Michael Galant

Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.

Overwhelmed with pride and awe for my wife who dedicated countless hours and tears to this organizing effort.

She was laid off before this day could come, but her commitment hasn't waned a bit. Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊
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CEPR Sanctions Watch April 2025 Trump considers additional sanctions on Cuba, announces talks with Iran, and sets conditions for lifting sanctions on Syria.

NEW in the April #SanctionsWatch:
Republicans consider Cuba travel & remittance ban
US & Iran begin nuclear talks
US outlines conditions for Syria sanctions relief
Poll finds US majority reject sanctions that harm civilians

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CEPR Sanctions Watch March 2025 Stay informed about the evolving sanctions landscape impacting Afghanistan, North Korea, Russia, Syria and more this March.

@michael-galant.bsky.social and Pedro Labayen have the latest updates, showing frozen assets and a drastic cut in foreign aid, deepening Afghanistan’s economic woes. More in this month’s #SanctionsWatch.

Economic Sanctions: A Root Cause of Migration Examine the role of economic sanctions in shaping migration patterns and their significant impact on affected populations.

Migrants should be welcomed to the US. But they also shouldn't be starved into leaving their homes in the first place.

Economic sanctions are incompatible with reducing migration to the US.

Read the issue brief here: cepr.net/publications... (7/7)

In 2022, the CBP encountered more Cubans than any other nationality besides Mexico. Shocking for such a small country.

Venezuela is the single fastest-growing country of birth of immigrants in the US since "maximum pressure" began in 2017. (6/7)

In Venezuela, "maximum pressure" sanctions were the leading cause of an economic crisis equivalent to THREE great depressions.

Per CEPR Senior Fellow Francisco Rodriguez, >4 million of the 7 million migrants that left Venezuela did so because of sanctions. (5/7)

In the case of Cuba, Trump-Biden sanctions have fueled a humanitarian crisis that led to the emigration of TEN PERCENT of the population in just 2 years. (4/7)

Now, first-of-its-kind research by Jerg Gutmann, Pascal Langer, and Matthias Neuenkirch confirms the logical conclusion:

US-EU sanctions increase migration from targeted countries by >20%!! (3/7)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

We already know for a fact that:
(1) Adverse economic conditions fuel migration.
(2) Economic sanctions can have devastating economic and humanitarian consequences. (2/7)
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Economic Sanctions: A Root Cause of Migration Examine the role of economic sanctions in shaping migration patterns and their significant impact on affected populations.

The evidence is clear: economic sanctions catastrophically harm civilians, which in turn fuels migration to the US.

NEW issue brief from me and Alex Main for @ceprdc.bsky.social 🧵 (1/7)
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Giving Bluesky another try. Twitter is just nazis and thirst traps, and I'm too weak to break free from the prison of social media altogether.

For Truly Radical Filmmaking, Look to Third Cinema During the late 1960s, two leftist Argentine filmmakers wrote a manifesto that called for a new type of filmmaking known as “Third Cinema.” This movement led to the creation of some of the most ra...

Barbie, Oppenheimer — I hear we’re all fighting about movie politics so I wrote about the great tradition of radical, anti-colonial filmmaking that is Third Cinema

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/third-cinema-global-south-film-anti-imperialism-decolonization

Tightening Syria sanctions will only heighten civilian suffering Nearly 10,000 Syrians have died as a result of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Turkey-Syria border area in February. As tragic as that figure is, the toll might have been even higher i…

The Assad Anti-Normalization Act would “punish millions of innocent Syrians.”

“The Biden administration should be lifting economic sanctions on Syria, not imposing new ones. The Syrian people have suffered enough.”
https://t.co/kZa2wC26m5

Top economists say Sen. Menendez spreading fake news on sanctions - Responsible Statecraft A new letter with more than 50 signatories implores the lawmaker to stop using his power to maintain a cruel US policy in Venezuela.

Bob Menendez claims sanctions aren’t to blame for economic problems in 🇨🇺 & 🇻🇪

Today, 50+ leading scholars including Jayati Ghosh, Ha-Joon Chang, Jomo, and Martin Guzman told him to “stop spreading the false narrative”
https://t.co/tL13dGdysm

Gonna start posting like this to see if it works here too

Biden nominates controversial former Trump-appointee to Public Diplomacy Commission | CNN Politics President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States Advisor...

Nothing to see here, just Biden nominating Elliot fucking Abrams
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

Ben Gadha, Kaboub, Koddenbrock, Mahmoud, & Samba Sylla: Africa's Money in an NIEO Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla on the recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies — and the ways that African nations are resistin...

Everyone should read Economic and Monetary Sovereignty In 21st Century Africa. Very glad to be able to run this excerpt.
https://progressive.international/blueprint/3d6b855b-c0ff-474f-b041-096a9c6a51bd-ben-gadha-kaboub-koddenbrock-mahmoud-samba-sylla-africas-money-in-an-nieo/en/

Just bought a paper snowflake from a neighborhood kid - price DOUBLED over the course of the conversation. Money supply can’t explain that. “Greedflation” is real. Isabella Weber vindicated.

Just joined. Who’s gonna claim the first viral neo-Andean architecture post