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Michael Galant

@michael-galant.bsky.social

Left internationalism; IMF & sanctions policy @ CEPR; Secretariat and NIEO @ Progressive International; DSA IC; Opinions my own (he/him)

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · last yr.

Overwhelmed with pride and awe for my wife who dedicated countless hours and tears to this organizing effort. She was laid off before this day could come, but her commitment hasn't waned a bit. Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize

Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · 3y ago

Barbie, Oppenheimer — I hear we’re all fighting about movie politics so I wrote about the great tradition of radical, anti-colonial filmmaking that is Third Cinema https://jacobin.com/2023/08/third-cinema-global-south-film-anti-imperialism-decolonization

For Truly Radical Filmmaking, Look to Third Cinema

During the late 1960s, two leftist Argentine filmmakers wrote a manifesto that called for a new type of filmmaking known as “Third Cinema.” This movement led to the creation of some of the most ra...

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · 3y ago

The Assad Anti-Normalization Act would “punish millions of innocent Syrians.” “The Biden administration should be lifting economic sanctions on Syria, not imposing new ones. The Syrian people have suffered enough.” https://t.co/kZa2wC26m5

Tightening Syria sanctions will only heighten civilian suffering

Nearly 10,000 Syrians have died as a result of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Turkey-Syria border area in February. As tragic as that figure is, the toll might have been even higher i…

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · 3y ago

Bob Menendez claims sanctions aren’t to blame for economic problems in 🇨🇺 & 🇻🇪 Today, 50+ leading scholars including Jayati Ghosh, Ha-Joon Chang, Jomo, and Martin Guzman told him to “stop spreading the false narrative” https://t.co/tL13dGdysm

Top economists say Sen. Menendez spreading fake news on sanctions - Responsible Statecraft

A new letter with more than 50 signatories implores the lawmaker to stop using his power to maintain a cruel US policy in Venezuela.

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · 3y ago

Nothing to see here, just Biden nominating Elliot fucking Abrams https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

Biden nominates controversial former Trump-appointee to Public Diplomacy Commission | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States Advisor...

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Michael Galant@michael-galant.bsky.social · 3y ago

Everyone should read Economic and Monetary Sovereignty In 21st Century Africa. Very glad to be able to run this excerpt. https://progressive.international/blueprint/3d6b855b-c0ff-474f-b041-096a9c6a51bd-ben-gadha-kaboub-koddenbrock-mahmoud-samba-sylla-africas-money-in-an-nieo/en/

Ben Gadha, Kaboub, Koddenbrock, Mahmoud, & Samba Sylla: Africa's Money in an NIEO

Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla on the recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies — and the ways that African nations are resistin...

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