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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · 13h

"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-...

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 “translating” Gramsci’s geographical insights in the present. Watch the episode on YouTube...

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 24

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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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · Jul 17

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!

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

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Stefan Kipfer @skipfer.bsky.social · May 14

"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...

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,...

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jun 14

“Let me insist that ‘the academic’ and ‘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:

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jun 13

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 features—all designed to showcase the bold writing and thinking we’ve published for five decades.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · Jun 13

"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...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Jun 12

“If it is a “political” 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...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Jun 13

Walter Rodney: “I 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!!"

Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 13

RIP Walter Rodney, assassinated on this day 45 years ago.

Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.

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Graphic of Walter Rodney with a quote from his final speech: “What I am trying to say is simply this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all walks of life, and more particularly by the working class who are in the majority. And it is a sign of the times, a sign of the power of revolutionary transformation, when a street force member is developed into a fighting cadre in a political movement.”

Graphic c/o Josh McPhee https://justseeds.org/product/walter-rodney/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 13

"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...

How Labor Unions Came to Define the L.A. Immigration Protests

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AFT @aft.org · Jun 9

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

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · Jun 12

@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...

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...

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 13

“I salute Walter Rodney. If what he has tried to do is the act of ‘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 another—especially not intellectuals.”

-Stuart Hall

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

www.bostonreview.net

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 4

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.

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.

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · Jun 1

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...

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · May 24

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...

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 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American

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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · May 29

CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social explains the importance of employing a relational theorization to gain insights into American & Italian common histories & 'common disasters' in this absorbing episode of the podcast Conjuncture

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_X...

Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism | S4 Ep. 6

YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · May 28

You can also listen here:
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Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism by Conjuncture

Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Camilla Hawthorne about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the U.S. and Italy. This season of Conjuncture is co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation.Co...

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · May 28

"We see the same thing happening in the U.S., Italy, and everywhere fascism is rearing its head," geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of Conjuncture. Produced with @cheatherton.bsky.social + co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/jG_X1wOqVdY. 1/2

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · May 13

Great piece by Anna Feder overviewing the legal, digital security, and dox defense resources now curated at the @aaup.bsky.social Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's website. Post previously published at Academe Blog. Check it out.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/informatio...

Information Is the Antidote to Repression

Resources for fighting for academic freedom.

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