Sunday Reading: October 29, 2023
...to the patient organizing and education Palestinians around the world have committed themselves to—repeating the numbers, sharing the facts. The world is proving that consent for genocide cannot be bought...
Politics of Contempt
...works sixteen-hour days to give her children an elite private education. I pray, she says, and I don't allow negative energy into my home, into my space, anywhere near me....
Next Year in Tehran
...universal education at home. Thrope’s tone grows increasingly romantic and celebratory through the course of analysis, and his excitement reaches a crescendo towards the end of the introduction when he...
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...arrests, even while Santiago’s mayor has threatened to cancel the scholarships of protesters. Students have been protesting for over a year, demanding educational reforms and opposing efforts to privatize education....
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Rootless and Ruthless
...rest of the population only because of the clever marketing of the fantasy that we might, with enough hard work and expensive education, break through to those rarified circles of...
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
...mathematical and scientific literacy in the population at large, it seems unlikely education of the end-users (police) will be sufficient to enable adequate interpretation of this complex information, its probabilistic...
Seen and Unseen; An interview with the authors of a new book on police abuse footage
...plans to. There’s been worry from a lot of activists that the platform will become a hostile environment for the kind of organizing and radical education while others have made...
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...How different is the public University of Michigan from the for-profit University of Phoenix? More college students battle hunger as education and living costs rise Teaching Arabic in the US...
Reimagining Networks
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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...the money! On Prop 30, the Regents, and "fiscal stability" Despite promising election results, CA public higher education still faces uphill battle Charting rising tuition against inflation and wage growth...
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...unanimously passes divestment bill challenging Israel's human rights abuses Your parents took out loans for your education and now they're broke A bailout of the people by the people --...
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...zapatista.” “University of Texas history professor Emilio Zamora says this is the biggest advance in Mexican-American studies education in a decade.” A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist...
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
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...is profiting from the state reduction of funding for public higher education" An MLA story And then theory wept: Precarity talk and Miley's sadness BDS "love letters" Academic kindness "The...
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...safe space The academics who are treated as "less than janitors" How hedge funds are bankrupting higher education "Universities now rely…on parents, particularly those with money, time, and connections, to...