Ana Velasco

A chacina do Rio como clímax das narrativas da extrema-direita - Le Monde Diplomatique A eficácia da Operação no Rio de Janeiro no combate ao crime foi nenhuma: o número 2 do Comando Vermelho, alvo declarado, conseguiu escapar.

-> A operação – filmada, noticiada e defendida como um ato de coragem – teve como efeito fazer a extrema-direita, que estava acuada e sem narrativa diante os afagos de Trump a Lula, recuperar o protagonismo.

‘There is no law here’: Deadly Brazil police raid failed to capture or kill gang leaders The governor of Rio de Janeiro has touted the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history as a success, but none of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid.

-> None of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid.

-> Santos argued the raid involving 2,500 police officers "showed that the state holds the monopoly on the use of force."

Mahmood Mamdani: "In the world we grew up in, the idea was that the wider society could claim free speech but only the university could claim academic freedom. And academic freedom was broader and stronger and deeper than free speech. Now it’s the reverse."

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

Great read 💥

"Some people say this; however, others say this."

"What you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised."

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET.

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).

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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.

Running for Alejandro (español abajo) Dear friends, Alejandro Arcos Catalán had been the mayor of Chilpancingo, capital of the state of Guerrero, for just six days when he was murdered. The 43-year-old was elected to off...

For those following the 💔 story of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo publicly assassinated Saturday, an account of what it's like to live in increasingly violent criminal governance - from Chilpancingo, Guerrero after mayor Arcos brutally murdered & displayed www.thetroubledregion.com/running-for-...

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Líder comunitário relata situação no Complexo do Alemão: “Crianças estão vendo os 60 corpos” Favelas da zona norte do Rio de Janeiro foram alvo de megaoperação policial contra o Comando Vermelho (CV) nesta terça-feira

heartbroken for Complexo do Alemão. end this global death machine www.correiodopovo.com.br/not%C3%ADcia...

Abraços, querida.

Two colleagues interviewed me for a new podcast series on the second Trump Presidency. We discussed some of the 'gender politics' of the current moment and how they are entangled with the politics of race, fascism and (settler) empire. The episode is titled 'Tradwives and Techbros'

Si a mi me matan, tu vive;. Vive y mi historia recuerda: vende mis cosas y compra Algo de mecate y tela, y construye un papalote blanco, con la cola extensa, para que un niño de Gaza desde la tierra lo vea. si su padre partió sin despedirse siquiera, Ni aun de su propia carne, que tu papalote sea como ur angel que le traiga: su amor paternal de vuelta. Si a mi me matan, tu vive, Se la esperanza y recuerda Refaat Alareer Asesinado en Gaza el 6 diciembre 2023

Refaat Al Areer’s “If I must die” poem on the streets of Mexico city

Like the Hezbollah training camps back in the day. There should be an archive of these loony (yet potentially dangerous) reports about the cartels somewhere.

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

📅 Save the date!

The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:

Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide

🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw

More details to follow.

The New Age of Genocide With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the quest...

Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived!
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).

How Audre Lorde Studied Berlin’s Warnings and Silences Less than four decades later, the same forces that frustrated the African-American feminist poet continue to dominate German politics

Here's an insightful piece about Lorde confronting Germany's silences, drawing from the archive and painting some resonances with today.

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Today is German Unity Day, celebrating reunification of East & West. In 1992, Audre Lorde co-wrote a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, decrying how unification is used to reinforce the ideal of "Germany for Germans," producing racist violence. Apt today, with police cadets chanting "Ausländer raus!"

Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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Similar developments were taking place in the Latin American frontiers as the "Indian Wars" ended in the US.

Mexico was immersed in a "war" with the Yaquis in the Northwest.

Mazocoba is the most famous "battle".

January 1900.

Like Wounded Knee, it was also a massacre amidst a genocide.

The Time for Accountability is Now: Criminal Complaint against German Government Officials for Aiding and Abetting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza - The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) % Berlin, September 19, 2025 - A criminal complaint against German Government officials and arms trade executives was filed today by a collective of lawyers in Berlin with the support of the European Le...

a criminal complaint was filed against numerous German politicians today by several NGOs for abetting genocide in Gaza – and as far as I can tell it was entirely ignored by German media
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Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

Germany knew - every step of the way.

Critical perspectives article: "Pieces of the Same Puzzle: Men, Masculinities, and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda" by Philipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis. Article begins: As we mark 25 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the place of this landmark agenda on the global political stage has never been more fragile, nor more fraught. In the same breath, the importance of paying careful and critical attention to men, masculinities, and their positioning in and relationship to the WPS agenda — and peace and security writ large — has never been more apparent, nor more urgent. By calling attention to women’s diverse roles in and experiences of armed conflict within the world’s paramount security body, the unanimous adoption of UNSCR 1325 by the Security Council was groundbreaking.

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For our an upcoming Critical Perspectives on UNSCR 1325, Philipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis consider where men and masculinities fit into the women peace and security agenda in their article "Pieces of the Same Puzzle."

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One Day, Not Everyone Will Be Against This - Rolling Stone MENA Gaza will bury the idea that we all eventually come to be against the great Evils of our time.

"There is too much invested in maintaining that this is not what it is. There’s too much at stake to admit, fully, that this is what it is. And that’s still assuming that those who wield power in this world even care."

🖋️ Sana Saeed

‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.

If a proposed rare-earth minerals mine goes forward in northern Sweden, it could ruin the lives of Sami Indigenous herders whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.

This is who the Labour gov is arresting.

This is who the Labour government calls terrorists.

Hundreds more of them.

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We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here:
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