Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Gabriela Leandro Pereira - V. Mitch McEwen - Laleh Khalili. The City of Our Dreaming. October 30. Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities. Register for in person or online. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in...
My nieces east of Atlanta have missed school all week, and my 83-year-old mother hasn’t been able to leave the house, open a window or run the air conditioner since Saturday PM — but at least the company that set its chlorine ablaze can deliver increasing returns to its private-equity shareholders.
Private equity barons just pocketed as much as $850 million from the company behind this week’s massive chemical blast in Georgia.
“Where does humanitarianism end and business begin?” Robert Ackerman, immigration attache at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, 1988 apnews.com/article/sout...
Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
“We saw paperwork, we did not see children,” he said, “and we did not have the resources to go out and investigate the background and find out where this child came from.” Paperwork, not children.
This entire story is horrific. Babies and children stolen from South Korea so couples in Europe and the U.S. could have children.
“The Korean adoptee diaspora of around 200,000 children is thought to be the largest in the world. At the peak in the 1970s and ‘80s, South Korea was sending out babies by the hundreds per month.” apnews.com/article/sout...
Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
Social media and virality isn't the big thing that changed. Wealth inequality, and the downstream effects of neoliberal defunding of basically all public goods, is the big change. A few stakeholders now wield so much power that mass protests on-par with decades past are less of a counterweight.
Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.