Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
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π¨ WHY THIS STARBUCKS STRIKE IS DIFFERENT - @kimkelly.bsky.social
Reporting on the ground from the Red Cup Rally in Philly, Kim Kelly breaks down why this strike is so important & how it's different from other collective actions @sbworkersunited.org have taken against Starbucks.
@therealnews.com
17.11.2025 16:14 β π 353 π 137 π¬ 7 π 9
Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!
19.11.2025 18:16 β π 1007 π 238 π¬ 4 π 11
Iβm in San Juan, PR for the American Studies Association Conference and will be speaking about laborβs role in fighting fascism on a panel tomorrow. If youβre here, say hi :)
20.11.2025 16:56 β π 223 π 8 π¬ 4 π 2
Thrilled to be chairing panel with @kimkelly.bsky.social, Sofia Cutler, and Justin Akers Chacon on labor and the challenge of far right tomorrow at ASA. Hope to see you there!
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So excited to be chairing this panel with @kimkelly.bsky.social Justin Akers Chacon, and Sofia Cutler on "Labor History and the New Challenge of the Far Right," tomorrow, Fri. 11/21 at 8. If you'll be at ASA, hope to see you there!
20.11.2025 17:07 β π 18 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Please join us for a talk by Sofia GuimarΓ£es Cutler (Ph.D. candidate, Yale American Studies), "Last Mile: The Delivery Driver and the Logistics of Labor and Capitalism " next
Tues., Nov. 4th at 6:30 in Trinity Library. Free and open to the public. If you'll be in Hartford, hope to see you there!
28.10.2025 00:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Β« Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l'Γtat Β»
En septembre 1974, lors dβune manifestation Γ Londres, Stuart Hall prononΓ§a un discours en soutien Γ son camarade caraΓ―bΓ©en Walter Rodney, un intellectuel du Guyana alors persΓ©cutΓ© par les (β¦)
"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de lβΓtat/When we are all enemies of the state." I worked with translator Nathalie PrΓ©vost to publish the French translation of Stuart Hall's 1974 speech on Walter Rodney in @afriquexxi.bsky.social. afriquexxi.info/Quand-nous-s...
14.10.2025 13:33 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The point is to change it
Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Here, @sarasalem.bsky.social⬠answers as part of our latest blog series.
05.06.2025 10:03 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Columbia Universityβs agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat.
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Hundreds of higher ed workers have gathered together at Morehouse & Spelman for the @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute. Right now we are learning organizing skills to protect ourselves our campuses and our students!
17.07.2025 20:13 β π 35 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Pleased to share my new essay on Antonio Gramsci entitled, "The Southern Question and Subaltern Groups and Classes," just published in @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social, part of a symposium with Kate Crehan, Massimo Modonesi, & Marcus Green (DM for copy): www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrmx20/3...
08.07.2025 15:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβand why fascists fear ideas.
βLet me insist that βthe academicβ and βthe intellectualβ are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.β
Stuart Hall, in a recently discovered 1974 speech, introduced by @jordantcamp.bsky.social:
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We just rolled out a new website for our 50th anniversary!
We hope youβll check it out today and browse around to explore the new look and featuresβall designed to showcase the bold writing and thinking weβve published for five decades.
www.bostonreview.net
13.06.2025 16:30 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβand why fascists fear ideas.
"Today the legacies of both Hall and Rodney demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
13.06.2025 13:52 β π 22 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβand why fascists fear ideas.
βIf it is a βpoliticalβ act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.β
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
12.06.2025 16:28 β π 36 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1
Walter Rodney: βI do not believe that it is remotely possible in this country that the enemies of the people can extinguish and put out the humanity which resides in us. PEOPLES POWER, NO DICTATOR!!"
13.06.2025 15:27 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests
"Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...
13.06.2025 14:06 β π 2058 π 478 π¬ 21 π 11
This Saturday, AFT members & our allies across the country are taking to the streets in peaceful, nonviolent rallies.
Weβre standing up for what our communities need. Weβre standing together to defend democracy, expand opportunity and build a better future for all.
Join us: go.aft.org/nokings
09.06.2025 15:06 β π 57 π 28 π¬ 0 π 5
βI salute Walter Rodney. If what he has tried to do is the act of βan enemy,β then we are all enemies. When the lines of struggle are drawn in this way, men cannot stand aside, hesitating between one value-neutral hypothesis and anotherβespecially not intellectuals.β
-Stuart Hall
13.06.2025 14:19 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.
12.06.2025 16:46 β π 65 π 28 π¬ 3 π 1
A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
Really great piece @nytimes.com Magazine about the firing of Maura Finkelstein. Especially helpful in clarifying the very really differences between AAUP and FIRE (AF as collective vs. individual right). You know what side I'm on!! @aaup.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
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Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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Check out the newest episode of Conjuncture in which I speak with critical geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy. This season is co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/italy-the-us...
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US Aims to Abolish Birthright Citizenship: Italy Already Knows the Consequences
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled βProtecting the Meaning and Value of American
Look to Italy for a foreshadowing of the damaging consequences a rollback of birthright citizenship would have on American society as a whole, explains CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social in this coauthored piece
lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025...
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
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Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897) for OUP. Trying to write another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world. Bio: https://shorturl.at/wybsY
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
The union of the The Washington Post.
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Organize your store, get updates from our campaign, and sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge at bit.ly/m/SBWU
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art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Cultural studies researcher. I work on Colombia from within globalised & long-term critical approaches. Interested in media, feminist theories, decolonial critique, the far right, & the global flow of ideas. Posting in Spanish as @isisgiraldoa.bsky.social
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A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
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Organizing with AAUP
Scholarship on poetry and poetics / POETRY MAKES YOU HAPPEN forthcoming with UNC Press / https://independent.academia.edu/MoeLukas
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.π
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Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Assoc. Professor of History, University of Cambridge. Writer on the history of democracy. Hailing from Normal, Illinois