Erin Michaels

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

THIS is what power looks like. Starbucks baristas are standing tall, with their shoulders back and their heads high, and they’re showing the world what it looks like to demand a fair contract.

At SEIU, we see you, we back you, and we’ll be there with you @sbworkersunited.org every step of the way.

Meet the Aunties Behind Zohran Mamdani's Historic Campaign The mayoral candidate's meteoric rise was fueled by older immigrant women—long-time, experienced organizers who are often overlooked

"Immigrant women have always been the quiet architects of change in NYC. Jewish and Italian garment workers led strikes... Chinese immigrant women organized tenant associations ... Puerto Rican and Dominican mothers built tenant unions ...Caribbean women transformed the city's care economy"

Gene Nichol, a professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Newby had essentially turned the court into an arm of the Republican Party.

“Newby... has become the chief justice who destroyed the North Carolina Supreme Court as an impartial institution.”

‘This community is not the enemy’: Hillsboro teachers form neighborhood ICE watch ICE arrested a parent near Eastwood Elementary School last Monday. Teachers and parents have been patrolling the neighborhood every morning since.

In lieu of prepping for the day's lessons, teachers are patrolling the streets to protect children and families from the terror of ICE and MAGA's secret police.

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Unwritten Policies Sow Faculty Fears. Are They Enforceable? A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced?

A growing number of universities are using spoken "policies" to scrub transgender identity from course content and scare faculty members into compliance with legally fuzzy rules that violate academic freedom. More at @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

#AcademicSky

A lot going on here but, every Social Studies teacher knows that the number of school leaders and decision makers who dismiss and have dismissed Social Studies content/standards as not their biggest issues for decades is directly correlated with *how we got here*

Oh High Point, you rascal

I don't know the author of this storybook about the Portland Frog but it's hilarious and I'd gladly have it read to me every night. 🐸😆

there's the brandon we voted for.

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good job, America!

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Sociology professor jobs in Copenhagen 🇩🇰!

Repost: We're hiring! Open rank. At least 2 profs.

More details 👇

Congrats! Sounds so fun!

We're hiring! The Labor and Employment Relations school and Economics department at the University of Illinois are recruiting for a junior labor economist. See ad for details, or reach out with questions.

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Cracks are showing in the resistance

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

Portlanders 💗

“This “compact” is more like an invitation to borrow money from the mob, with substantial control and future penalties assured.”

Everyone in academia should read this story. I don't know Mark personally but I know his work (wishing him and his family safe passage out of the US)! 👇

Can’t even begin to express what this legend meant to the LA Labor & Immigrant Rights Movements, UCLA, and me… All I know is that there’s a Nonviolent Direct Action being organized in Heaven right now! Rest in power brother Kent! 🙏🏽💔✊🏽 #KentWong #Presente

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

Who started this idea that men are broken? It seems they’re just angry about the people they used to be able to boss around not letting them do that anymore.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.