timkumfer

training the next gen of scholar-activists @IPS_DC // building tenant and worker power @_ONEDC // researching cities, housing, and social movements

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@gabrielwinant a real lost opportunity https://t.co/zcp4BQ7Gtt

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@samhaselby this is a profoundly disingenuous read that ignores her actual claim in the essay re: corporate DEI initiatives.

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@walterbenn @nikhil_palsingh This is not true at all. The last chapter of KYT’s book From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation is an explicit defense of socialism, the Marxist tradition, and multi-racial working class organizing. Based on my charitable reading of your work, I think you might even like it!

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@MattNoahSmith In a similar vein, here is Jameson’s 20th C. Marxist Theory syllabus from 2010. If I remember correctly we made it to Debord.

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

NEW: Trump’s military takeover of Washington has revived the fight for D.C. statehood. To ensure our collective safety, we must grant the people of D.C. the ability to govern themselves.

IPS scholar Tim Kumfer: https://t.co/lwM0mkCUng

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"Support for D.C.’s right to determine its future must become part of that broader fight. It’s the right thing to do, and it may be the only way to ensure our collective safety." -- @timkumfer

https://t.co/h0t1BEVcvZ

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@_TimBarker We couldn’t agree more https://t.co/VVSG9UpQ67

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

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[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

Applications are open until 3/21 for the IPS New Mexico Fellowship!

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✍️ Learn more, share, and apply: https://t.co/22zCDe1xUL

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“It’s in Our Hands to Build Our Country in Our Image”: Josephine Butler, DC Statehood, and the Everyday Work of Emancipation https://t.co/oYC41000EV

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@gavinmuellerphd selections from Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate

[Greater Greater Washington @ggwash]

Federal City Shelter has now been serving Washingtonians for 40 years. Learn about its history and why its services are still so vital: https://t.co/PQkKZSw0yu

[UHA @UrbanHistoryA]

The Adams Morgan Organization "neighborhood experiment drew on both Black Power ideals of self-determination and New Left impulses for participatory democracy" notes Timothy Kumfer who explores AMO's 1970s fight against "reverse block busting"
https://t.co/ogXMe1qJm2 @DCHistory

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

Two miles from the White House, 'Black Land News' forwarded a bold vision of political, economic, and cultural autonomy inspired by African decolonization struggles. https://t.co/APwicvQdgB