If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?

If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?

A stretch of the Mississippi River once called "Plantation Country" is now the "Petrochemical Corridor", known to those who breathe its toxic air...

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'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland

'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland

On 2 June 2020, the PPB deployed large amounts of tear gas in an attempt to force protestors to withdraw from the streets and squares of downtown...

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Russian Strike on Kyiv TV Tower

Russian Strike on Kyiv TV Tower

On 1 March 2022, Russia launched a missile strike on the Kyiv TV tower. The missiles targeting the TV tower landed on the territory known as Babyn...

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A City Within a Building: Mariupol Drama Theater

A City Within a Building: Mariupol Drama Theater

Before it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, the Mariupol Theater was a key refuge in the besieged city, a unique site of solidarity and...

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The Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Ukraine

The Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Ukraine

In late summer of 2014, the Ukrainian Armed Forces battled pro-Russian separatists for control of the town of Ilovaisk, in the border region of...

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The Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments

The Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments

We examined videos from the 2008–2009 Gaza conflict, and from Fallujah, Iraq, where US forces had deployed against the Iraqi army in white...

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Rafah: al Tannur Neighbourhood Strike Methodology

Rafah: al Tannur Neighbourhood Strike Methodology

Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture (FA) were denied entry into the Gaza strip, and as such our investigation into the bombardment of...

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Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coast Guard

Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coast Guard

On 6 November 2017, a rescue vessel operated by the NGO Sea Watch (SW) and a patrol vessel of the Libyan coastguard were both en route towards a...

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Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia

The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political...

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The Seizure of the Iuventa

The Seizure of the Iuventa

The Iuventa has rescued over ten thousand people from the Mediterranean since it began operating in 2016. When the vessel was impounded by Italian...

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Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest

Since Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of Brazil in 2019, vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and...

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Drone Strike in Mir Ali

Drone Strike in Mir Ali

On 4 October 2010, a home on the outskirts of Mir Ali, North Waziristan, was struck by several missiles. The attack killed five people, including...

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The Hanau Terror Attack: The Emergency Exit

The Hanau Terror Attack: The Emergency Exit

On 19 February 2020 in Hanau, Germany, nine people were murdered in a racist terror attack. The victims were Said Nesar Hashemi, Sedat Gürbüz...

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Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024

Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have...

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Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta

Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In...

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Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza

Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza

Since 2014, the clearing and bulldozing of agricultural and residential lands by the Israel military close to the eastern border of Gaza has been...

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The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas

Shortly after midnight on 18 September 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered in Athens, in his home neighbourhood of...

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Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah

Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah

On July 14 2018, in Gaza City, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, two Palestinian teenagers climbed onto the rooftop of the al-Katibah...

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No Traces of Life

No Traces of Life

Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...

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Knock on the Roof: Drone Strike in Beit Lahiya

Knock on the Roof: Drone Strike in Beit Lahiya

In the early hours of 9 January 2009, a missile struck the Salha family’s home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Under the direction of Fayez and Noor, we...

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