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Teaching at @cornellilr | The Urbanization of People: bit.ly/3BLzbJg | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

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Another with one of the longest jail terms is the city’s most visible leftist, ‘Long Hair’—organized since the 1970s in Hong Kong against the British colonial regime, multiple US imperialist wars from Iraq to Gaza, the IMF and the World Bank.

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Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months. HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low. Via HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 hklabourrights.org/research/winni…

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Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists 🔥Join our demonstration to "Free Hong Kong Political Prisoners" 45 pro-democracy activists including vocal trade unionists Carol Ng, Winnie Yu and labour advocate Leung Kwok-hung were

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists
🔥Join our demonstration to  "Free Hong Kong Political Prisoners" 

45 pro-democracy activists including vocal trade unionists Carol Ng, Winnie Yu and labour advocate Leung Kwok-hung were
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“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.” New theory just dropped, Ideas Capitalism with Florida Characteristics nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/…

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Would be a large shift if nurses is opened up as a category to international labor, particularly at a time of large departures from the nursing industry taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar…

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They already snatched her husband, but she hasn't given up 🫡 Good snapshot of one of the many ways HK has targeted progressive activism nytimes.com/2024/11/27/wor…

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11月28日,建筑工人们在湖北潜江园林青酒业办公楼的楼顶上讨薪,这是他们此次讨薪行动的第八天。

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There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Though it started only ten minutes ago, it’s already larger than the rally last weekend

There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Though it started only ten minutes ago, it’s already larger than the rally last weekend
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Korean Confederation of Trade Unions just announced they would go on an indefinite general strike until President Yoon Suk-yeol resigns

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NYU has a long track record of accepting censorship in its Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses, now it's boomeranging with a vengeance on the NYC campus

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This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the University of Washington. This would be the first Taiwan Studies graduate degree in North America (and second in the world). Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025!