Category: International Affairs

William Joiner Institute Writer’s Workshop

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30th Annual Writers’ Workshop Festival and Celebration – June 26th – June 30th 2017 Applications are still open for the 2017 William Joiner Institute’s 30th Annual Writers’ Workshop Festival. Study with award winning poets and writers and participate in a writer’s community like no other! Writers with diverse interests and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Space is limited, apply today! This year’s Writers’ Workshop Festival will celebrate 30 years of community and creative responses to war and continue our tradition of focusing on the intersections of writing, war, social justice, and peace making. Workshop faculty include Vietnam and Iraq veterans Read More …

Repost: Why Our Universities Must Provide Sanctuary to Undocumented Immigrants

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by Alecia Richards | On November 16, students at more than 80 universities, colleges and high schools nationwide staged walk-outs, sit-ins and rallies urging their administrations to protect immigrants at risk of deportation by the incoming Donald Trump administration. The nationwide protests, which took place under the banner of the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, called on universities to join the ranks of cities that limit their cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  [Read full article]

Dangerous Partnership: The Academy, Anthropology, and U.S. Military Occupation and Invasion

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Dear Colleague, I am an anthropologist who has been working to expose the U.S. role in supporting last year’s military coup and its resulting administrations and policies in Honduras. Here are several of the articles I have written over the past year: Message Control: Field Notes on Washington’s Golpistas WOLA vs. Honduran Democracy Saving Honduras? I write to let you know about a dangerous new turn in the use of the academy, and of anthropology in particular, to legitimate U.S. military occupation and invasion of Latin American countries, and to ask for your help in challenging it. The threat in Read More …

University of Puerto Rico Student Strikes

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The silence in the English-language press about the student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico stands in stark contrast to the roar produced by the growing number of students who have moved to shut down UPR to protest state disinvestment from public education. The basic terms of the strike: As the state legislature has systematically diverted money from Puerto Rico’s only public university system, UPR has been left with a $100 million budget shortfall. In response, the Board of Trustees wants  to make up that gap on the backs of the students, more than 60% of whom qualify for Read More …

What Next–More Partitions?

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A recent edition of India’s left-liberal daily, The Hindu (3.30.2010), included an op-ed piece, concerning yet another demonstration by Hyderabad’s Osmania University students, this time off campus, in front of the home of Kanch Ilaiah, the op-ed writer. The students were Telananga separatists, protesting his non-support for their cause because he came out in support of the region’s “Tribals” who are seeking their own state within the current debate over partitioning the state of Andhra Pradesh into two states. If the tribals have their way, Andhra Pradesh would be divided three-ways, with the proposed “Many Seema” biting into both the Read More …