Harvard graduate workers strike to demand living wages, protection for international students against ICE and for academic freedom Picket lines went up April 21 at Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School, as graduate students indefinitely halted teaching, grading and research.

Harvard graduate workers strike to demand living wages, protection for international students against ICE and for academic freedom - World Socialist Web Site

#learning #higher education #education

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.

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UN’s landmark slavery ruling energises African Union’s fight for reparations Despite resistance from states who had role in chattel slavery, many feel this is an idea whose time has come

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(PDF) A plan for black American reparations Analysis PDF | On Mar 23, 2026, A Kirsten Mullen and others published A plan for black American reparations Analysis | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Just out today, our new paper on how to execute a program for black reparations in the United States by Kirsten Mullen, Eugene Richardson, Mary Bassett, and yours truly published in BMJ Global Health. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A plan for black American reparations The frequent criticism of a programme of reparations for Black Americans is that, however justified, no feasible blueprint exists for its implementation. We provide a detailed outline of a viable plan...

New paper from our founding director @sandydarity.bsky.social published in BMJ Global Health! Outlines how to evaluate plans for black reparations in the USA: gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

Drawing on five case studies—by @solar--punk.bsky.social and Mary T. Bassett, among others—a new supplement published in BMJ Global Health proposes guiding principles for designing reparative programs that center affected communities, uphold dignity, and ensure nonrecurrence.

Reparations and distributive justice: the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission

@solar--punk.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social & team

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I'm excited to announce this new dossier on reparations, published in the BMJ Global Health. Five case studies covering damages related to slavery, conflict-related sexual violence, climate change, racial injustice and structural adjustment. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

Chasing Freedom 'Intimate and epic, Chasing Freedom will teach you more about the legacies of colonialism than a hundred op-eds or a dozen textbooks' SATHNAM SANGHERA, author of Empireland In my home country, they c...

After years of talking about this book I am sooo excited to have ordered Chasing Freedom by Simukai Chigudu. Despite not being allowed to read any of it (I've tried), I know everyone is going to be talking about this in 2026.

Gift your future self & pre-order www.penguin.co.uk/books/448455...

Brilliant article on #solarpunk by @feralyogi.bsky.social

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Really insightful and thorough analysis of solarpunk—very glad to see this kind of serious treatment!

(agree with nearly all the points, except I think solarpunk *is* Luddite in its anti-industrialism)

@aeon.co

Returning for the 3rd year via @mcgillspgh.bsky.social Summer Institutes in Global Health:

Reimagining Global Health

Online course, June 8 - 12

Course agenda available at:

www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

Representations of an #Ebola ‘outbreak’ through Story Technologies

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#STS #IDSky #episky #IDModelling #GlobalHealth

Launching Reckoning Science We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
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Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.

Overlooked toll of climate change on migrant children in the Americas - Nature Climate Change Climate change drives displacement and migration across the Americas, particularly exposing Latin American and Caribbean children to compounded health risks. We explore these health impacts, identify ...

Overlooked toll of climate change on
migrant children in the Americas

@natclimate.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate Change, Loss and Damage, and Habitability • The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Join Eugene Richardson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a discussion on...

Join us for a seminar on #Climate Change, #LossAndDamage, and #Habitability. Nov 5 at 5:30pm ET @harvard.edu

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Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would physically involve players in the action

Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s

Our new theory of COUNTERADAPTATION
with @juemos.bsky.social

Preprint available here:
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New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Is "Social Science" an Oxymoron? Will That Ever Change?

Is "Social Science" an Oxymoron?

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Nations must act on climate change or could be held responsible, top U.N. court rules The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

Today's good news.

I am proud to have written one of the expert reports supporting the people of Vanuatu.
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Uneven Ground: Inequality and Planetary Health Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?

Uneven ground: Inequality and planetary health

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Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rules Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution

“Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rules.
Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution.” #ClimateCrisis

This July 4, the Ultimate Act of Patriotism Is Calling for Reparations Robert Wood Johnson Foundation head Dr. Richard E. Besser and board member Ryan P. Haygood call for the fulfillment of America’s promise.

This July 4, the Ultimate Act of Patriotism Is Calling for Reparations.

Read @ryanphaygood.bsky.social and Dr Rich Besser’s important OpEd -a call to for America to live up to its promise.

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The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Hurricane-hit Grenadians see climate change and reparations as one struggle Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery

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Please join me next week for a virtual book talk on THE BIG MYTH at the Harvard Kennedy School:
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

People protest calling for climate reparations

The nations that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis are being offered paltry sums that are disproportionate to both the loss and damage endured and their contribution to the problem.

What would a fairer response look like?
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor...there is no other way."