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Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's family and colleagues would like it shared widely that while detained, Israeli police subjected her to torture and interrogated her. They spent an hour asking about an article she wrote in 2020. They shackled her feet and hands, put her in
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solitary - a urine and cockroach-infested space - and gave her blankets with vomit on them. They kept the light on all night long and kept her room freezing. Her ear started bleeding from high blood pressure and they denied her medication. They confiscated her computer, phone,
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is yet another reason for committing to an academic boycott of Israeli universities. More details on the conditions of her arrest here:
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every piece of new scholarship she was working on, and books from her home. They also questioned her about her academic colleagues. They ask that we remain vigilant even though a judge ordered her release. Her own university facilitating the arrest through their own repression
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I hope everyone who makes a career out of the area studies project that is “Asia” in US academia – not just Korea – will read and reflect on Nam Woong’s essay. I have so much respect for their anger, their generosity, and their “gnawing sense of ‘duty’ to document the victims’
Read our translation of Nam Woong's essay:
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Shame on
@Hunter_College
for firing my friend and colleague Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda for expressing her views on Palestine on her social media account. Your actions deprive your students from learning from a principled educator and translator is one of the very few equipped to
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pretty wonky but Okinawa is here at the Gaza solidarity encampment at ucsd
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I've never felt more useless as a writer, but one thing that I believe is overdue is to discuss how none of our fields, including Japanese History where I was trained, can feign ignorance or detachment about the ongoing genocide in Palestine or in other parts of the world.
Check out our great new titles coming out this month, including "Waiting for the Cool Moon," by Wendy Matsumura
@wym201
#AsianStudies
#TheoryandPhilosophy
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academia is just colonizers giving each other permission to keep colonizing and then writing bad poems about how much they have suffered from being colonizers
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I could never fully grasp the responsibility that Jane (and Leah and Alice) are taking on with this project, but I do know that it's run with such care and love. it's hard enough tracking eSims so they don't run out. let's donate and take one worry off their shoulders!!!
after 7 months of sending eSims, we are now keeping 3000+ eSims active.
the monthly cost is more than $100K CAD.
in order to keep up the pace, we need to raise more funds. thank you everyone!
#ConnectingGaza
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Messages will go out, but
@uc_faculty
thanks the 833 TT faculty who pledged to cancel classes, withhold labor, and talk to each other and your students in order to honor the picket line. You weakened one of UCOP's favorite tactics of pitting academic workers against each other.
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I also resigned from the executive committee of UCSD's Critical Gender Studies program on Monday. Thank you to
@KashmirScholars
for allowing me to share why, and to share how I think about connections between my own positionality and Kashmir:
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UCSD faculty wrote a letter in solidarity with 67 grad workers rep by
@uaw2865
who are facing disciplinary action through a student conduct process for engaging in a demo. Endorsed by our Faculty Association (SDFA), it is open to UC and non-UC faculty:
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What the heck is “A People’s History of Okinawa” doing in
@workshops4gaza
, you ask…First, the flyer w/an embarrassingly large photo:
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can you believe they are still asking for a 'diversity statement' after bringing in riot cops who aimed guns at students protesting the genocide of the Palestinian people?
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just observing as a faculty from a different institution, but it‘s hard to disagree. i’m scared and angry for these students that their university seems more than willing to inflict harm upon them
It’s not enough that SJP and JVP were suspended. it’s not enough that faculty talks about Palestine (including an edward said memorial lecture) get cancelled. it’s not enough that we get doxxing trucks.
they would gladly let one of us die if it meant protecting their donors.
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these presidents are going to kill somebody
Roughly 50 state troopers in riot gear have arrived, seven of which are on horseback.
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Important critique from "Asians and Asian Americans in Support of Palestine and Rejecting Zionism" about how "anti-Asian hate/stop AAPI hate" is weaponized in service of support for Zionism and policing. They call on API council to reject award from JCRC:
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I thought it was noteworthy that one of the banners (partially visible) was an implicit critique of Hiroshima city’s self-crafted image as a city of peace and stated, Liberation before peace: Free Palestine
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This afternoon, the UC Council of Faculty Associations (CUCFA)
@uc_faculty
the Santa Cruz Faculty Association (SCFA) sent a cease and desist letter to UC Labor Relations regarding UCOP’s attempts to circulate and collect responses on the “Attestation Form for Faculty.”
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beware of the scholar who weaponizes their 'poc' identity to center their own suffering to distract, but also to take advantage of this moment for their own gain. they have likely left many ppl in their wake and will cont. to accrue more power by appealing to white liberal guilt
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UC chancellors, president, and regents out of fucking control
Look at these goons ready to go off on some college students
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775 TT faculty pledge to respect the
@UCAFT
picket line, which means not coming to campus except to join the picket, not teaching, not responding to work-related emails, and not conducting UC-related service. Can we get to 800?
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UC Berkeley sorry I told everyone that the search committee fell asleep at my interview at the AHA when I was a tiny graduate student on my first job market cycle and ruined that conference for me. forgive me for bad-mouthing you. hire me so I can stay at these archives forever
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Devastating critique of UCSD Anthropology dept faculty by its grads, esp about its invitation of Uziel, former Dir of Excavations in Silwan, for a job talk on March 7th. They demand end to dept. rel w/U of Haifa and Israel Antiquities Authority.
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The acknowledgements and introduction to Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire has been published to the
@DukePress
website. Thank you so much to everyone who made writing it possible.
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no money for COLA, or even graders but lots of money for lawyers and staff to punish strikers, apparently. I wonder how much it all amounts to...
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Did you know
@Hunter_College
that the professor you fired, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, for posting in solidarity w/Palestine, co-designed and co-directed a summer workshop for BIPOC translators at UCSD in 2023 to work against the abysmal rates of diversity in the field?
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For historians horrified by the Dan David prize as a tool to whitewash Israel's genocide, a petition expressing opposition to
@AHAhistorians
position on Palestine and a call for BDS (org by Historians4Palestine) is still open for signatures:
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Last day in Tokyo. Apparently “murderous heat” but grateful for the brilliance of friends, old and new ❤️
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Thank you to the press and to the book's translators, Asako Masubuchi, Mori Akiko, and Kohagura Kei (+ Asato Yoko and Okamoto Naomi who were there at the start). Excited and nervous for new conversations it will enable w/colleagues, friends, and my mom.
【近刊情報】
生きた労働への闘い
沖縄共同体の限界を問う
ウェンディ・マツムラ：著, 増渕 あさ子：訳, 古波藏 契：訳, 森 亜紀子：訳
琉球処分後、日本資本に対抗するため地元知識人は「沖縄」という想像の共同体を構想する。それに抗う活動を反資本主義闘争として考察。
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that Japan's settler colonialisms, ethnic cleansing campaigns, and genocidal wars are escaping scrutiny rn, and that Japan scholars have largely been spared criticism for collective silence around Israel's genocide of Palestinians says a lot about the success of 'area studies' as
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and various low level administrators and student affairs offices will continue to spew nonsense about care, well-being, healing, even safety…
Columbia threatened to call NYPD on students if they put up tents tonight, leaving them exposed to the rain.
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You may have seen this photo I posted last month from Hiroshima City: "Stop Rafah Invasion Now!!!" I happened across these demonstrators when I was in the city to pay respects to my late grandfather, a hibakusha, or people who survived the atomic bomb.
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Please add your signature to this petition imploring the Hiroshima city mayor to not invite Israel to the Peace Memorial Ceremony commemorating the victims and survivors of the US atomic bombing of the city in Aug 1945
@wym201
condoning the massacres of Palestine. We are collecting signatures to demand that Hiroshima City not invite Israel to the Peace Memorial Ceremony. Please help us by signing and spreading the word
@change_jp
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Todd Henry, who is addressed in the piece. His ardent support for his friend, Saiba Varma when her research ethics were called into question, as well as his attempt to cast me as mentally unstable during that time, shape my beliefs in this regard.I hope I’m wrong, but
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My colleague
@shaistapatel
has taught me so much about how to be in solidarity from a place that is so embedded in settler colonial power dynamics. The gaslighting that she has been subject to from fellow academics has been shocking and infuriating to witness. I support her 100%
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Ucsd has decided to sent in cops in riot gear. Unforgivable
SUPPORT URGENTLY NEEDED
COME FILM AND HOLD THE COPS ACCOUNTABLE
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Last night,
@uc_faculty
sent a letter to UCOP that hundreds of TT faculty from all 10 UC campuses signed pledging to respect
@UCAFT
picket line. See it and signatories here:
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anti-imperialist analyses. In so doing, you are reinscribing outdated, Orientalist, imperialist forms of Japanese Studies that seek to contain the study of Japan to its area studies origins. A disgusting and racist move that needs to be called out and shamed.
@Cuny4P
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1/30 Professor Huma Dar
@baalegibreel
reminds us all the time that Occupation is a state of war. Much work is still needed to understand the way that those who profit from the Indian occupation of Kashmir are intertwined materially
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decolonizing anthropology and not even a whisper about Kashmir
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No dedicated Okinawa panels at upcoming
@AASAsianStudies
(though some wonderful scholars presenting). Ours rejected, and at least one other. 2 other years I've had Okinawa panels rejected. Is it systemic, or is it me?
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Ucsd getting its own grads and post docs charged w/felonies for chalking as it plans to install license plate readers in our parking lots and intensify surveillance of our workplaces…This is why we say cops off campus
@copsoffearth
@ucftp
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connect struggles for liberation from the Japanese empire to those in Palestine. Beyond violating her first amendment rights, punishing Dr. Hofmann-Kuroda for expressing her views on Palestine suggests that scholars of decolonial Japanese studies are not equipped to engage in
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“UC Berkeley loves its radical history but ignores the fact that at every turn, this radical history was made by people who are directly opposed and undermined by the UC,” said Gottlieb.”
Read more at:
I spoke to
@Julia_Daye
about my arrest, our fight to save People’s Park, and the UC’s history of opposing student-led protest movements.
“Cops raid historic California park — again. ‘They’ve been trying to kill this park’”
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A 25 year old U.S. military serviceman was charged with sexually assaulting a 16 year old Okinawan girl. Again. The Japanese govt didn't notify prefectural authorities for three months. People think this was to prevent negative impact on elections. Democracy.
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I've been thinking about why not many Japanese history scholars seem to have much to say about the current genocide in Palestine even though for me so much of the violence perpetrated by Israel is familiar to what I teach. I think it is because even the study of war/war
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expected. but still disgusting and shameful
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what the kind of 5yr research plan should i submit to a university that called hundreds of cops to raid an encampment built to protest its complicity in genocide? where 1000 of my peers thought that this was commendable, actually?
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the gall to fly to honolulu to present for 20 min on a climate studies panel at the huge geography meeting is just😬
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love that my extremely partisan university sent a message to all faculty telling us that we should not be "political" in our classrooms throwing all policies designed to punish us into the mix the day after the world witnessed the US-funded Israel's massacre in Rafah
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shame on
@Columbia
for insinuating that protestors are somehow to blame for being skunk-sprayed because the incident was unauthorized according to policies it unilaterally changed to shut down pro-Palestine solidarity on campus
Protesters were allegedly sprayed with a hazardous chemical while attending a pro-Palestinian “divestment now” rally on Friday, according to nearly two dozen students who reported a foul smell, physical symptoms, or property damage after the protest.
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hey UC senate faculty - thanks to
@FacultyBerkeley
we learned that UC is cutting our pensions. today we hear that they are increasing out of pocket maximums for grads from $2,500 to $4,000. tuition going up for undergrads. $ only for buildings, policing, and exec pay I guess
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the “Israeli” and “Japanese” consulates are active in this project and make a mockery of radical histories of JAs who did/are working to dismantle white supremacy, settler colonialism, and imperialism out of recognition of their own communities’ suffering AND complicity.
this headline right here tells you everything you could ever need to know re: what 'STOP ASIAN HATE' was all about.
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UCSD chancellor states on record that he called in riot cops because he was afraid of what happened at UCLA being replicated but had "no idea" what happened there: "“All I knew was there was an altercation at (UCLA). I had no idea on the why it happened,” Khosla responded. WUT...
Breaking his silence, UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla explains his crackdown on a Gaza protest encampment
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So excited and appreciative for this one. One of my beloved mentors Harry Harootunian didn't hesitate when I asked him if he would be willing to do this. And wrote a whole damn lecture for us! Please join us! All proceeds to
New workshop announcement! "Colonialism and the Heritage of Genocide" (August 14, 1-2:30 PM EST) will be run by the esteemed Marxist historian Harry Harootunian. Prof. Harootunian will discuss the ongoing genocide in Palestine through the lens of the Armenian genocide (1915-16).
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though it shouldn't have to be said, students are out their with their bodies on the line to stop a genocide refusing to comply with universities that produce machines and ideas that enable Israel's genocide. they are not out there as data for your new research. stop.
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got my copy from
@openpoetrybooks
and you can too!
now is time to read Mahmoud Darwish's remarkable *Memory for Forgetfulness*—set during the Israeli shelling of Beirut—& also to consider supporting the
@Workshops4Gaza
series; you can take part in workshops while supporting Gaza families in medical need.
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funny. so a dean is able to use the university website to issue a threat to student protestors but UC regents are trying to limit departments from issuing statements opposing a genocide?
This is a Deans event. Threatening to report to Bar. "[w]e will have security present. Any student who disrupts will be reported to student conduct and a violation of the student conduct code is reported to the Bar." Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
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UC announces decision to spend millions so that everyone can "recognize and combat extremism" and promote "viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East." Talking to students about this as they read Japanese Ministry of Education's 1941 "Way of Subjects" document will be a trip
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come on ppl…starbucks? in this genocide?
Attending
@AASAsianStudies
in
#Seattle
this weekend? Stop by the Starbucks in the
@SheratonSeattle
lobby on Friday, March 15, 12:00-1:30 PM to chat with journal co-editor Mary M. McCarthy and president Laura Hein about ideas for submissions and exciting new developments at APJFF!
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I’m not holding my breath. Rather, I hope that others might read Nam Woong’s words, not minimize the violence done to them and fellow activists in the research, writing, publication, editing, and translation of the volume, Queer Korea, and “contemplate the weight of solidarity
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made our careers out of the area studies project that is “Asia” – to think collectively about ways that we can stop repeating the same cycles of extraction. As tempting as it may be to distance ourselves from this dirty project altogether, as long as we receive our paychecks from
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love how some profs frame rel w/phd students like they are giving time to them, when our own research depends structurally on their teaching labor and in many cases, their research
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I hope Okinawa scholars will also read and learn. Many of the things that the Indian state is doing in Kashmir (dispossession, surveillance, censorship, criminalization, sexual violence, genocide) are resonant with the way that Okinawans were/are treated by Japan and the US
KSCAN releases statement in defense of human rights defenders of Kashmir.
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thank you so much, Jingyi for asking questions that allowed me to talk about what it means to work on "Japan" or "Okinawa" in this moment rather than a chapter by chapter discussion about the book...is it a call-in or a call-out? listen and find out!
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the university, in departments and fields of study established in order to facilitate the interests of US empire, reality is we are part of it.
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hope faculty will collectively refuse to engage. history tells us that usually ends w/cooptation and betrayal of student demands
new minouche shafik email just dropped.
she wants to “sit down and talk” after arresting & suspending over 100+ columbia university students.
Why would we talk to someone who has made our lives miserable? She can’t even say the word Palestine.
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no one got arrested these times but I guess we are living in a new era
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Please join us at UCSD and online, 3/19 and 3/21 for artist talks for a weeklong series of events, "Living Otherwise: Perspectives on Time, Space, and Sense-Making from Okinawa."
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look at Cal Poly Humboldt criminalizing students who built community together by sharing resources and ensuring their own safety because the university chose not to provide them with housing they could afford...
California university evicts homeless students living in vehicles on campus parking lot
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when people say shit like this and then cry 'out of context,' that context will likely reveal a more horrific worldview than what is expressed in the immediate. think about the colonial violence required to arrive at 'mass suicide' in the Battle of Okinawa, for example
Yusuke Narita, a Yale economist, has pushed Japan's hottest button his suggestions that the elderly commit "mass suicide". He says his comments were "taken out of context;" his critics accuse him of hate speech
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Why are there snipers on the roof of the student heath center
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I need to sit down and read this piece on carceral foundations of stop AAPI hate frameworks..and if I were attending AAAS I would've loved to hold strategy sessions w/ppl about how we can reject this and other framings that have led our orgs to serve counter-revolutionary ends
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I have so much respect for
@shaistapatel
whose writing is as sharp as it is beautiful. This piece is for all of us whose solidarities end as soon as they threaten to break friendships and self-interest:
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Sharing UC San Diego Faculty Association's Statement on Student Protests below, which condemns UCSD's decision to send riot police to clear the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on May 6th. It condemns UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla's decision to arrest and suspend students. It calls on
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faculty at Columbia and Barnard also need to walk out en masse
JUST IN🚨: NYPD officers are preparing to raid the encampment in Columbia! Numerous officers are seen as well as 4 prisoner buses. Dozens are equipped with helmets and batons at the ready, a cop riot may break out against PEACEFUL STUDENTS PROTESTING.
Source: Columbia.SJP on
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fundraising on the backs of genocides is just A+ academia
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struggles.” I’m so thankful to the translators who have made it possible for me to read their words. Given what I’ve observed and experienced these last couple of years, I don’t really have confidence that the sincere words penned here will get through to my colleague,
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The suppression of pro-Palestinian activism in a Japanese university. This display, "No genocide in Palestine" was removed after 40 minutes. (Keio University, SFC, where cybersecurity and IT research is conducted w/Israel based partners - key industries of J corporate complicity)
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looking forward to this conversation next week about the question of Okinawan wartime collaboration, featuring a presentation by Dr. Okubo
Coming soon on May 17!
Yuri Ōkubo (University of Tokyo) will present her new research on Okinawan collaboration with discussant Wendy Matsumura (UC San Diego)!
Register by May 11 to receive the pre-circulated paper:
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Please read this testimony by a queer Japanese comrade arrested for her solidarity with Palestine and detained for one month
Translated statement below by Harajuku No. 1, a queer Japanese comrade arrested outside the Israeli embassy and detained for almost a month in Tokyo. She was released several days ago.
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are you a white man prof with $50,000 or $1,000 to give to the next genocider-in-chief? let me propose whitedudesforpalestine instead. $2,000 will get Mohammed to the halfway mark $15,000 will complete Khalid's campaign
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Also see this faculty letter in solidarity, endorsed so far by UCSD Faculty Association (SDFA), UCR Faculty Association (RFA), UCSB Faculty Association (SBFA), California Scholars for Academic Freedom, and Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education:
Unionized grad workers who protested a recent UCSD alumni event were hit with administrative violations including physical assault that could result in their dismissal. Many of the workers view it as a way to disrupt union organizing.
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thinking about a convo in class the other day, where a student commented that they were at first taken aback that the course (postwar Japan) highlighted so much suffering of ordinary people that they had never learned about before. I was surprised and asked them to elaborate,
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Japan studies colleagues - a few of us compiled a short list from what we've seen circulating of mutual aid funds for the Maui fires. If you want to donate but are overwhelmed by all the info, perhaps this can help. (it isn't comprehensive) pls share
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I truly don't care about tweaking 1 or 2 words to convince people that we have the right to speak and teach and write about the genocide in Palestine. Fed up with people who debate this endlessly. Why should I convince one more liberal who hates me that genocide is bad?
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US get your bases the fuck out of okinawa
1月9日午前11時40分、沖縄県名護市の米軍キャンプ・シュワブのゲート前では、正午の資材搬入に合わせて新基地建設に反対する市民が座り込みを始めました。
ダンプが出入りする幅約10メートルの搬入口には30人以上の警備員が隙間なく整列しています。
#沖縄 #代執行
#okinawa
#辺野古
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friendship” offered, accepted, and violated during the course of research. As I read everything that transpired prior to the Korean translation of the volume, I wondered, why move forward when folx have been so hurt already – when that solidarity and friendship had been broken?
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Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda clarifies their position as an educator, a US citizen, a Japanese-American, and someone with ties to Japan as an imperialist country to talk about why it is impossible to stand in silence against Israel and the US's atrocities in Palestine. A model, truly 🔥
Thank you Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda for your powerful words and for your courage in standing on the side of justice and liberation! What a huge loss for
@Hunter_College
and
@CUNY
community! Shame on the administration!
#CUNY4PalestineStandsWithLisa
#FreePalestine
#zionismoutofCUNY
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Had the most ridiculous dream where I password protected my coffee grinder and couldn’t figure out how to unlock it
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Shameful doesn’t even cover it
A picture taken by the student photographer
@troglodyte
.jpg on Instagram, showing Vice-Chancellor Lori Kletzer cheerfully walking her dog through the crowds of students being attacked by riot cops admin invited to our school yesterday morning, 5/31. She makes $400,000 a year.
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