Elena Shih
@uhlenna
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Asst Prof of American & Ethnic Studies @brownu | Author of MANUFACTURING FREEDOM (@ucpress) & WHITE SUPREMACY and RACISM of ANTI-TRAFFICKING (@routledgebooks)
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Anti-Trafficking and “Modern Day Slavery” policies/funding cast an extraordinarily large shadow, displacing migrant and sex worker rights. In this op-ed, I discuss how global supply chain transparency efforts facilitate corporate greenwashing at the expense of worker organizing.
How worker-led organising and trade unions can counter abuse of workers in the Global South https://t.co/1pyAvexL5a — #AJOpinion, by @uhlenna
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Amidst violent crackdowns of migrant informal and bodywork in Queens, NY, we are launching "Liberation Atlas" a digital map documenting the policing of Asian migrant massage work using publicly available data and oral histories collected by @RedCanarySong's outreach team.
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Kites and candles: remembering Refaat Alareer on his birthday
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It has been ten months since I lost my mentor and dear friend, Refaat Alareer. If he were still living, he would be taking care of us. Because I am still living I need to tell his story.
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Lebanese friend of mine is trying to get information about his family & said something I didn’t even stop to consider today. He said ‘a lot of people are hesitant to answer texts right now’. What Israel did today really does change the course of how “wars” are conducted.
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Grounding Global Justice offers a transnational history of the global justice movement in the US and Mexico and reveals how farmers, urban workers and Indigenous peoples grounded their efforts to confront free-market reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice.
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TODAY! Fargo Library Book Talk for "Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in US and Mexico" (@ucpress) by @EricDLarson at the Downtown @fargolibrary, North Dakota!!! (@umassd)
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Tareq Baconi's essay from the anthology, WHAT GAZA CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE STRUGGLES THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD, has just been published on @lithub. https://t.co/h4RdT8Q9z1
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“What is abject… is radically excluded and draws me toward the place where meaning collapses… And yet, from its place of banishment, the abject does not cease challenging its masterR…
OUT TODAY! We’re pleased to announce the publication of THEIR BORDERS, OUR WORLD: BUILDING NEW SOLIDARITIES WITH PALESTINE. Edited by PalFest co-curator Mahdi Sabbagh, this anthology brings together twelve highly distinct essays on the international connections running through
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FREEDOM TO WRITE FOR PALESTINE: Mahmoud AlYazji, a young student from Gaza, reads a farewell letter to his best friend Mohammed Zaher Hammo, who was killed by Israel in November 2023 alongside his family. We extend our gratitude to Mahmoud for sharing these beautiful memories
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So exciting! Newest book, with @barbbrents and Bernadette Barton published with @NYUpress is available for pre-order and releases in November.
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Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century
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The ASA membership has spoken! The @Soc4Pal “Resolution for Justice in Palestine" has passed and become the association's "official position." Nearly 60% of those that voted did so in favor. Grateful for all the colleagues and comrades that made this victory possible!
And the text of the member resolution has been published by ASA on their website here: https://t.co/iowz998otI
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Took graduation photos a year in advance. (As of last evening, Harvard is withholding mine and @shraddha_joshi1's degrees until May of 2025, alongside 10 other graduating seniors. Look up "Palestine exception to free speech" for more info.) https://t.co/Xcp2HkvXek
🚨🚨BREAKING: Harvard has violated its agreement with student protestors. This betrayal will PREVENT 12 STUDENTS FROM GRADUATING and place 28 on probation or suspension. In the agreement reached to end the HOOP encampment, Garber promised to encourage Ad Boards to follow
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This is a little disingenuous. Brown students have been escalating for months prior to many other university encampments. They led the longest hunger strike since October and 41 students were arrested back in February for occupying a building and are still facing charges.
I still just can’t get over Brown students starting an encampment and declaring success after their administration said they’d consider a vote on divestment in OCTOBER like the student encampment members were celebrating it like they just ended the occupation itself
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We have some big, heartening news. Eighteen (!!) former ASA presidents have issued a joint letter to endorse the Resolution for Justice in Palestine now on the ASA ballot. The list, a veritable who's who of the profession, speaks to the broad buy-in for this resolution.🧵
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Women workers of United Garment Workers Union in Bangalore joined the Day of Action on Myanmar’s Resistance Day to call for #DecentWages #StopUnionBusting & #RespectWorkers! Read AFWA’s statement: https://t.co/xyXHv5IjwI
#WeStandWithMyanmar #WorkerSolidarity
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Went on @democracynow to beg people to see immigrant workers—like our fallen brothers who were working on the Key Bridge—as human beings. We are not your enemy. I'm sorry I can't respond to everyone's messages rn. Very tired & heart is very frayed. But we'll keep reporting ❤️✊🏽
Six immigrant workers are presumed dead after Tuesday's bridge collapse in Baltimore. Journalist @maximillian_alv says the disaster shows the crucial role of immigrants in many dangerous jobs. "We are not coming to this country to ruin it," he says. "We're workers just like you."
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Ever brutalized by an overtime shift…? Well, under a system that legalizes sleepless 24-hr shifts for women of color home care workers in NYC, how could the rest of us expect to be treated any better?! Workers will hunger strike for a week next Wed! For themselves and for us!
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Nearly 600 ASA members endorsed a principled ceasefire resolution. It will soon come up for a membership vote. Help us build support for the resolution and demand that ASA include the point on financial disclosure and military investments. Ceasefire now! @Soc4Pal
UPDATE: ASA Council responded & as expected they refused to endorse our resolution & plan to write their own. This spring members will vote between the two. HOWEVER, they also unilaterally struck the 2nd item on our resolution re: financial disclosure & military investments 1/
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Walmart reported $5.49B in profit for Q4 of 2023. The median salary at Walmart is $27,136. For every $1 the average Walmart employee makes, Walmart’s CEO makes $933. The U.S. Government and taxpayers are picking up the slack. Corporate greed cannot go unchecked!
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