“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
🚨 300 tickets sold!
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social
🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
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Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!
Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge’s Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students
Hoooooly shit. I'm curious/concerned (especially as an Illinoisan) as to what Trump's retribution will be.
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.
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The deliberate exclusion of Palestinians from the absurd Trump-Netanyahu peace plan is just one more piece of evidence that if you don’t see what’s happening in Gaza as genocide, you are not a serious person.
And who gives a shit what Egypt and the UAE think?
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Pic from a comrade - Rutgers police in riot gear preparing to respond to a student protest today. No arrests but RUPD with an absurd response.
NYU and Columbia in a race to the bottom.
Stanford caving in to genocide denialism. I’m shocked…
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
Boycott the @historians.org
“Careful deliberation” what a joke
Phish N1 at MSG. Not the best NYE run show we’ve seen, but it’s never a bad time with friends.
That kind of rainy night. Also, we see your blanket and don’t care.
Rutgers FJP hosted a teach in with Joan Scott, Jonathan Wallace, Jonathan Feingold, and Judith Surkis on BDS and academic freedom. #palestine #bds
youtu.be/Ttat3-hC1EY
It’s a genocide. Biden did much more than just abet it.
A former Israeli defense minister who once served in Netanyahu’s
cabinet had accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
“They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...
Ceasefire is whatever Israel and the US want it to be. Or, fuck the rules based international order…or whatever.
Ah, yes, a newspaper with a superb and noted track record at getting Middle East analysis right.
That would be considerably better!
Monday 12/2 @ 3:30-5:30 pm
The Department of Africana Studies Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book talk & conversation w/ Professor Noura Erakat of Africana Studies & Criminal Justice
Teleconference Lecture Hall
Alexander Library, 4th floor
College Avenue
RSVP: rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Migrant workers face ‘cycle of abuse’ in Saudi Arabia before World Cup, UN told. “Saudi Arabia’s treatment of migrant workers encourages whimsical and egregious human and labour rights violations.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...
I wish our students ran the Democratic Party.
Catherine Liu @bureaucat.bsky.social on liberal elites. Fantastic
youtu.be/Ia6m3pIIS2k?...
