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Jordan T. Camp

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Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.

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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.

21.11.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1579    πŸ” 480    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 28
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🚨 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€” πŸ‘ 353    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9
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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€” πŸ‘ 1007    πŸ” 238    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11

I’m in San Juan, PR for the American Studies Association Conference and will be speaking about labor’s role in fighting fascism on a panel tomorrow. If you’re here, say hi :)

20.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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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!

20.11.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Β« Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l'Γ‰tat Β» En septembre 1974, lors d’une 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 (…)

"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l’État/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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Alex Loftus about the climate crisis, right-wing populism, and β€œtranslating” Gramsci’s geographical insights in the present. Watch the episode on YouTube...

"The environment is woven into the rise of the right-wing movement," Alex Loftus tells me in our interview to launch Season 5 of the Conjuncture podcast. Episode produced w/ support of Trinity Social Justice Institute & @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/alex-loftus-...

08.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Columbia University’s 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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24.07.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 545    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 19
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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€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump tariffs and US Imperialism Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists,...

"Trump tariffs and US Imperialism". Gillian Hart unpacks the various camps struggling to define the meaning and objective of these tariffs within the Trump regime. africasacountry.com/2025/05/trum...

14.05.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβ€”and why fascists fear ideas.

β€œLet me insist that β€˜the academic’ and β€˜the intellectual’ are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.”

Stuart Hall, in a recently discovered 1974 speech, introduced by @jordantcamp.bsky.social:

14.06.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We just rolled out a new website for our 50th anniversary!

We hope you’ll check it out today and browse around to explore the new look and featuresβ€”all designed to showcase the bold writing and thinking we’ve published for five decades.

www.bostonreview.net

13.06.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβ€”and 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€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβ€”and why fascists fear ideas.

β€œIf it is a β€œpolitical” 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.”

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

12.06.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Walter Rodney: β€œI 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€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 2058    πŸ” 478    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11
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This Saturday, AFT members & our allies across the country are taking to the streets in peaceful, nonviolent rallies.

We’re standing up for what our communities need. We’re 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€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
ISA Statement of Grave Concern Regarding Attacks on Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in the US, and in Support of Members at Risk The International Studies Association (ISA) is an academic association with 7000 members from 80 countries committed to the study of world politics. Its annual conference and regional meetings bring t...

@isanet.bsky.social Has released a really great statement
"Grave Concern Regarding Attacks on Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in the US, and in Support of Members at Risk" @aaup.bsky.social
www.isanet.org/News/ID/6602...

12.06.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI salute Walter Rodney. If what he has tried to do is the act of β€˜an enemy,’ 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 anotherβ€”especially not intellectuals.”

-Stuart Hall

13.06.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβ€”and why fascists fear ideas.

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodneyβ€”and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

12.06.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

06.06.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

04.06.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12251    πŸ” 4237    πŸ’¬ 409    πŸ“Œ 205
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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...

01.06.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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 β€œProtecting 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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