@joshmayer.bsky.social
Community-collaborative researcher studying settler colonialism, imperialism, and Afro-Indigenous freedom struggles in Nicaragua and its diaspora. Assistant Prof. at UConn. Fellow at the Oakland Institute. He/him.
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I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
It adds to the sadness of the moment to hear so-called liberals keep saying, "This isn't America." Everything the US power structure is doing they've already tested on Natives, enslaved people, and others "America" sees as foreign or insufficiently human. Are you libs being ignorant like the right?
People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because
surprised to hear UConn is not allowing AAUP to rally on campus for the Higher Ed Day of Action because of its so-called noise policy. we are literally trying to “exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities” www.dayofactionforhighered.org
Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia grad student whose visa was revoked forcing a "self deportation", was scheduled to present their research at the AAG meeting next week. This is an outrageous attack on our colleague and on geographic thought. Share and sign the statement below.
In light of this injustice, it’s important to point out that Northwestern has been harboring a literal Nazi on its faculty for decades, Holocaust denier Arthur Butz. NU has jumped through hoops to defend Butz’s “free speech,” but fires faculty members who speak out against genocide.
Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com
Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.
Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
This always has been and always will be Denali.
I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.
I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.
They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.
DHS's reasoning reflects the absurd, arbitrary nature of the US immigration system. In some cases, DHS said their convictions—from the political prosecutions that made them political prisoners!—made them inadmissible to the US. In others, DHS said their fear of return to Nicaragua wasn't credible.
The way universities have allied themselves with the most repressive and evil of all forces is truly scary.
Analysis | Why do Canadian mining companies own most of the mines on the African continent? We haven't asked anyone and we're certainly not asking now
Brazilian prosecutors asked the Amazonas state government to suspend carbon projects in 21 conservation units. According to the lawsuit, the government had failed to consult local communities.
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BREAKING — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during Israel's assault on Gaza.
❗️The measure to repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska is now trailing — by 192 votes statewide.
The roughly 3.9K ballots counted today broke for the 'no' by 29%. (About as many more ballots remain, probably a little more.)
This won't change the Nicaraguan govt's behavior. I'm also not yet sure how broad a precedent was set. But the decision recognizes the validity of the Creole territorial claim and recognizes the state's failure to stop colonization. This may be a strong tool in a different political moment.
Among other things, Nicaragua was ordered to title the Bluefields Creole community's full territory and protect the Bluefields Creole and Rama-Kriol territories from colonization. Elections of parallel communal governments violated the political rights of the Rama and Kriol/Creole peoples.
Overwhelming decision for the Rama and Kriol/Creole peoples in the Inter-American Court today. Nicaragua is responsible for violating their political, territorial, and procedural rights in the process of pursuing the canal project. Ordered to halt the canal project and protect Black/Indig. rights.
The announcement of the decision in Rama and Kriol Peoples v. Nicaragua has just begun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=px2h...
The imperialism dyad (US/Global North–Nicaragua) accelerates the settler colonialism dyad (Nicaraguan settler state–Rama and Kriol peoples). Were it not for US imperialism, the entrepreneurial settler state would have less motivation to expropriate Black & Indigenous lands.
Another part of this story: In my conversations with senior Sandinista officials, they acknowledged that the canal would be a disaster. But they said it was the least bad way to generate the revenues needed to keep up with debt servicing while pursuing social spending.
This case was my entry point to community-collaborative work with the Rama and Kriol peoples. I can't express adequate gratitude to the interlocutors and friends who have allowed me to accompany, learn from, and support them in this work these past 10 years.
The Nicaraguan state will refuse to recognize or comply with this decision, like other recent Inter-American Court decisions. But the case is important to many of my Rama and Kriol/Creole friends as an archive and symbol of their ongoing resistance and a potential tool for future battles.
Today, the Inter-American Court will rule on the legality of the process to approve the canal project, but it also has the opportunity to lay out the substantive requirements of consultation processes and to require free, prior, and informed consent for projects in Black and Indigenous territories.