Carolyn Fornoff

‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

Inspiring win by Indigenous land defenders, who stopped plans to privatize the Amazonian Tapajós river and expand it into a megacanal to facilitate the export of soy products by Cargill
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Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold.
2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested.

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Low Carbon Research Methods Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premiu...

Our book is published!!!

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There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!

Awful, painful, terrifying day in Mexico yesterday.
Here's a summary of the many many news I've been reading. I share it not as an expert, but to help myself make sense of things, so maybe it's useful for others who want to know what's going on but can't spent 5 hours reading the news.
It hurts.

I found this piece generative. As someone who initially hit the job market during the brief period in which you could get a job in DH, is co-editing a Debates in DH volume, trying to build support for “DH” on my campus, & co-teaching a class with Matt called “Books as Data,” I have thoughts!

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Book launch very soon! Join us🪴

How short is too short? What is the shortness sweet spot?

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

No way. And better bc this way he is an allusion and not reduced to a performance prop

"Baila sin miedo
Ama sin miedo"
made me tear up.
Go Benito 🔥💖

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
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Hundreds of Ohioans show support for Haitians, federal judge blocks TPS ending for Haitians • Ohio Capital Journal Hundreds of Ohioans gathered at a church in Springfield on Monday to show support for the Haitian community in Springfield.

BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.

Congrats, Cornell, and every other university that bowed down to the bully.

Abstract Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AntiAnte

introducing AntiAnte, a platform for critical thought into politics and culture in and across Latin American, Caribbean, and Hemispheric contexts antiante.org

Trilce A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collection that stretches the limits of human language and predicted the Surrealist movement of the 1920s and 3...

Trilce is a blazingly vivid revelation of what poetry can be, at once a love poem, a poem of erotic urgency and frustration, a poem of family life, of political fury, a lament for the dead, a work of intense privacy and an address to the world. www.nyrb.com/products/tri...

Friends in Spanish, Portuguese, and other language departments, do you offer a pro seminar for your grads? if so, do you have materials you'd be willing to share? Thank you!

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
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I much prefer the way the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls them "residents." That's what they are: residents standing up for their community

Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.

Read the full story here:
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this certainly contradicts the statement put out by the feds, as in it is completely and utterly different

ICE officers approached vehicle in manner counter to training, DHS official tells NBC News
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Sick to my stomach. Solidarity, Minneapolis 💔

1 hour ago Mariana Martinez Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela The death count from Saturday's attack has risen to 80, between civilians and members of security forces, according to a senior Venezuelan official. He added that the number could rise further.

NYT:

The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

The ears!!

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

It's like when he demolished the East Wing. No plan for the aftermath. Just an illegal show of power and a massive wake of rubble and destruction.