“Much of today’s advocacy around racial justice places the onus on individual actors and the private sector. We need collective action instead.”
Posted by The Guardian on Monday, March 8, 2021
After years of embracing the “post-racial” rhetoric of figures like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, mainstream Democrats are coming around to acknowledging how much the 1960s civil rights revolution left unfinished. And yet, years into a “great awokening” that has drawn attention to these issues, it’s worth asking whether anything is changing.
companies like Apple, where workers in the secretive Chinese complex that manufactures iPhones attracted global concern after a spate of suicides, just brought out a special edition $429 Black Unity Apple Watch that was marketed for Black History Month. Apple says: “The Black Unity Sport Band is inspired by the pan-African flag and made from soft, high-performance fluoroelastomer with a pin-and-tuck closure laser-etched with ‘Truth. Power. Solidarity.’” Where is the power or solidarity for the workers toiling in factories in China, one might wonder? Or for child workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo who toil and die in mines extracting raw materials like cobalt that are used in iPhones. One doesn’t hear anything about that kind of material injustice affecting the working class from the global south when corporations make their self-congratulatory PR statements around inclusion.
A 2020 paper, not surprisingly, finds that white workers are less likely to hold racist views if they’re in a union, and that white union members also tend to have greater support for not only universal social goods, but for policies like affirmative action.
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Tamaulipas massacre
They risked everything in search of a more dignified life in the US. But they ended up dead in the north of Mexico, a…
Posted by El País English Edition on Monday, February 22, 2021
Afghan in the Balkans
‘Police searched my baby’s nappy’: migrant families on the perilous Balkan route
“Out of a total of about 8,000 migrants in Bosnia, about 2,000 people are basically left to fend for themselves in abandoned buildings, squats, makeshift settlements and in forests,” Nicola Bay, the Danish Refugee Council’s Bosnia director, says. “These people include families, children and unaccompanied minors that have practically no shelter, no access to basic services and no access to proper healthcare.”
Gold Rush genocide
TIL of the California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction. from r/todayilearned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_genocide
https://www.history.com/news/californias-little-known-genocide
Wives and children of ISIS
Working with GLST 490 student on refugee and immigrants topic:
Possible topic:
The state of wives and children of ISIS fighters reflected in the media and social media (or something in that direction)
Possible assumption: their real condition is reported widely differently, mainly because of political and ideological gains.
You may want to find out some influential theories/practices by social workers engaged with refugees and juxtapose those practices theories with the materials provided by traditional and social media.
e.g.
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_SCS/ppvqcp/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2187514939
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_SCS/ppvqcp/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A418225414
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01MNPALS_SCS/ppvqcp/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A389729733
Is it possible, because of the Arabic spelling, we have different names for the camp?
https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2019/15-april-alhawl-camp-12-more-children-have-died-during-the
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/world/middleeast/islamic-state-families-syria.html
https://spectator.org/isis-brides-seek-to-return-to-the-west/
w the fact check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-spectator/
Social Media (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/GBasn9TChH4 (Sky News https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sky-news/ )
here is an interesting one:
w the fact check
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-gateway-pundit/
and the “yellow press” Daily Mail 😊
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6704603/Inside-refugee-camp-ISIS-brides-fled.html
Jordan vaccinate refugees
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised Jordanian authorities for including refugees in its national response plan and urged other countries to do the same. Jordan became the first country to vaccinate refugees against covid from r/worldnews
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/covid-19-jordan-first-country-world-vaccinate-refugees
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised Jordanian authorities for including refugees in its national response plan and urged other countries to do the same.
Russia ethnic cleansing in Georgia 2008
European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians following the ceasefire of the August 2008 war from r/worldnews
https://agenda.ge/en/news/2021/167
Georgia has won the 2008 war case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The court released its judgement earlier today which says that Russia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human rights during the conflict and carried out ethnic cleansing of Georgians.
The court said that Russia violated the following articles:
- The right to life (Article 2).
- Prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 3).
- The right to liberty and security (Article 5).
- The right to protection of private and family life (Article 8).
- Protection of property (Article 1 of Additional Protocol 1);
- Freedom of movement (Article 2 of Protocol No. 4).
Bosnia-Herzegovina and immigrants
With the EU having long since blocked off the Balkan Route, more and more migrants have become stranded in…
Posted by SPIEGEL International on Thursday, January 21, 2021
The World at War, A New Germany
Khmer Rouge genocide
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