policies was a pledge to deport immigrants so that “stop immigration in order that American jobs and American houses may be safeguarded for American citizens.” Today, that language is now essentially federal government policy.
The fascist history of today’s anti-immigrant housing policy:
theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The fascist history of today’s anti-immigrant housing policy:
theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...
In the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith became known as the country’s “most infamous American fascist,” campaigning for president on the America First ticket and advancing a Christian Nationalist platform.
By February of 2024, 56% of Republicans supported a ceasefire. There's no way to spin Biden and the Democratic Party's willful complicity with genocide here.
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
By February of 2024, 56% of Republicans supported a ceasefire. There's no way to spin Biden and the Democratic Party's willful complicity with genocide here.
Total shot in the dark but does anyone have a copy of this pamphlet?
Los Angeles Against Gerald L. K. Smith: How a City Organized to Combat Native Fascism!
Published by Mobilization for Democracy in 1945
Los Angeles Against Gerald L. K. Smith: How a City Organized to Combat Native Fascism!
Published by Mobilization for Democracy in 1945
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Total shot in the dark but does anyone have a copy of this pamphlet?
Los Angeles Against Gerald L. K. Smith: How a City Organized to Combat Native Fascism!
Published by Mobilization for Democracy in 1945
Los Angeles Against Gerald L. K. Smith: How a City Organized to Combat Native Fascism!
Published by Mobilization for Democracy in 1945
On Wednesday at 12pm PST, I'll be joining CSU San Bernardino's virtual conversation on policing series to talk about Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. This is an open zoom event at: csusb.zoom.us/j/89247287522. Find out more here: www.csusb.edu/event/590732.
October 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On Wednesday at 12pm PST, I'll be joining CSU San Bernardino's virtual conversation on policing series to talk about Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. This is an open zoom event at: csusb.zoom.us/j/89247287522. Find out more here: www.csusb.edu/event/590732.
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...
www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...
October 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...
www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...
I think its wrong to presume his econ policy was very good. For ex: his incredible successes on poverty, esp. child poverty, expired, so his term ended with higher poverty rates than it began. Its not surprising that an admin that presided over increases in poverty might lose re-election.
September 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think its wrong to presume his econ policy was very good. For ex: his incredible successes on poverty, esp. child poverty, expired, so his term ended with higher poverty rates than it began. Its not surprising that an admin that presided over increases in poverty might lose re-election.
I'm joining CSU San Bernardino for its Conversations on Race and Policing on Oct 8 at 12 PST, on Zoom: csusb.zoom.us/j/89247287522. The fall series includes talks on Ferguson with Stefan Bradley and Copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social. Check out the series and event archive www.csusb.edu/corp
September 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm joining CSU San Bernardino for its Conversations on Race and Policing on Oct 8 at 12 PST, on Zoom: csusb.zoom.us/j/89247287522. The fall series includes talks on Ferguson with Stefan Bradley and Copaganda with @equalityalec.bsky.social. Check out the series and event archive www.csusb.edu/corp
via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda
September 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda
Meanwhile, nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center are organizing against short-staffing, part of a wave of national labor action in the medical sector.
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Meanwhile, nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center are organizing against short-staffing, part of a wave of national labor action in the medical sector.
Now, drivers working for an Amazon subcontractor have led a unionization campaign that has forced the aiming to force recognition that Amazon is their legal employer. This is a key step towards defeating Amazon and other employers use of subcontracting to make unionization impossible.
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Now, drivers working for an Amazon subcontractor have led a unionization campaign that has forced the aiming to force recognition that Amazon is their legal employer. This is a key step towards defeating Amazon and other employers use of subcontracting to make unionization impossible.
Today, however, the Antelope Valley is back at the forefront of labor struggle. Major retailers have built warehouses and distribution centers to help deliver their products into Los Angeles easily. But working conditions are unbearable, with workers suffering in extreme heat in desert warehouses.
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today, however, the Antelope Valley is back at the forefront of labor struggle. Major retailers have built warehouses and distribution centers to help deliver their products into Los Angeles easily. But working conditions are unbearable, with workers suffering in extreme heat in desert warehouses.