I keep seeing the line 'EU is having vaccine problems because it was too slow in negotiating contracts' repeated in 🇬🇧&🇺🇸 media.
I want to push back on this narrative because I think it's missing where real EU-level mistakes lie. Let's review what happened in past year (🧵1/17)
Happy birthday to the late Aimé Césaire. Born in Martinique, Césaire later studied in Paris, where he founded the Négritude movement with Léopold Senghor and Léon Damas. His most famous works are Discourse on Colonialism and Notebook of a Return to My Native Land.
So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Brooks happen, at this moment, in this uprising? How could police keep...doing this?
So this is what I said.
Dear Fellow Macroeconomist @haralduhlig,
My friend Bernice's dad & my friend & classmate Angela's uncle was brutally murdered on April 4,1968 at 6:01pm at the Lorraine Motel. Bernice & Angela were 5 & 4 years old. He was a protester. His name was Martin Luther King, Jr. 1/N
Devastating new homelessness numbers in Los Angeles. The homeless population in the county increased 13% to 66,433 — equivalent to a city the size of Redondo Beach. These figures DON'T take into account the effects of the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/pZ45zbItKT
"LE SOL DE LA FRANCE AFFRANCHIT L'ESCLAVE QUI LE TOUCHE"
Un court thread sur un mythe qui perdure et s'intensifie en ce moment où le négationnisme du passé composé colonial et esclavagiste de la France est à son apogée.
soooo I've spent the past 3 days combing through the @bostonpolice budget for @ACLU_Mass and FOLKS.
The MONEY. IS. WILD.
just published a blog & report on this (below), but I need to put the worst parts of this publicly on blast. Strap in. (1/10)
#DefundPolice#mapoli#bospoli
"The alternative is not more money for police training programs, hardware or oversight. It is to dramatically shrink their function. We must demand that local politicians develop non-police solutions to the problems poor people face." -@avitale: https://t.co/snYH54GSol