Refusing to put in writing the reasons for canceling Nancy Fraser's lectures is particularly outrageous

As 100s of students were arrested for exercising their right to p/assembly in support of #Palestine, I remind Columbia University to respect academic freedoms and student’s fundamental rights. The right to p/assembly is key for people to speak out against injustices& to mobilise for #peace

Barnard College has now suspended and evicted over 1% of its total student body for nonviolent protest. These institutions are eating themselves alive, destroying their own legitimacy by targeting their best and brightest. Shame on you Laura Rosenbury.

I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..

Singing about the dark times - Sinan Antoon powerful as always: Postcards from the Underworld (New Texts Out Now) jadaliyya.com/Details/45921 via Jadaliyya

ACLU president and NYU professor Deborah Archer (threads: DeborahNArcher) withdraws as CUNY School of Law commencement speaker: “I cannot, as a leader of the nation’s oldest guardian of free expression, participate in an event in which students believe that their voices are being excluded” truthout.org/articles/stude…

On campus protests at NYU and across the US

The wonderful Aziza Ahmed - feminism @ the intersection of Law/Health; On my reading list...

#SriLanka: Ironic that IMF uses a picture of women tea estate workers here. The GoSL's IMF-approved domestic debt restructuring slashed the value of workers' retirement funds (EPF, ETF) - their only saving for old age #lka #debt

The genocide in #Gaza has not stopped, please don't look away. Israeli airstrikes keep pounding Palestinian civilians while the world tires of this story and becomes inured to the disposability of Palestinian life. nytimes.com/live/2024/06/2…

King's College first London college to halt direct investments in Israel's arms suppliers --> Companies involved in the manufacturing of cluster bombs, land mines & depleted uranium weapons used by Israel's military in Gaza will not receive investments middleeasteye.net/news/kings-col…

Some'll say there's a lot to like abt Josh Shapiro as possible VP. Yet there are imp reasons to advise Kamala Harris to go elsewhere. 1 reason, not noticed by most, is that he robustly defended PA's ban on Medicaid funding for abortion in 2022. The PA S.Ct. rules against him.

How was Isr. able to starve 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza at unprecedented speed and intensity? I answer this question in my new report. I'll be discussing my report with the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, October 18. undocs.org/a/79/171 Here's a 🧵...

How have issue linkages featured in the framing of a transnational labour mobility regime? Holding up the Global Compact for Migration, I use TWAIL sensibility to x-ray transnational labour mobility regime generation and entrenchment through linkages of sovereignty, border

Bethany Elce Phil Clark Dan Plesch Sebastian Gehrig Collective Impunity for Transition? Consenso and the International Travels of a Spanish Paradigm Sophie Baby, Daniel Kressel Daniel G Kressel & James Mark DOI: doi.org/10.1353/hum.20…

“When we see images of the desperate people under the rubble—or starving—or worse, much worse—it’s imperative to keep in mind they live, and lived, profound interior lives in which they imagined, explored, invented, and dreamed.”—Jorie Graham (Jorie Graham)

The Appall nybooks.com/online/2024/11… via The New York Review of Books interviewed by Nawal Arjini on 'poems examining the devastating conditions of the world'

“A show that might have examined the state of the nation gives us instead an examination of the state of the office.” —Nawal Arjini on Slow Horses go.nybooks.com/40IwinN

This is the most powerful response to Trump's transfer plans.