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James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, and author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
Really? After three Palestinian-American students were shot in New Hampshire, you're coming back to doxx and defame our students? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.
@AccuracyInMedia
Accuracy In Media
5 months
TOMORROW: The Antisemitism Accountability Project will return to Columbia University (116th & Broadway) at 9:00am. See you there!
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Katherine Franke
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Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share.
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Katherine Franke
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The lawsuit filed ag @Columbia this week claims that Columbia has maintained an environment hostile to Jewish students. Peaceful student protests are described as "pro-Hamas mobs" & the evidence of my antisemitism includes that I am teaching a course on the history of Palestine.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
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The President of @Columbia lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
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In case you don't know: @Columbia suspended students before a hearing or evidence of misconduct. The suspensions meant they had 24 hours to leave university housing, lost access to dining halls/food & to health care - never mind that they couldn't finish their classes.
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Palestine Legal
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Imagine being @Columbia and suspending your students because you think you can cow them into submission; and they release the following powerful statement: "My commitment to Palestinian liberation has only grown stronger."
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Katherine Franke
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This is the 2nd time the university cancelled this event - ostensibly on security grounds. I'm standing outside the room where it was supposed to be held, there is no security issue here. Just a bunch of disappointed students who had expected to learn something abt intern'l law.
@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
1 hour before this event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was to take place at @ColumbiaLaw , the student organizers were told that the event was cancelled by the University, for failure to comply with a new event policy.
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Katherine Franke
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@Columbia cancelled another #Palestine -focused event, this time one organized by Columbia Global Centers in Amman, Jordan. It was scheduled for this Thursday on "Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”. 🧵1/3
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
Unfortunately we have the same problem at @Columbia . The president created an anti-Semitism task force & then appointed a tax law prof who's a right wing zionist, not scholars who study anti-Semitism, to co-chair it. Still waiting for the promised Islamophobia task force ...
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Peter Beinart
5 months
Why doesn't Harvard's new antisemitism task force include its own scholars who study antisemitism + Israel-Palestine? Because those scholars won't endorse a crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech. Which is what big donors demand.
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Katherine Franke
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When pro-Israeli students spray pro-Palestinian students with skunk water - sending a number of them to the hospital - @columbia President Minouche Shafik issues no public statement condemning the attack on our students.
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Katherine Franke
5 months
1 hour before this event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was to take place at @ColumbiaLaw , the student organizers were told that the event was cancelled by the University, for failure to comply with a new event policy.
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Katherine Franke
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Katherine Franke
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We were able to get another sponsor for the event so it will still be on Thursday at 10:30am NY/6:30pm Amman. Please join us if you can. Speakers: Ardi Imseis @ArdiImseis Darryl Li @dcli Shahd Hammouri @shahdhm @ProfKFranke John Reynolds @SeanMac_R & Nahed Samour. 3/3
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Katherine Franke
4 years
WTF alert: I was supposed to give a talk today on how Zoom & other providers censor speech abt Palestinian sovereignty. It was sponsored by @USACBI & @AAUP , held on Zoom. Zoom then cancelled the event. Zoom censored an event about censorship. I must teach over Zoom every week.
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Katherine Franke
5 months
The panel promised to be a scholarly conversation abt the legacy of one of the most prominent scholars of our generation: Edward Said. Given that it was fully remote, it posed no security risk (real or imagined) to students on campus who might be uncomfortable w/ the topic. 2/3
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 years
Last time I wore a skirt was in 1994 when I interviewed for a teaching job at @UTexasLaw - the skirt didn't work, didn't get the job. The gov't's position in the #AimeeStephens case would allow employers to fire me bec I won't "dress like a girl", a huge retrenchment. #riseupoct8
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
Proud to have been 1 among 1,000s at the @jvplive protest today that shut down the Manhattan Bridge in the name of Palestinian life, dignity, and sovereignty, and an end to the genocide in Gaza.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
Finally! @OmarSShakir is giving his talk at @ColumbiaLaw . Thank you Omar for your patience with two earlier cancellations of your talk.
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Katherine Franke
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Now more than ever, universities should be protecting & defending their unique role in society as places that can generate and hold engagement with the complex histories and politics that lay below the surface of the current violence in Israel and Gaza.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
4 months
The door to my office this am: a poster listing the names of faculty and staff killed in #Gaza by Israel since 10/7/23, and the explanation of this action by faculty and staff at @BarnardCollege & @Columbia today. @Fsjp_cbt
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Katherine Franke
6 months
We tried to deliver our demands to the President, but they locked the doors to Low Library. In my 25 years at Columbia, this is the first time I've seen the President lock out her own faculty.
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Katherine Franke
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So glad this event is taking place. When we scheduled an event honoring Edward Said's legacy last November, organized thru the @Columbia Global Center in Amman, Columbia canceled the event:
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Katherine Franke
2 years
Not so fast in 👏🏼👏🏼ing the "Marriage Equality Act", it does not codify the rights secured by Obergefell, but only says that states can't refuse to recognize a valid marriage from another state if the reason is bec of the married person's sex, race, ethnicity, or nat'l origin. 🧵
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Katherine Franke
5 months
This is the room at @ColumbiaLaw where an event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was supposed to be held tonite, unpacking the int'l legal concept of "apartheid", but the university cancelled it at the last minute for "security" concerns.
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Katherine Franke
5 months
This is the 2nd time the university cancelled this event - ostensibly on security grounds. I'm standing outside the room where it was supposed to be held, there is no security issue here. Just a bunch of disappointed students who had expected to learn something abt intern'l law.
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Katherine Franke
5 months
Not wanting to be left out of the ADL messaging, @GovKathyHochul condemns calls for genocide that haven't occurred on college campuses, meanwhile we can't get @Columbia to investigate documented cases of racism, sexism, & homophobia by professors in the classroom.
@GovKathyHochul
Governor Kathy Hochul
5 months
Calls for genocide on college campuses violate New York's Human Rights Law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, & SUNY's Code of Conduct. We're prepared to take enforcement action if colleges & universities are found not in compliance. Read my letter to college presidents:
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
2 years
I am so lucky to work at a place ( @ColumbiaLaw ) that not only "lets" me teach Gender Justice, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Legal Thought - but asks me to do so every year. I'll have 65 1Ls and 55 2L/3Ls in my classes this spring. #BuildingaBetterWorld
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Katherine Franke
6 months
@Columbia & @BarnardCollege faculty held a huge protest in front of the President's office today supporting the student groups @ColumbiaSJP & @ColumbiaJVP banned by the University for speaking out for Palestinian rights, and supporting the right to academic freedom.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
@Esqueer_ Incredible. So much hatred and violence in this world. I hope you are staying safe Alejandra.
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Katherine Franke
3 months
We wrote this, and we mean business. If @Columbia is allowing itself to be captured by interests that aren't committed to our fundamental mission (or are affirmatively seeking to undermine it), we'll take our university back! @Fsjp_cbt
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 months
I'm so proud to have joined the Board of @pal_legal - please give generously to support their work which is always critically important, but especially so in this challenging time. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@pal_legal
Palestine Legal
5 months
❤️‍🔥📣This #GivingTuesday , Palestine Legal is excited to launch our end of year fundraising campaign: BOLDER TOGETHER. 🔗 Donate here: 📸 Photographer credit: @boundcast on IG
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
6 months
The published version of the Columbia faculty letter supporting our students and the principle that situating the war in Israel/Gaza in the history of the region ≠ antisemitism, citing prominent authority for doing so, please go here:
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Katherine Franke
6 months
Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share.
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Katherine Franke
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Yet when law students quietly read names of Gazans killed in recent months & that action makes some prospective students feel uncomfortable, the President of @columbia issues strong condemnation of the students' expressive conduct.
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Katherine Franke
2 months
Make no mistake, there is a larger plan here: my facilitation of a reading group on the history of Palestine is viewed as antisemitic & her teaching about gender fluidity is divisive. An uneducated population is much easier to control/manipulate/rule by authoritarian means.
@DerekWBlack
Derek W. Black
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The firing of a teacher who read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Board of Education. She says the book was about inclusiveness. They say it was a prohibited “divisive concept.”
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
2 years
When I was in elementary school girls were not allowed to play full-court basketball because - we were told - our uteruses might fall out if we ran too much. Sports have always been replete with sexism - holding us back from start to finish. Read the imp piece from @transscribe
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Katelyn Burns
2 years
For @mic , I wrote about the awful investigation into a Utah girl's sex after parents complained the athlete wasn't "feminine enough" after winning a high school championship.
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Katherine Franke
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@SarahScire Thanks for the correction ...
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Katherine Franke
6 years
This hearing is SO gender-y. The accuser was pretty much apologetic for testifying that she was sexually assaulted, while the alleged perpetrator is so angry he can't control himself.
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Katherine Franke
4 years
Nevermind, um, #Guantanamo , drone killings, Abu Ghraib, fabricating evidence to start a war in Iraq. Should I continue, cause lord knows I could?
@KeeangaYamahtta
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4 years
Why George W. Bush, the Grim Reaper ofTexas who plunged a lethal injection into 154 Texans, more than any previous governor in modern American history, get to wax poetically at funeral of John Lewis? All of American politics, in life and death, is macabre theater.
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Katherine Franke
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On the heals of a chemical attack by Israeli students on pro-Palestinian students & an admin that brings disciplinary charges against students who read the names of Gazans killed in this war or who hang a Palestinian flag out their dorm window (but not an Israeli flag), now this:
@EdWorkforceCmte
House Committee on Education & the Workforce
3 months
The Committee is expanding its antisemitism investigation to include Columbia University. @virginiafoxx sent a letter to Columbia University requesting documents related to the university's response to antisemitism on its campus⬇️
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Katherine Franke
4 years
In the 1850s images of Black people were posted by marshals seeking to send Black people into slavery under the #FugitiveSlaveAct . Not unsurprisingly this resulted in the kidnapping of free Black people, just to collect the ransom. ICE is doing it the same thing now. Horrendous.
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Hamed Aleaziz
4 years
Unprecedented: ICE is launching billboards in Pennsylvania with the faces of immigrants who have been released by local police departments under so-called sanctuary policies.
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Katherine Franke
2 years
"Tis the season of big meals"? Not so much for Columbia's Grad Students, who are striking in order to have @Columbia pay them a living wage. @C_AWDU @SW_Columbia
@Columbia
Columbia University
2 years
It's the season of big meals. Columbia's Dr. Lisa Ranzenhofer offers tips for maintaining a healthy mindset toward food and finding support over the holidays.
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Katherine Franke
6 months
704 Barnard/Columbia faculty express very strong concerns about @BarnardCollege President Laura Rosenbury aggressively censoring discussion of Israel/Gaza.
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Katherine Franke
7 months
I am honored to have joined the Boars of Directors of Palestine Legal, especially now, when their work is critically important to preserving and protecting the right to say the word “Palestine”, and acknowledge that Palestinian lives matter.
@pal_legal
Palestine Legal
7 months
As institutions grow increasingly aggressive in trying to intimidate and silence Palestinians and their allies, please remember you don't have to talk to cops, you should not consent to a search, and you don't have to let them in without a warrant.
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Katherine Franke
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150+ Columbia/Barnard Faculty have signed a letter supporting our students' right to contextualize the war in Israel/Gaza within the 75 yr occupation of Palestine - insisting that it isn't anti-Semitic to do so. Please read.
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Katherine Franke
1 month
Where has happened to the university that I used to know and be proud to be a part of?
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Katherine Franke
5 years
Thank you Reps. @Ilhan Omar and @RepRashida for speaking the truth about the occupation of Palestine, about living in the diaspora, about the humiliation of random checkpoints, dreams of being free, and about longing for a place you're not allowed to visit.
@IlhanMN
Ilhan Omar
5 years
In 2018, the Netanyahu government refused entry to Katherine Frank and my friend @VinceWarren who had arrived on a mostly-POC human rights mission.
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Katherine Franke
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Katherine Franke
2 years
So honored to have Angela Davis and Gina Dent come to my Gender Justice class today to talk about Abolition. Feminism. Now. The book manifests a political generosity that welcomes all of us to enter the conversation from where ever we are on our journey. @haymarketbooks
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Katherine Franke
1 year
So disappointing that @GovKathyHochul is digging in re #HectorLaSalle . NYers deserve better to lead the Ct of Appeals. Our top court should be a beacon of progressive legal values, not a middle of the road, or worse, tool for the status quo.
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Katherine Franke
6 months
SG Prelogar in rebuttal, urging the Court to clarify the history and tradition test, at what level of generality must there be historical precedent for a reading of the constitution? Laws banning guns by DV abusers, or dangerous ppl? "Clarify this for lower courts" #Rahimi
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Katherine Franke
2 years
I just contributed to the Columbia University Grad Student/Workers who are on strike. @SW_Columbia @Columbia is retaliating against them financially and professionally. #cuonstrike Proud to support them, you should too:
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Katherine Franke
2 years
I'm teaching a 1L class at @ColumbiaLaw , Critical Legal Thought. Critical Legal Studies is up this week. We read Mark Tushnet's Essay on Rights last class & today I showed @JeannieSGersen 's short film on The Crits today w/ Robin West's Tragic Rights. Fab!
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Katherine Franke
7 months
I have students who fear for their professional futures & for their personal safety bec they insist that we recognize the value of all lives put in peril by the war in Israel/Gaza. Please support @pal_legal 's critical work defending universal dignity:
@pal_legal
Palestine Legal
7 months
REMINDER: As we witness an unprecedented increase in attacks on advocates for Palestinian freedom, please remember to use our intake form to request our pro-bono (free) legal support or advice: . 📸 photos by: @pettystinian on IG
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Katherine Franke
3 years
Proud to have voted for @mayawiley today! Such a gift to be able to vote for a friend and someone who will be an amazing champion for all New Yorkers. If you live in NYC, early voting is ongoing - and is so easy! Go Maya! Go Vote!
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Maya Wiley
3 years
“A Wiley victory could be an important step in turning last year’s racial reckoning into real racial progress in America.” Together, we will transform our city. Make your plan to vote:
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Katherine Franke
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Query whether @Columbia is using Lavender or something similar to determine which students to target for discipline ...
@democracynow
Democracy Now!
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A recent exposé in @972mag reveals how the Israeli military used an artificial intelligence program known as Lavender to develop a "kill list" in Gaza. Journalist @yuval_abraham explains what his investigation found.
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Katherine Franke
2 years
Announcing the inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fellow at @ColumbiaLaw : Sania Anwar!!
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Katherine Franke
5 years
Nothings beats the feeling of holding your book in your hands for the first time. #Repair : Redeeming the Promise of Abolition @haymarketbooks @jelani9 @KeeangaYamahtta @Moore_Darnell Robin D.G. Kelley #Reparations
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Katherine Franke
2 years
My reflections on @Columbia University’s particular brand of predatory capitalism. Including a critique of the union as well. “Columbia University Has Lost Its Way”
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Katherine Franke
2 years
Unfortunately, SCOTUS proved me right yesterday in args in OSHA vaccine/mask mandate case: "We have reached the point where the US Supreme Court has become one of the greatest threats to public health and welfare in this country." @thenation
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Katherine Franke
3 years
Can't exactly say why, but I find this rather comforting. The combination of calm, creepiness, and irony is just what I needed.
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Katherine Franke
8 years
Sotomayor cites duBois, Baldwin, Coates, Alexander, and Guinier/Torres in blistering dissent in #SCOTUS 4th A case.
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Katherine Franke
5 years
This is how #ICE works: a trans woman from El Salvador w/ whom we're working was dragged out of bed at 6:00am for her Credible Fear Interview at Otay Mesa. She asked to have her lawyer present and was told that she'd have to wait another month or more for a CFI with her lawyer.
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Katherine Franke
2 years
Finally, the rights supposedly secured under the "Marriage Equality Act" would be better protected by finally ratifying the "Equal Rights Amendment" - at least w/r/t the rights of same-sex couples.
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Katherine Franke
5 months
🤞🏽that this event takes place. I'll be there asking hard Qs abt why/how #Apartheid applies in this context. Thanks @OmarSShakir for accommodating the challenges we're facing at @Columbia in scheduling events that take on the hardest questions in an incredibly hard time.
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Omar Shakir
5 months
We’re back on @ColumbiaLaw . Appreciate all who spoke out about last week’s cancellation—administrators have okayed my talk on Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians proceeding on Thursday, Nov 30. Register to join us at 415 PM EST in-person or virtually:
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Katherine Franke
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Katherine Franke
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An award given for best animated film about John and Yoko about war, and none of the people accepting the award, including Julian Lennon, are wearing the “Ceasefire” pins. A small gesture, but the absence of a small gesture speaks louder than its presence.
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Katherine Franke
1 year
Oral arg in #303Creative Sotomayor: This would be the first time in the Court's history that it would say a business open to the public could refuse to serve a customer based on race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Correct? Colorado: Yes. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 🫳🏽 🎤
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Katherine Franke
2 years
While the present is all abt COVID, I must confess being moved to tears as I read of an HIV vaccine: I lived thru the 1980s & lost 100s of friends to AIDS - memorial services were our primary social activity. It's with a heavy ❤️ for those we lost that we celebrate this news.
@thehill
The Hill
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First HIV vaccines administered in Moderna clinical trial
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Katherine Franke
1 year
Fantastic piece in the @nytimes this am by @JulieCSuk & @kateashaw1 on the #ERA - why we need it, hurdles to final ratification, and how significant it is that a bipartisan majority of US Senators support it!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Check it out:
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Katherine Franke
5 years
"Black lives will continue to be treated as though they do not matter until we take material steps to repair the intergenerational wreckage that slavery continues to inflict." Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations @nybooks @haymarketbooks #Repair
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Katherine Franke
6 years
A great thing happened yesterday: @JedediahSPurdy decided to join the @ColumbiaLaw faculty! Can't wait to have him as a colleague! @ColumbiaLaw is THE place for critical legal theorists! Welcome Jed!
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Katherine Franke
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Katherine Franke
1 year
That feeling when you're heading out to teach your class and it dawns on you that you're dressed just like George Santos!
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Katherine Franke
1 year
Oral arg in #303Creative : Justice Alito is resorting to KKK jokes. Ha ha ha. As if what's at stake here is funny, and isn't taking place in a context in which LGBTQ people feel like we have a target on our backs. And, ahem - Klan jokes aren't funny under any context.
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Katherine Franke
4 years
A very important series on the role of race, class, and sex in the exploitation of Black gay men.
@thrasherxy
🍉Prof. Thrasher🔻
4 years
Beyond Ed Buck: Today @BuzzFeedNews launches a MAJOR 3-part series by @PatrickStrud on drugs sexual & racism. It's an unflinching account of rich white men sexually using up Black men. "How Racism, Meth, And Sex Are Combining To Destroy Queer Black Lives"
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Katherine Franke
3 months
@ShaiDavidai - it's Franke, not Frank.
@ShaiDavidai
Shai Davidai
3 months
Prof. Katherine Frank ( @ProfKFranke ): All of your Israeli colleagues are still waiting for your response. Almost all of us served in the IDF. Professors. Post-Docs. Research associates. Administrators. Do you think we also shouldn't be allowed to be on @Columbia 's campus?
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Katherine Franke
2 years
But 1. the "Marriage Equality Act" does not require every state to allow same-sex or interracial couples to marry - leaving room for many states to limit marriage to 1 man/1 woman of the same race.
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Katherine Franke
5 years
I was interrogated & held at Tel Aviv airport for 14 hours, then deported/banned from entering #Israel bc I was a critic of Israeli #HumanRights abuses. @Columbia & US gov't did nothing. @IlhanMN is right when she says pro-Israel forces “push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
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Katherine Franke
6 years
Here's a contrast: Brett Kavanaugh screaming through a Senate hearing and explicitly insulting Dem Senators by name, and Serena Williams raising her voice a little in protest of a bad call in tennis. Her mild anger is out of order, his ballistic rage is, well, understandable.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
7 years
Has ICE become the largest human trafficker in US? "Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor"
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
3 months
Indeed, and about as genuine and effective as when @LHSummers had to apologize for saying women didn't hold top positions in science because we were, um, dumb ...
@corinneblalock
Corinne Blalock 🍉
3 months
people falling all over themselves to congratulate Larry Summers for retracting a horribly racist and completely unfounded remark 🤮
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
1 year
There are many excellent Latinx judges who are qualified to serve as chief of the NY Ct of Appeals, s/a Judges Jenny Rivera or Rolando Acosta, but they weren't put on Hochul's list bec they were not politically aligned with the governor.
@ZachReports
Zach Williams
1 year
Some of the Latino leaders demanding "fair treatment" for Hector LaSalle, whose nomination for chief judge appears doomed given lefty opposition
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
6 years
The ban of my entry illustrates (in a very minor way) the routine, daily, systematic humiliation and control of Palestinians by the Israeli government. #GettingthePalestinianTreatment
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
1 year
Oral arg in #303Creative : the convention of referring to other counsel as "My Friend, Ms x, or Mr. y" is so annoying - they don't always do this, and they clearly aren't friends. I testified in Congress sitting next to Kristen Waggoner, she is not my friend ...
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
10 months
Background rated by @ratemyskyperoom - I feel like I’ve finally really made it!
@ratemyskyperoom
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10 months
Love the couch view. Nice depth. Three windows. Great art. Minor cord violation. 9/10 @ProfKFranke
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
7 months
Happening right now on Columbia’s campus: Palestinian/Arab students and allies chanting “you cannot hide us”, while Israeli/Jewish students and allies stand facing them silently. Meanwhile the university closed the gates to the campus today, allowing entry only with a uni ID.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
3 years
So here’s a great thing: the new revised/updated version of my book Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition is now out in paperback & includes a study guide w/ questions for teachers & reading groups. Also available as an ebook. @haymarketbooks
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
4 years
Returned to @Columbia ’s campus today for the first time since March 10th. Took a university-mandated/administered COVID test & am getting ready for hybrid teaching in September. Two classes: Racial Justice Advocacy and @ColumbiaLaw and Slavery (the law school was founded in 1858)
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
7 days
These comments from Rep. Foxx are offensive on so many levels. "Inmates are running the asylum"? This is incredibly biased against people with disabilities - does she really want to characterize Columbia as an "asylum" and our students as "inmates"?
@jbrownedianis
Judith Browne Dianis
7 days
As someone who led a protest @ColumbiaLaw I can tell you @Columbia isn’t great without heat from students to do the right thing.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
3 years
Justice Sotomayor pulls no punches in calling out the necro-politics of this administration. The last days of a presidency are about locking in a legacy. We are witnessing a legacy of state-sponsored death.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
2 years
But 3. the "Marriage Equality Act" is silent as to religion-based refusals to recognize same sex or interracial marriages - and there will be many, many of these.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
6 years
Big win in 6th Cir trans discrim case today!!! Not only is trans discrim covered by Title VII but the employer’s “religious exercise would not be substantially burdened by continuing to employ Stephens without discriminating against her on the basis of sex stereotypes”!!!
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
7 years
United credit card just cancelled and card cut in half! Bam! #UnitedAirlinesAssault #unitedairlinesnomore
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 years
Any yet @IlhanMN is being selectively - and falsely - charged with anti-semitism by her colleagues. The hypocrisy of attacks ag @IlhanMN is breathtaking. There is a diff bet critiquing the State of Israel — what Rep. Omar has been doing — and discrimination against Jewish people
@RepJerryNadler
Rep. Nadler
5 years
To be clear, this tweet counts both as inane AND anti-Semitic.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
6 months
I signed - I hope other law faculty will do so as well.
@tarekzismail
tarek z. ismail
6 months
🚨U.S. law school faculty🚨 Your students are facing unprecedented repression -- harassment, retractions of job offers, threats of investigation -- for advocacy in support of Palestinians. Consider joining 135+ peers calling on Deans to protect them.
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@ProfKFranke
Katherine Franke
5 years
Most 1L law students now have a couple weeks under their belts, and for many of them the sense of "Why did I decide to come to law school? I hate this!" is setting in. Hang in there, it will get better.
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