Sunday Reading

The Emergency State in Ethiopia:

• Destabilized regime declares state of emergency in Ethiopia
• How popular uprising became the only option
• The Irreecha massacre explained: The who, what, where and why
• Ethiopia mourns – but mourns what, exactly?
• "Ireecha massacre survivor Milkessa Midega explains how the Oromo Thanksgiving festival turned into a day of terror"
• VOA reporter's roundtable
• "Ethiopia Protesters Ramp Up Attacks on Foreign Companies"
• Is Ethiopia Unraveling?

Kerim Friedman:

• The horror is everything the GOP could tolerate about Trump
• "As A Father of Daughters"
• Death, abuse, exploitation: Taiwan’s migrant worker shame
• ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Is an Epic Fail
• Revealed: The FBI’s Secret Methods for Recruiting Informants at the Border
• ‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.'
• The Conspiracy Theorists’ Election
• Most Affected Colombians Voted for Peace, Who Voted 'No'?
• Decolonization—not western liberals—established human rights on the global agenda
• Against the Romance of Community Policing
• Donate Your Books to Prisons
• 3 Reasons to Vote for Hillary Clinton
• Nazi Drug Use
• The Fallacies of Neoliberal Protest

Ava Kofman:

• “One client was straight-up approached at the airport by FBI agents as he was returning from his honeymoon,”
• The Chelsea Manning Support Network reports that Chelsea Manning has missed three calls
• Nancy Fraser and Sarah Leonard, in conversation
• Why we need the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights
• Why we need Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Ladbrokers odds might tell us who will win the Nobel Prize in Literature 
• Some less than authorized photographs from North Korea
• Hey I'm Kim Kardashian

Jacob Remes:

• Polish women's mass protest for abortion rights is building a movement.
• What's at stake in the way we talk about Yiddish
• "Harvard’s academic resources must not extend into the realm of PR."

Reclaim UC:

• Profiting off student debt
• South Africa's insurgent students
• Against Canary Mission
• No abolition without demilitarization: Black and Muslim solidarity for ending policing worldwide
• Inside the Chicago Police Department's secret budget
• From overcrowding to uprising at California jails
• Why women joined—and didn't join—one of the largest prison strikes in US history
• A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war
• "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned."

Aaron Cantú:

• Palmyra and the Political History of Archaeology in Syria: from Colonialists to Nationalists
• The CIA Says It Can Predict Social Unrest as Early as 3 to 5 Days Out
• Inmates: officer tactics escalated peaceful protest at Kinross

Kitabet:

• The Syrian Trauma
• “I was drawn to this shimmering partition between things and the images of things.”
• ‘Do Not Resist’: A Chilling Look at The Normalization of Warrior Cops
• The Last Woman From Petaluma
• Damaging Democracy: The U.S., Fethullah Gülen, and Turkey’s Upheaval
• “A poorly kept secret in the aid industry is that it’s as much about volunteers’ experience as it is about helping victims—church camp in a disaster zone.”
• Mapping the Sounds of Greek Byzantine Churches: How Researchers Are Creating “Museums of Lost Sound”
• What Remains: Life After an Earthquake, a Tsunami and a Nuclear Meltdown
• The Destruction of Yemen’s Historic Tower Houses
• “As tension around police shootings has grown, so too has scrutiny of police dispatchers.”
• Something Uneasy in the Los Angeles Air
• "At the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida, Jesus is crucified most afternoons around5 p.m."
• Who Murdered Giulio Regeni?
• The Permanent Crisis of Housing
• “It is hard to describe to people who have never experienced a major hurricane what it’s like to go through one.”
• War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria