APEC is a forum for U.S. business interests to strategize with their counterparts from around the Pacific Rim about how to further exploit workers and the environment for profit.

Prior to the zeitgeist of the term “Hostile Architecture” there was a long history of exclusionary and defensive design. Large walls and moats seem like odd historic hiccups, romanticized in media and history, but nevertheless served to keep certain people in and others out. Societies have since found far more subtle ways to tell people they are not welcome in a space.

To help us celebrate, we are asking 44 people to donate $44 (or more) on our birthday, and help us raise $1,979, a number that symbolizes the year of our founding.

We are witnessing the genocide of Palestinians. Anti-oppression is not pro-terrorism. The slaughter of innocents is not liberation.