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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks to @jpygold.bsky.social for having me on the RaceClass podcast to discuss the policing of housing in LA and beyond. This podcast is such a great resource for folks interested in critical perspectives on the law. on.soundcloud.com/cxXZ5ZstJ46w... www.raceclasspodcast.com

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gunshots or Fireworks? Tracing the Spatial Diffusion of Digital Participatory Surveillance - @maxlubell.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks to Korey Tillman for a generous review of Indefensible Spaces: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Book is open access here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Akbar Shahid Ahmed reports that several members of the Biden administration explored the possibility of ethnically cleansing Gaza.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

one of the most racist people in the leadership class of the democratic party

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meanwhile, Jeffries is one of the main culprits in the party's new pattern of scamming elderly voters bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Invested Spaces in New York City - @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social, City and Community journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Snyder insists that technology is ultimately human and social. In that vein, the struggle against ever encroaching surveillance technology is also part and parcel of human struggles for equality.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

screenshot didn't capture the last gem

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

checking in on the argument...wtf...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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:

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

via @prrac.bsky.social: HUD Ignores the Notice and Comment Requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act to Further a Xenophobic Agenda

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Meanwhile, nurses at Antelope Valley Medical Center are organizing against short-staffing, part of a wave of national labor action in the medical sector.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

By the 1950s, reports from Southern California Labor Conferences praised organizers for achieving 95% unionization in the building and construction trades, with unions formed in occupations such as printers, butchers, clerks, culinary workers, teamsters, building services, barbers, and machinists.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Labor Struggles in the Antelope Valley Once dominated by the agriculture industry, the Antelope Valley had been strongly anti-union in the early 1900s. But as it grew and became economically diversified, opportunities for union campaigns multiplied and LA's union movement found receptive audiences.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Help Sustain the Institute for Palestine Studies—A Vital Pillar of Palestinian Knowledge Production palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm giving talks on Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing in LA, Berkeley, and Chicago this fall. Please reach out if you're interested in an event in 2026! Indefensible Spaces is available in print and open access digital: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Palestine resolution text rejected by the DNC:

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I recently spoke to @palumboliu.bsky.social of the podcast Speaking out of Place about my new book, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Here's a clip discussing the relationship between Los Angeles and the Antelope Valley. Full audio: speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/04/f...

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, take my book! Since June over 500 people have downloaded the free digital version of Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. You can learn more about the book here: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe.... Click download to get a free .epub or PDF to send to your ipad or kindle.

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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"This is how Trail of Tears happens and people just let it... This young 12-year-old girl in Gaza, who used Instagram to try to bring hope to people's lives. That was her whole thing. She would tell people how to survive. And they killed her." Ta-Nehisi Coates on Gaza, June 2025.

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