Solidaire Board member Alan Preston has a powerful new piece in the National Center for Family Philanthropy: “Overcoming Barriers to Giving: My Personal Story of Wealth Redistribution.”
This thoughtful article is a powerful tool in moving donors from intention to action.
🔗 bit.ly/solid-alan
A Christian economy?
Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger
Academia is uniquely open to self criticism, and academics are intensely critical of themselves and their institutions. Those who are our political enemies can and do usr that against us.
The premise of article itself is an exercise in the smugness that it purports to be against, though:
Articles like this remind me that there are people out there living in completely different experiential bubble. In my experience, academics are vulnerable to manipulation because of our tendency to want to self reflect and look inward.
This is not happening because rich people are struggling to stay rich & get richer. The existing model was working for that. It was working when there was higher workplace organization & representation through unions. Capital is just never satisfied.
hey 1 person said this in a random paper or online post so this means everyone on the left is saying it. I am a very serious person
Official and unofficial reparations requests from Antigua that emerged during and after Cellini's visit have included scholarship programs, providing funds to upkeep National Archives, requests for genealogical research support (to identify descendants of people enslaved on plantations), and requests to fund non-communicable diseases research. To date, the discounted business development courses are all that have been offered by the university. A Harvard spokesperson said that since 2019, the university had "pursued and expanded partnerships" with the University of West Indies at Five Islands and that in addition to the online courses, "faculty from both institutions have participated in conferences and programs hosted by each institution."
Pathetic. To the Antiguan people, Harvard is…offering a 10-20% discount on online business development classes.
Unsurprising but infuriating: “My job was not to use all of my skills as a historian to uncover the historical truth. My role was to hold down a desk that allowed Harvard to mislead the press about how serious they were about making reparations and confronting centuries of profiting from slavery.”
Tell the truth and get fired.
*stares directly at the camera*
“This community loved the chapter.” — Cynthia Norwood.
Power to the People, Y’all premieres today. River Run. Winston-Salem, NC.
It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
“Harvard is pursuing a more integrated strategy — placing new [right wing] faculty directly within existing departments.”
You *know* you’re enjoying academic freedom when admins start picking dudes in blue blazers, throwing them into your department meetings, & making you call them your colleague
This is a good thread, and it's worth noting that the strategy of complaining that conservative ideas are being ignored *in spite of all the attention is being paid to them* is basic right wing strategy and has been for decades. It's long been the primary way of disciplining media as well.
You won't be surprised to learn that many of these conservatives escaping the socialism of Brazil often travel back to Brazilian border towns to access the free universal healthcare system (SUS).
I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II
Yes, please
The US supported numerous authoritarian regimes in the Global South and in the Caribbean/Latin American region in the name of "anti-Communism." And we are definitely harvesting the bitter fruit of that now.
..."Black Americans led a movement to demand “our full measure of citizenship, under the broad shield of the Constitution."
Such an important part of history, yet one that so few of us were actually f*cking taught. Wonder why that could be?
"gathered in more than 50 Black Conventions. Even more signed petitions, some over 50 pages in length, demanding equal citizenship. With the possibility of radical constitutional change on the table for perhaps the first time since the nation’s founding..."
"to fight for their rights and contest the racial subjugation and oppression they continued to experience. In the South, formerly enslaved Black Southerners assembled for the first time ever, exercising rights they could not have while enslaved. From 1864 to 1869, many thousands of Black Americans"
I have to admit, I forgot about the Black Conventions, where "during the years the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were being written, debated, and ratified, Black Americans from every part of the country held conventions...”
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President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
A+ headline.
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100%. Even smug preeners find Cruz’s smug preening a bit too much. And he doesn’t seem to have ever passed a specious argument favorable for his POV that he doesn’t like. I think the others might well take turns dunking on him just to remind him he’s not the smartest guy in the room.
They cut to the reporter and I thought I was being punked. He should be giving the hot-man lessons!
Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.
Hugely important issue:
Add to that similar feelings around COVID and the lingering uncertainty over what was done, and what SHOULD have been done, along with the nurturing and blooming of a thousand post-Q conspiracies... I think these are deeply unsettled times for a lot of reasons.
