Also check out this response by @lwinling on the importance of recognizing intervening processes and mechanisms leading to the present day - https://t.co/LaMdOeyjLz 10/10
Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! https://t.co/10XESm7Ddi 1/
But it means that racial differentiation and exploitation structures housing markets and policies in fundamental ways that go beyond any one process or actor. 9/
NEW: ICE is filing declarations in multiple cases admitting they don't have power to terminate student status, so students whose student records (SEVIS) are terminated remain in valid status. This means colleges disenrolling students (a majority) are punishing them for no reason.
The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. https://t.co/5k5t9RYYC2
Ranjani Srinivasan is a PhD student in Urban Planning who was recently forced to flee the U.S. after being targeted for her support for Palestine. After the government terminated their visa and SEVIS status, Columbia unnecessarily disenrolled Ranjani...
Trump targets immigrant and campus pro-Palestine left first because it’s perfect wedge issue w/ libs who’ve demonized the same groups. As lib institutions capitulate the repression will generalize. We need leaders to fill the void and lead the fight against the authoritarian turn
SWC stands by Ranjani Srinivasan, yet another union member targeted by the Trump administration and abandoned by our employer Columbia University. Columbia WAS complicit. Read more:🧵
As Trump strips our rights and makes it hard to live in DC, Mayor Bowser & the landlord lobby are pushing a bill that would make it even harder for renters
📣 RALLY 3/18 at 10am to save TOPA and tenant protections from the Mayor’s RENTAL Act
RSVP: https://t.co/HNjIO3l3UV
Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵