Lori Flores
@loriflores.bsky.social
Professor of Latinx/labor/food/migration history @ Columbia and Tejana living in NYC. Author of GROUNDS FOR DREAMING (2016) and AWAITING THEIR FEAST (2025).
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
New York turned out, as always. So sick and heartened at the same time.
And the pièce de résistance, we have our 2025 Bookmark, arising from the LABOR's 2024 Big Book Forum featuring @loriflores.bsky.social's Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from WWII to COVID-19 (@uncpress.bsky.social).
A key reminder for the food movement. “Cruelty and dehumanization are the points of Trump’s immigration schemes. We must not lose sight of this while protesting raids in food spaces.” @loriflores.bsky.social
How US immigration raids hurt summer pleasures, from berries to barbecues
In the US, hardly a food is untouched by immigrant labor – and Ice raids will profoundly affect the food labor system
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I want you guys to understand something. There aren't 65 million immigrants in this country, but there are 65 million Latinos. They're using the same language and tactics they once used against Black people and Indigenous people. This is ethnic cleansing.
Thank you to the NYC Food Policy Center for including AWAITING THEIR FEAST on their summer reading list!
8 Books on Farming and Food Production to Add to Your Summer Reading List - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
Food production is an essential but often undocumented part of our food system. This…
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BREAKING: Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, & David Patton of Hecker Fink and Rascoe Dean of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison file a motion to take over as counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his criminal case in Tennessee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Escribí esta nota en Reforma sobre la situación en Estados Unidos: EU: Ofensiva en varios frentes reforma.com/kYjlcr
Here’s the thing. If you don’t like the fun and the challenge of 1. Reading widely 2. Going to archives 3. Searching for new sources 4. Playing around with book structure 5. Writing and revising Why are you even writing a nonfiction history book? Fame? 😆 Money? 🤣 I just don’t get it.
Megan Kate Nelson 📚@mkn.bsky.social · last yr.Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with. For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing. To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways. And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue. Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings. (🎥 Unheard Voices)
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
TRUMP NOW SAYING DEPORTING GOOD FARM AND HOTEL WORKERS IS A BAD IDEA 🤔 Suddenly he now realizes this… and ties himself into a pretzel to justify it. (Why just farms and hotels? Spoiler: donors called)
Thank you to the International Labor History Association and the journal LABOR for naming my book Awaiting Their Feast “Book of the Year” and the “Big Book of 2025,” respectively. Both huge honors.✨
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Open Letter from Concerned Faculty from Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College
BY CONCERNED FACULTY AT COLUMBIA, BARNARD, AND TEACHERS COLLEGE We are publishing this letter at the request of several AAUP members from Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College. The letter was dra…
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So happy to be included in the “Food as Voice” issue of Voices of Mexico! I discuss Mexican food’s history in New York. Disponible a la librería del CISAN UNAM
Columbia bylaws state that the president can only send police on campus to arrest protestors after consulting with the university senate. Once again, the president has neglected to follow these rules, which have been in place since 1968.
Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · last yr.At least 78 students arrested at Columbia University sit in www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJU...
“Today, we now know why they never showed Mahmoud that warrant — they didn’t have one." www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
Agents Didn't Have Warrant To Arrest Activist Mahmoud Khalil, Documents Show
The federal government defended its warrantless arrest by saying agents feared the legal permanent resident would flee.
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
The real #Coachella isn't a music festival. It's hard working farm workers who are out laboring to harvest crops. Farm workers like Cruz who shared this photo of the green pepper harvest and Salvador who shared this photo from the dates. #WeFeedYou
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
My 10 year old sister and I got Social Security payments after my father died from exposure to Agent Orange. It helped my widowed mom when the family lost his income. He paid into it his whole life. They even took it from his check while he was serving in Vietnam. Jeanine can go fuck herself.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
So many student visas have been revoked that Inside Higher Ed started mapping them
A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. @apnews.com
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
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In 2023, households led by undocumented immigrants paid $89.8 BILLION in taxes ($33.9B in state/local and $55.8B federal). They load the coffers that current Social Security recipients draw upon. Stupid (and above all cruel) decision for the #IRS to collaborate with the deportation complex.
