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UFW statement on increased federal activity

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Any federal actions designed to terrorize and separate farm worker communities is an attack on Californians and a dangerous waste of resources….
We call on every level of government to take every possible measure to protect immigrant workers and their families.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jun 11

Show, don’t tell. But if you want more words, full statement here: ufw.org/ufw-statemen...

We are aware of multiple federal immigration "enforcement" actions involving farm workers in multiple regions of California including those in Ventura, Kern, and Tulare counties. Any federal actio...

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Jun 8

Pilar and I published! We explore memory as a transformative force attentive to the complexities of power and justice regimes, and to the exclusions and silences that enter the historical record and institutionally curated representations of political violence. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Transformative Memory: Ways of Being Together in the Afterlives of Political Violence

ABSTRACT. As a global collective of artists, activists and scholars, the Transformative Memory International Network explores memory as a transformative fo

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you! A friend sent it over. Solved.

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · May 28

I am slightly aghast my uni library doesn’t have the journal Peacebuilding, and that I owe hundreds in fines and so cannot ask for interlibrary loans (I know). Could anyone help me with A. Lederach’s Youth Provoking Peace: An Intersectional Approach from 2018? Please? Heh heh.

ALT: a woman in a purple dress stands in a library

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Professor Brandon Hamber @brandonhamber.bsky.social · May 7

Amazing Transformative Memory International Network launch of the Vancouver Exhibit in collaboration with Butterflies in Spirit, a dance group raising awareness of violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. Include "Disappeared" by Irene MacWilliam @conflicttextiles.bsky.social

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Media With Sonic Racing Music @modernsonicmusc.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Apr 18

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Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social · Apr 2

Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social and Ketty Anyeko analyse the memory practices of families whose loved ones went missing during periods of political violence, and point to a more emancipatory potential for localization. 12/

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Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social · Mar 27

6️⃣ In “Difficult Stories that Haunt,” Ulrike Lühe and @erinbaines.bsky.social challenge Western empirical social science approaches that transform narratives of harm and abuse into “clean” and “manageable” data for research analysis.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC and the Vancouver Public Library - Pancouver

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Pancouver @pancouver.bsky.social · Mar 23

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC's Liu Institute and the Vancouver Public Library. More info in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/otoniya-j-ok...

Okot Bitek lived in the Vancouver area for more than 20 years before becoming an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston.

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Mar 8

To everyone fighting to make feminism a radical force for change again & fighting for radical change again: wishing you a furious, fabulous & feminist #IWD!

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Onur Bakiner @bakiner.bsky.social · Feb 28

I began to write this article 6 yrs before Musk's Hitler salute and AfD's electoral success. It's about why coming to terms with the past should be a perpetual process touching every aspect of life so that we stop, in Adorno's words, fascist tendencies within (not just against) democracy.

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Mar 1

youtu.be/xbyHD5GqKfs please watch this beautiful video collaboration on love for a grandfather and hope for a new generation by J Stevy and Farid Ranti. Indonesia 65 @ 60

Jason Ranti - 421 Official Video

YouTube video by LIB

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Mar 1

Great article Onur and just so important today. An honour to be in this SI with you.

Volume 19 Issue 1 | International Journal of Transitional Justice | Oxford Academic

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Onur Bakiner @bakiner.bsky.social · Feb 28

Here is the link to the special issue academic.oup.com/ijtj/issue/1... with @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @geoffdancy.bsky.social @erinbaines.bsky.social @ulrike-luehe.bsky.social and many other wonderful colleagues.

Publishes high quality, refereed articles in the rapidly growing field of transitional justice. Topics covered include truth commissions, universal jurisdiction, post-conflict social reconciliation, v...

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Mar 1

March 14, join us for panel discussion on zoom; Youth Protests, Gender Equality and Political Transitions: Insights from Bangladesh @rn-wps

www.cips-cepi.ca/event/youth-...

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Jan 10

“Difficult stories that haunt: towards a research otherwise in Transitional Justice”. Luhe and I look at how difficult stories refuse, demand, restore and make claims of us, calling for other ways of seeing, being and doing research in settings of mass violence. OA

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Kathy.G @kathytrendyprinter.bsky.social · Jan 1

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

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Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social · Dec 28

Those cat memes though…