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📷📽️ 📚 Investigadora/Profe VeneCaribeña Latinxamericanista 💮ñyc 🐚mcy
BREAKING: Labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta has died at 96. bit.ly/4zZMS2h
As the New York Times put it, “Did Christopher Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis?” YES, so I wrote a book about it HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...
Did Christopher Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis? (Published 2025)
In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.
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NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
so obvious that elite education will be tech free and the rest will be taught by/with chatbots chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Join our Focused Inquiry Group on Feminist Care Practices and Pedagogies, $750 stipend. Apply by Fri, Oct 16: cuny.is/tlcfigs-2026... #thegraduatecenter
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Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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La Guaira, entre los escombros de los terremotos y el fin de la revolución www.nytimes.com/es/2026/07/0...
La Guaira, entre los escombros de los terremotos y el fin de la revolución
La destrucción física de La Guaira ha seguido al desmoronamiento del proyecto político al que activistas como Jacqueline Zúñiga han dedicado toda su vida.
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For thousands of Venezuelan New Yorkers, the devastation caused by last month's earthquakes isn't just felt miles away—it's felt here at home. Since news of the disaster broke, I've been immensely proud to see New Yorkers turn compassion into action.
the relief of having football matches to hide away from the calamities of this world
De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado. #Extractivismo #Venezuela #tutelaje otrosdialogos.colmex.mx/de-la-crisis...
OTROS DIÁLOGOS | De la crisis extractivista al extractivismo tutelado
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I'm proud of this work, and feel fortunate be at a place like @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social where criticality, nuance, thoughtfulness, and humanity are valued and expected.
Joel@sentantiq.bsky.social · 5mo agothanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social and Chief librarian Maura Smale @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for developing these draft AI Guidelines www.gc.cuny.edu/research-fac...
Egypt's first-ever World Cup win, celebrated in the World's Borough. Mabrouk Masr! Photo from @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.
How do we grieve — together and apart? Join us for an evening of shared art-making & discussion with Asilia Franklin-Phipps. March 25 | 6:30–8:30 pm Rooms 4202 & 4201 | The Graduate Center, CUNY
After the US entered #Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro and develop a cooperative relation with his successor, Delcy Rodríguez, a new chapter in Venezuela's oil legal history started. But this is a longer history. Raul Sanchez U and I explore here for TWQ 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism: between a nationalised and privatised petro-state
This article provides a critique of Venezuela’s extractivism with an emphasis on its constitutional and regulatory foundations in historical perspective. Venezuela’s extractive legislative framewor...
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This moment demands listening to Venezuelan voices and standing in solidarity with their demands for self-determination, democracy, accountability, and social justice. We call for respect for international law, the protection of civilians, and an end to all forms of repression. #Feministsolidarity
En estos momentos quizá sea necesario decir lo obvio sobre Venezuela: 1) Ninguna dictadura es aceptable. 2) Ningún bombardeo es justificable. 3) Condena absoluta al bombardeo de EEUU sobre Caracas. 4) Libertad inmediata para todas y todos los presos políticos. #Venezuela
We asked for help on these moments and many others, those kids in the first clip were 15 and 16 years old and they got trampled and murdered on camera but nobody paid attention to us.
Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.
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Taking up “the worm” as a subject and paradigm for studying visual arts. Presentations will wiggle between sonic, visual, and textual elements of worms, as a subject and as a theoretical springboard. Register here! centerforthehumanities.org/event/worms-... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver." apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
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