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Teaching at @cornellilr | The Urbanization of People: | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

[@elifriedman.bsky.social @EliDFriedman]

We wrote this book to introduce how China's integration into capitalism transformed its society while catalyzing a destructive imperial rivalry with the US.

Lots of reasons for pessimism, but as we show, resistance springs eternal!

Available in June
https://t.co/mBSa7f1oSF

[James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social @jamestwotree]

This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the University of Washington. This would be the first Taiwan Studies graduate degree in North America (and second in the world). Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025!

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Goes without saying baozi are on the menu

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There's a whole restaurant in Madrid just to troll Xi

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I mean they have a Lennon Wall inside

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Don't miss this one

[Yan Long @YanLong_SOC]

My new book (Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China) drops! Wanna know how China gained capacities dealing with COVID-19? Why gay rights can be illiberal? Etc. check it out! https://t.co/GWzi4ZcdUB

[@elifriedman.bsky.social @EliDFriedman]

Coming in January, if I was in the US I would be absolutely be there! https://t.co/joG9AmdvPg

[@elifriedman.bsky.social @EliDFriedman]

NYU has a long track record of accepting censorship in its Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses, now it's boomeranging with a vengeance on the NYC campus

[NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine @NYUFJPalestine]

🚨 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🚨
NYU Faculty Arrested for Supporting Students in Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protests. Faculty Also Declared Personae Non Grata and Banned from Campus
NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024
🧵

[jawni han | 한겨울 @kimchimarx]

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions just announced they would go on an indefinite general strike until President Yoon Suk-yeol resigns

[昨天 @YesterdayBigcat]

11月28日，建筑工人们在湖北潜江园林青酒业办公楼的楼顶上讨薪，这是他们此次讨薪行动的第八天。

[@elifriedman.bsky.social @EliDFriedman]

First they call the NYPD on students, now this

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Though it started only ten minutes ago, it’s already larger than the rally last weekend

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Workers facing unpaid wages murder their manager in Zhengzhou. The stress is literally killing people

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

11月26日(发布) 河南郑州。东赵合村并城安置区二期工地，一名班组长被讨薪工人持刀杀害。
死者李鑫今年39岁，于19年承��了惠济区一处安置房建筑工地的钢筋制作等工程。
因郑州一建拖欠工资，班组6名工人找钢筋班负责人李鑫讨要工资，李鑫无力支付，最终一工人持刀直接杀死了班组长李鑫。

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Would be a large shift if nurses is opened up as a category to international labor, particularly at a time of large departures from the nursing industry

https://t.co/D9cTClWnZZ

[@elifriedman.bsky.social @EliDFriedman]

They already snatched her husband, but she hasn't given up 🫡

Good snapshot of one of the many ways HK has targeted progressive activism
https://t.co/W1YEyghSR0

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My co-author Ashley interviewed about our book, includes a post-publication update on Gaza https://t.co/PojWWN7izU

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“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”

New theory just dropped, Ideas Capitalism with Florida Characteristics
https://t.co/I26fEjJG2t

[HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @HKLabourRights]

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists
🔥Join our demonstration to "Free Hong Kong Political Prisoners"

45 pro-democracy activists including vocal trade unionists Carol Ng, Winnie Yu and labour advocate Leung Kwok-hung were convicted of "conspiracy to subvert state power" for their involvement in the 2020 primary elections and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four years and two months to ten years.
This sentencing represents a blatant act of political suppression, underscoring how authorities continue to weaponise the National Security Law to target civil society, with no indication of easing their repressive measures.
We must not remain silent. We are responsible for speaking out for the people of Hong Kong, ensuring that the 45 pro-democracy figures sentenced in the primary election case, along with others oppressed for fighting for Hong Kong’s democracy, know they are not forgotten.

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and @WorkersAntiCCP are collaborating with UK trade unionists and activists of civic organisations, including those from UNISON, PCS （ Public and Commercial Services Union ）, the British Medical Association, Borderless Movement, and Democracy for Hong Kong (D4HK). We will organise a "Free the Hong Kong 45" protest rally on Saturday, November 30.

📅Date: 30 November 2024(Saturday)
⏲️Time: 3pm
📍Venue: Embassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL

🔥Free Carol Ng, Winnie Yu, Leung Kwok-hung and all the HK47 - quash their convictions!
🔥 Free Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and all Hongkongers repressed for pro-worker and pro-democracy activity!
🔥 Free political prisoners in mainland China including feminist Sophia Huang Xueqin, workers’ rights activist Wang Jianbing, civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong, and Uyghur intellectuals Rahile Dawut, Ilham Tohti and Perhat Tursun!
🔥Freedom to organise independent trade unions and political oppositon in Hong Kong & China!

Link to statement: https://t.co/mPa9dfKgdz

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Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months.

HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low. Via @HKLabourRights https://t.co/PWn5GYAsUI

[8964 @promise__li]

Another with one of the longest jail terms is the city’s most visible leftist, ‘Long Hair’—organized since the 1970s in Hong Kong against the British colonial regime, multiple US imperialist wars from Iraq to Gaza, the IMF and the World Bank.

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PRC seems to be getting comfortable with doing a little imperialism

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

Chinese authorities have reportedly detained Peng Daxun, the leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), in an apparent bid to halt the group’s offensives against the Myanmar military. https://t.co/nCxAe2Zm6c