⚠️ Sexual misconduct allegations in the International History Department at LSE

Please read and share this important article. Women have been silenced for far too long by an institution that should protect them.

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This new article by Järvinnen & Mik-Meyer on 'gendered service work in academia' made me go through all stages of grief on a loop and I think EVERYONE in academic should read it 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

'How to Survive a Coup' by Emily Fishbein Nu Nu Lusan

Four young women share stories of survival under military rule in Myanmar.

Waw Mee: 'I never expected I would have to do this kind of work, but I don’t have much of a choice.'
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Norway has a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth (i.e. oil) fund, the world's largest.
It also likes to position itself as a green nation.
This last week, it has
a) voted to allow deep-sea mining;
b) licensed sea-bed dumping of 170m tonnes of mining waste.
🇳🇴💚
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Research assistant wanted: The outsourcing of intellectual labour reveals academia’s colonial roots by Sreeparna

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RIP Abdullah CD, the former chairman & general secretary of the Communist Party of Malaya, who passed away this morning. He established the 10th Malay regiment of the CPM in Temerloh in 1949 and led the unit until the 1989 peace agreement between CPM & the govt of Malaysia.

The end of an era. Whether you love or despise the communist doctrine, history has to tell the truth. The truth is, the were willing to die for their ideology. They sought to create a world in opposition to capitalism. There was a Malay regiment in CPM. It's  true that communism…

Pictures by photojournalist Mar Naw capture life in resistance-controlled areas of Tanintharyi, in Myanmar’s deep south, where anti-junta groups have established parallel health and education systems but also allowed harmful mining operations to continue.
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'The maps are already ready' – as uttered by every colonial power ever

Army or prison: Forced recruitment in Myanmar’s towns and cities

The overstretched military is increasingly recruiting young men in urban areas against their will, often targeting them at night and threatening them with imprisonment.

Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/army-or-pri…

🔊 'Juntas Hand in Hand: Thai Establishment Enabling Burmese Military' - #Thailand4Burma 's Latest Brief 📜

Uncover Thai government's engagement with #Myanmar junta and its stance during the 2022-2023 crisis.

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For 18 years, around 100,000 Thai farmers have travelled to work as berry pickers in Finland and Sweden, believing it offered them an opportunity to earn good money. Instead, many came home empty-handed or in debt with the berry companies.

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GRAPHIC: #Myanmar #military carried out another massacre, killing at least 30 people, including 13 children in #Laiza #Kachin . Area under #KIA ethnic army. This the largest number of deaths in a single army attack in recent weeks (Khit Thit Media source) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Tariq Ali (Tariq Ali) on the uprising in Palestine:

'Israel is a nuclear state, armed to the teeth by the US. Its existence is not under threat. It’s the Palestinians, their lands, their lives, that are.'

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Lorna Finlayson (Lorna Finlayson) on academics and the plight of higher education:

'The uncomfortable truth is that academics have been complicit, and often instrumental, in bringing about the present predicament.'

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แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ให้นิยาม ‘ผู้ลี้ภัย’ หมายถึง กลุ่มคนที่เดินทางออกจากประเทศของตนเนื่องจากสงคราม ความรุนแรง การประหัตประหารหรือการละเมิดสิทธิมนุษยชนร้ายแรงอื่นๆ ไม่ว่าจะด้วยเหตุผลทางเชื้อชาติ สัญชาติ ศาสนา หรือความคิดเห็นทางการเมือง…

อีกอันที่ทำให้เกิดความเสี่ยงอาหารเป็นพิษ คือการละลายน้ำแข็งอาหารแช่แข็งจากช่องฟรีส
วิธีที่ผิด❌: เอาออกมาวางในอุณหภูมิห้องเฉยๆ หรือแช่ในน้ำร้อน/อุ่น
วิธีที่ถูก✅:ไมโครเวฟ, ละลายในตู้เย็นช่องปกติ, แช่หรือผ่านน้ำเย็น, ปรุงทันทีโดยไม่ต้องละลายน้ำแข็ง

นักวิชาการผู้ไม่เคยถือตัวและเย่อหยิ่ง นักวิชาการเพื่อคนทุกข์ยาก นักวิชาการประวัติศาสตร์ การเมือง และการเมืองภาคประชาชน

ด้วยจิตคาราวะ และขอน้อมส่งอาจารย์ด้วยความเคารพอย่างสูง

#นิธิเอียวศรีวงศ์

This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat.

99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

Wonderful

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