The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...
With Rush University Medical Center nurses announcing that they're forming a union, check out @gabrielwinant.bsky.social's book, The Next Shift, & the Q&A I did with him last week for @chicagoreader.com that touched on careworker union organizing.
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my grandparents lived a couple blocks from there, I'd always come up with reasons to go walk over and check it out
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Excerpt of statement
Please read our statement on the ethical cloud over our Board of Trustees. Link to full statement is below.
My exact reaction
Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction In conversation with Gabriel Winant Feb 16th, 6:30 PM CT Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave Chicago, IL
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There have been a number of abductions off the streets of our neighborhood already. Free inquiry cannot take place under conditions where federal agents may harass, kidnap, or murder anyone they like.
It is an open, undenied policy of ICE and CBP to engage in racial profiling. These agencies have now killed two protestors in Minnesota this month—not to mention all the deaths in custody, violations of constitutional rights, and more.
We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant.
more brilliant supporters of critical thought in the world & at The New School who u can sign with! @katforrester.bsky.social @reproutopia.bsky.social @gabrielwinant.bsky.social @mayjeong.bsky.social @catherinelacey.bsky.social @vickyacab.bsky.social +! 🥰 what a crew! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Unrelated but what's this cool cartoon image you now have where you look sort of like a Maoist icon?
More rigorous and clear than my initial entry
And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.
Gotta get to work bright and early tomorrow at 11 pm, the sun will barely be up!
That’s the fun of it. Step on the path toward abolishing time
We should try doing just one of them year after year and really play with the clock over a generation
Featuring @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social and me
Just as the university should not be complicit in repression, it must not participate in the dissemination of falsehood! What could be a higher or more important value for an institution of learning?
Poster showing Peter Beinart and John Kirby
Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.
Oh that’s nice to hear!
Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social
It's not the same thing but Eley and Nield's effort to adjudicate the theory wars as they played out in history in the 80s-90s wound up on this point: what would you need to know to organize a factory? How would you integrate discourse, culture, political economy, etc? www.google.com/books/editio...
i'm reading peter friedlander's /the emergence of a uaw local, 1936-1939/ and it's as good as @gabrielwinant.bsky.social says.
i'm once again struck about the way that union organizers are a kind of applied sociologists (though of 1950s small-group dynamics school).
You may recall that the State Department found that Israel was deliberately blocking aid to Gaza, and the Biden administration suppressed that report and lied about its content. Kirby, as the national security spokesperson, was the central figure in that effort. www.propublica.org/article/bide...
The appointment of John Kirby to direct the Institute of Politics is shocking and disgraceful. Kirby misled the public systematically over a long period, over grave matters of life and death. He has no place in an institution committed to truthful inquiry or a democratic public sphere.
Beautiful letter, made me tear up
