AER 112: BDS Boston makes a map and chaos ensues

*I was invited by friend of the podcast Justin Podur to discuss the very excellent work of the Mapping Project* In June 2022, a small activist group in Boston created mapliberation.org, a project mapping primarily policing institutions in Massechussetts and their connections to corporations, organizations, and politicians who are implicated in the prison-industry complex, in throwing people out of their homes to create investment opportunities, in grabbing Indigenous land, in colonizing Palestinian land, and other harms. When the website came out, the very institutions discussed in the mapping project unleashed a storm of criticism, bullied them off of two servers, and hurled a wide ranging set of ridiculous accusations. A roundup of the mapping project and the “freakout” about it. Watch the episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyLPioTX-o&t=1378s&ab_channel=JustinPodur